DataCite's new Membership Model and new Fees Structure will come into effect on January 1st 2021. For customers outside ETH Zurich, this is quite a big change. They will get a new contract and will need to agree to DataCite’s terms and conditions. Due to the new membership model, some organizations who have been registering with us for a long time, will leave by the end of the year to become DataCite members themselves. The model also implies financial changes. In the future, DataCite and not the DOI Desk will set the fees. Moreover, as DataCite is a community and needs to be sustainable in the long run, DataCite will increase their fees. For our small customers, who only register a handful of DOIs yearly, we are working on a plan on how to keep them going without a big financial burden. We are going to talk to customers concerned individually.
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