FAIRsharing record for: Persistent Identifier Consortium for eResearch

This FAIRsharing record describes: ePIC is to set up and maintain a reliable joint service for registering, storing and resolving persistent identifiers based on handles for the research community. ePIC was founded in 2009 by a consortium of European partners in order to provide PID services for the European Research Community, based on the handle system, for the allocation and resolution of persistent identifiers. The consortium signed a Memorandum of Understanding aiming to provide long term reliability for the PID services. Meanwhile ePIC is also an international consortium and open to partners from the research community worldwide.