1 Foreword

Martin Fenner (1), Daniella Lowenberg (2), Matt Jones (3), Paul Needham (4), Dave Vieglais (5), Stephen Abrams (2), Patricia Cruse (1) and John Chodacki (2) on behalf of the Make Data Count Project

1 DataCite, Hannover, Germany 2 California Digital Library, Oakland, CA, USA 3 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, USA 4 Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom 5 Biodiversity Research Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

Corresponding author: Martin Fenner, email: mfenner@datacite.org

Funding Disclosure: This work was funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This funding body had no role in the design of the report, or in writing the manuscript.