Dear Members, Greetings. This is a gentle reminder about the upcoming webinar announced by DataCite on: “DataCite Membership Essentials: How Research Organizations Can Advance Open Research.” The webinar may be of interest to librarians, research administrators, and professionals involved in scholarly communication, research data management, and open science initiatives. Members interested in participating may kindly refer to the details shared in the earlier announcement below and register accordingly. Best regards, Francis Francis Jayakanth ________________________________ The DataCite message follows. From: Paul Vierkant Date: 08 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 members ​ 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 DataCite's Social media posts : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/datacite_datacite-membership-essentials-datacite-activity-7457448470493356032-b7-D?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAATj3wABfagKzteCldC1xkFyLlG3ukQeszI https://bsky.app/profile/datacite.org/post/3ml4fdtace222 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