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Persistent identifiers

Valentine's Day in Vilnius

vilnius.jpg Anyone who will be near Lithuania this Valentine's Day (February 14, 2012) should try to register for The Value of Unique Scholarly Identifiers to Academics, Institutions and Countries.

Persistent people finder

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Trove's people search aims to provide biographical information about significant people and organisations, and map their relationships to other parties-thus providing not only facts about significant people, but also context.

DOIs on tap

ands.jpg Researchers in Australia will soon be able to apply for a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for their data, as the Australian National Data Service gears up to start issuing them. A pilot project on data citation will be underway very soon, with a couple of institutions involved in testing the service.

Be persistent

With the increasing availability of research data for sharing, the need for reliable ways of finding and citing datasets has increased. Enter DataCite, an international organisation which aims to: