Hi Guiseppe,
Figshare offers DataCite DOIs, which are minted in the US through the
California Digital Library's EZID service. Also I believe Figshare offer
some flexibility in the requirements you mention.
best wishes,
Angus
On 11/03/2015 17:14, Antony Corfield [awc] wrote:
> Hi Ricky, we're advising that researchers deposit in repositories recommended by funders or in Pure. I'm not sure figshare can meet many of the requirements (e.g. where data is stored, upload/download times, metadata etc.). Datacite gives you a DOI (via BL), pure and simple..
> Antony
>
> On 11 Mar 2015, at 16:55, Giuseppe Sollazzo wrote:
>
>> Hi Ricky,
>> we are still evaluating what to do so cannot comment much about the real use cases, but we're considering FigShare and Datacite.
>> You know Datacite. Figshare offers many extra functions that go way beyond FOI (hosting, hosting + Arkivum, statistics, data linking, etc.), which might be suitable in a context where these applications/features are absent and not easily implementable in the corporate environment.
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