Hi John – Gosh, that sounds quite unusual – but interesting! Is this arising from the White Rose Repo consolidation of mint-able works across three difference institutions, each with their own DataCite membership? I would suggest that it is local requirement. But how unique is the White Rose scenario? Perhaps I am underestimating the number of shared EPrints repos out there…?

However, I can envisage use cases, for example if a standalone repo is used for an overlay journal, that there might be requirements to transfer a previous DOI account(s) to the local repo, thereby requiring the local repo to operate several accounts. There are probably other use cases that I haven’t thought about. So, perhaps less unusual and more uncommon.

Cheers

George

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