10.6084/m9.figshare.5446678.v1 Data-science Digital-science Data-science Digital-science Digital Science Digital Science GRID release 2017-09-26 Digital Science 2017 Persistent identifiers CC0 Institutional identifiers Library and Information Studies Information Systems 2017-09-27 14:18:42 Dataset https://digitalscience.figshare.com/articles/dataset/GRID_release_2017-09-26/5446678 <div>A database of over 78,000 research institutes with persistent identifiers.</div><div><br></div><div>New institutes added from:</div><div>- Various sources from the United States, European Union and South Africa</div><div><br></div><div>QA:</div><div>- Spot checks of institutes for correctness</div><div><br></div><div>Note: the geonames information is from geonames.org and licensed as CC-BY 3.0.</div>