# Zenodo DOIs for data and code

Source: https://onco.cc/terms/zenodo-doi/  
OnCo record `zenodo-doi` (Term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)"; commercial use needs a licence.

## TL;DR

Zenodo is CERN's free open repository where researchers deposit datasets, code and papers and receive a permanent DOI for each version, so a result can cite exactly the files it used.

## Summary

Zenodo is a general-purpose open repository developed under the European OpenAIRE programme and operated by CERN, which mints a persistent digital object identifier for each submission (Wikipedia); a DOI is a persistent identifier standardised by ISO (Wikipedia). Archiving a GitHub release to Zenodo gives code a citable, versioned DOI, and OnCo's open-source records note the first non-Zenodo DOI a README names so the paper and the archive are distinguished.

## Fields

- Kind: Term
- Last checked: 2026-09-24
- Also known as: Zenodo; Zenodo DOI; Zenodo record; DOI for a dataset; data DOI; software DOI; persistent identifier
- Tags: cansim-terms

## Notes

- Listed in the CanSim terms map 1.0.0 (docs/onco/terms.json, generated 2026-09-24), CC BY 4.0, attribution: CanSim project, an open, public-data-first cancer foundation-model programme; CanSim page path /terms/zenodo-doi.

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenodo
- Wikipedia: digital object identifier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
- About Zenodo: https://about.zenodo.org/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenodo

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