Initiated by the University of Tartu Library and the University of Tartu Natural History Museum and funded by the Estonian Research Council, the University of Tartu joined DataCite in 2014 and acquired the right to assign unique Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to research data created in Estonia. The DataCite Estonia Consortium was founded in early 2015 in order to guarantee the findability and usability of research data created by the researchers of the member universities.