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| Producer | CERN (Switzerland) |
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| Languages | English, French |
| Access | |
| Cost | Free |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Miscellaneous |
| Record depth | Index, abstract, full text |
| Format coverage | Journals, conference papers, research papers, data sets, research software, report |
| Links | |
| Website | zenodo |
Zenodo is a general-purpose open repository developed under the European OpenAIRE program and operated by CERN.[1][2][3] It allows researchers to deposit research papers, data sets, research software, reports, and any other research related digital artefacts. For each submission, a persistent digital object identifier (DOI) is minted, which makes the stored items easily citeable.[4]
Characteristics
[edit]Zenodo was launched on 8 May 2013, as the successor of the OpenAIRE Orphan Records Repository[5] to let researchers in any subject area comply with any open science deposit requirement absent an institutional repository. It was relaunched as Zenodo in 2015 to provide a place for researchers to deposit datasets;[6] it allows the uploading of files up to 50 GB.[7][8]
It provides a DOI to datasets[9] and other submitted data that lacks one to make the work easier to cite and supports various data and license types. One supported source is GitHub repositories.[10] Zenodo also provides researchers with further features, such as the option to publish files with an embargo[11], meaning that only metadata will be shown until the end of the embargo period.
Zenodo is supported by CERN "as a marginal activity", also receiving financial contributions via the CERN & Society Foundation, and hosted on the high-performance computing infrastructure that is primarily operated for the needs of high-energy physics.[12]
Zenodo is run with Invenio (a free software framework for large-scale digital repositories), wrapped by a small extra layer of code that is also called Zenodo.[13]
History
[edit]In 2019, Zenodo announced a partnership with the fellow data repository Dryad to co-develop new solutions focused on supporting researcher and publisher workflows as well as best practices in software and data curation.[15]
As of 2021, Zenodo's publicly available statistics[16] for open items reported a total of over 45 million "unique views" and over 55 million "unique downloads".[17]
Also in 2021, Zenodo reported it had crossed 1 petabyte in hosted data and 15 million yearly visits.[18]
In 2026, Zenodo confirmed that records from users submitting files without an academic affiliation may be de-ranked and not indexed by external search engines[19]. The same applies to users who have not been manually verified by Zenodo.[19]
References
[edit]- ↑ Suber, Peter (2012). "10 self help". Open Access (the book). MIT. ISBN 978-0-262-51763-8.
- ↑ "How to make your own work open access". Harvard Open Access Project.
- ↑ "Zenodo open data repository (CERN)". European University Institute. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
- ↑ Pujol Priego, Laia; Wareham, Jonathan (2019). Zenodo: open science monitor case study. European Commission. Directorate General for Research and Innovation. doi:10.2777/298228. ISBN 9789279965524.
- ↑ Purcell, Andrew (8 May 2013). "CERN and OpenAIREplus launch new European research repository". Science Node. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ↑ "Zenodo Launches!". OpenAIRE. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
- ↑ "Zenodo – FAQ". Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ↑ Sicilia, Miguel-Angel; García-Barriocanal, Elena; Sánchez-Alonso, Salvador (2017). "Community Curation in Open Dataset Repositories: Insights from Zenodo". Procedia Computer Science. 106: 54–60. doi:10.1016/j.procs.2017.03.009. hdl:11366/532.
- ↑ Herterich, Patricia; Dallmeier-Tiessen, Sünje (2016). "Data Citation Services in the High-Energy Physics Community". D-Lib Magazine. 22. doi:10.1045/january2016-herterich.
- ↑ "Making Your Code Citable". GitHub. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
- ↑ "Zenodo - Research. Shared". about.zenodo.org. Retrieved 15 July 2026.
- ↑ "Zenodo Infrastructure". Retrieved 30 January 2019.
- ↑ "GitHub – zenodo/Zenodo: Research. Shared". GitHub. 23 July 2019.
- ↑ "Zenodo FAQ - Where does the name Zenodo come from?". support.zenodo.org. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ↑ "Funded Partnership Brings Dryad and Zenodo Closer". blog.zenodo.org. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- ↑ "Zenodo help: Statistics". Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ↑ "Zenodo most viewed items". Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ↑ "Hardening our service". blog.zenodo.org. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
- 1 2 "Search exclusion bug applied despite official institutional email and research". github.com. 2026.
External links
[edit]- Official website
Media related to Zenodo at Wikimedia Commons
