10.6084/m9.figshare.4602241.v1 Data-science Digital-science Data-science Digital-science Digital Science Digital Science GRID release 2017-01-31 Digital Science 2017 Datasets persistent identifiers institutes CC0 Library and Information Studies Information Systems 2017-02-02 09:57:35 Dataset https://digitalscience.figshare.com/articles/dataset/GRID_release_2017-01-31/4602241 <div>A database of over 70,000 institutes in the world with persistent identifiers.</div><div><br></div><div>New institutes added from:</div><div><br></div><div> - Grants from the US</div><div><br></div><div>Improvements:</div><div><br></div><div><div> - Removed duplicates</div><div> - Increased coverage of CrossRef Open Funder Registry IDs</div><div> - Increased coverage of Wikidata IDs</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Note: the geonames information is from geonames.org and licensed as CC-BY 3.0.</div><div><br></div>