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Please pay attention to configure the property DATACITE_HOST. Per default it is set to the DataCite test server. To reserve real DOIs you probably will have to change it to mds.datacite.org. Ask your registration agency, if you're not sure about the correct address.

DSpace should send updates to DataCite whenever meta data of an item changes. To do so you have to change the dspace.cfg again. You should remove them comments in front of the two following properties or add them to the dspace.cfg:

event.consumer.doi.class = org.dspace.identifier.doi.DOIConsumer
event.consumer.doi.filters = Item+Modify_Metadata

Then you should add doi to the property event.dispatcher.default.consumers. After adding it, this property could look like following:

event.dispatcher.default.consumers = versioning, discovery, eperson, harvester, doi

Command Line Interface

To make DSpace resistant to outages of DataCite we decided to separate the DOI support in to parts. When a DOI should be generated, reserved or minted, DSpace does this in its own database. To reserver and/or register a

'cron' job for asynchronous reservation/registration

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Configure DSpace to use EZID service for registration of DOIs

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