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Zenodo DOI

Zenodo is a service to create citations (as Digital Object Identifiers) for software, data, and other artifacts.

CERN, an OpenAIRE partner and pioneer in open source, open access and open data, provided this capability [Open Data policy/catch-all repository] and Zenodo was launched in May 2013.

Creating a DOI for a github repo

See https://coderefinery.github.io/github-without-command-line/doi/

Briefly

  1. on zenodo
    1. initiate connection with github
    2. enable the github repo on zenodo
  2. on github
    1. create a release
  3. copy generated DOI to readme, manuscript, etc

Tutorial instructions used sandbox. When you're comfortable and want the real DOI, remove sandbox from the url.