Dear Members, Greetings. Please find below an announcement from DataCite regarding an upcoming webinar on “DataCite Membership Essentials: How Research Organizations Can Advance Open Research.” This may be of interest to librarians, research administrators, and others involved in scholarly communication and open science initiatives. Members interested in participating may follow the details provided below. Best regards, Francis Jayakanth ------------------------------------ The DataCite message follows. From: Paul Vierkant Date: 05 May 2026 Email: paul.vierkant@datacite.org Dear colleagues, The DataCite member community is growing, and we invite you to join us! We’re holding a Membership Essentials webinar on May 7 for research organizations to learn more about membership options and how they can use DataCite services to make their research outputs and activities more open and discoverable. DataCite’s updated membership model provides an opportunity to align institutional participation with the long-term sustainability of shared, community-driven infrastructure that benefits the broader research ecosystem. The webinar is for all organizations interested in joining the DataCite community. During the event, we will introduce the available membership pathways, discuss why we’re moving away from a DOI-based pricing model to a collective funding approach, and share examples of how DataCite member organizations are contributing to and benefiting from open infrastructure for research. DataCite staff will be present for Q&A, and a webinar recording will be made available afterwards. Register for the webinar: https://datacite.org/event/datacite-membership-essentials/ Read the announcement: https://doi.org/10.5438/gc07-ah64 Please feel free to share this announcement within your networks. Sincerely, Paul Vierkant Paul Vierkant | Outreach Manager | DataCite he/him/his | Central European time<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/germany/berlin> E: paul.vierkant@datacite.org<mailto:paul.vierkant@datacite.org> | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4448-3844 W: datacite.org<https://datacite.org/> | Blog<https://datacite.org/blog/> | Bluesky<https://bsky.app/profile/datacite.org> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/datacite> | Mastodon<https://openbiblio.social/@datacite> Support Desk<mailto:support@datacite.org> | Support Site<https://support.datacite.org/> A: DataCite -- Welfengarten 1B, 30167 Hannover, Germany