Zenodo
Zenodo is an open research repository website for preserving, sharing, citing, and discovering datasets, software, publications, presentations, and other research outputs.
What Zenodo is
Zenodo is an open research repository website at zenodo.org for sharing and preserving research outputs. It is hosted by CERN and was launched through the OpenAIRE project to support open access and open data practices across research communities.
Open research repository
The service is designed as a general-purpose repository rather than a platform for one discipline. Researchers can use it for datasets, software, publications, posters, presentations, reports, supplementary files, and other digital materials that help explain or reproduce scholarly work.
Citable records and DOIs
Zenodo records make research outputs easier to cite and discover by pairing files with structured metadata. CERN's Open Science page notes that uploads receive digital object identifiers, making records easier to reference in papers, project reports, software releases, and data management workflows.
Access choices
Zenodo supports open records, restricted records, and embargoed access patterns. That flexibility matters because research artifacts are often collected before publication, before review is complete, or under conditions where sensitive material cannot be immediately released to everyone.
APIs and integrations
The website is supplemented by developer tools, including REST API documentation for deposits, records, and files. API access lets research groups, repositories, and software projects connect Zenodo to automated workflows instead of treating each upload as a one-off manual task.
Software archiving
Zenodo is often used with software projects because it can archive releases and give them stable citation metadata. That is useful when researchers need to cite code, preserve an exact release, or connect a software artifact with a paper or dataset.
Strengths and limits
Zenodo is useful, but it does not replace research judgment. A repository record can improve preservation and citation, while questions about quality, ethics, licensing, reproducibility, privacy, and peer review still need to be checked in context.
Why it matters
Zenodo matters because modern scholarship produces more than papers. Data, code, protocols, slides, figures, and supporting files all shape how research is understood, reused, and verified, so a public repository can make those outputs more durable and easier to cite.
WHOIS domain data
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- Domain
- zenodo.org
- IP address
- 137.138.52.235
- Registrar
- CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
- WHOIS server
- whois.cscglobal.com
- Referral URL
- http://www.cscglobal.com/global/web/csc/digital-brand
- Created
- November 15, 2012
- Updated
- November 16, 2025
- Expires
- November 15, 2026
- Nameservers
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- Domain status
- clientTransferProhibited
- DNSSEC
- unsigned