Editors’ Summary: This article reviews the FORCE2026 conference held earlier this month at Singapore Management University. The conference focused on how to improve scholarly communications to encourage scholarly collaborations. A key component of the conference was engagement with DataCite, an organization, like Crossref, that provides persistent identifiers for research publications. This article recounts how various organizations and universities use DataCite to increase visibility through engaging with publication metadata, licensing, software reuse, and other topics. This article would be helpful for DH practitioners, especially those working in library science.
