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FAIR-Aware presents some useful guidance on how to make data FAIR. This can be especially useful in the planning phase when writing your Data Management Plan (DMP). FAIRsFAIR has published a guidance document that you can use to plan for FAIR data.

A milestone in the Netherlands: national portal NARCIS gives access to over 1 million scientific open access publications!

From February 2020 until January 2022, the FAIRsFAIR Repository Support Programme ran. In this Programme, 10 repositories were supported to apply for CoreTrustSeal certification. After the completion of the Programme, the repositories’ experiences and advice are shared in a three-part blog series.

Alex Brandsen of the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Leiden developed a search engine called AGNES, which searches very precisely through thousands of archaeological reports. His PhD defence took place on 15 February 2022.

DANS Data Trail 29-03

On Tuesday, March 29, 15:30 – 17:00 CET, the (online) DANS Data Trail Workshop: “Data Management Tools for Archaeologists – How can the European ARIADNEplus Project help you?” will take place.

The magazine E-data & Research, available only in Dutch, is full of success stories about sharing and reusing research data. Soon the February issue will be delivered, this edition is already available via edata.nl.

Together with head researcher Gemma Blok and the Poppi Museum, DANS starts the project Tales from the Drug Closet. In this project, stories about personal experiences with drug use are collected through an online environment.

As of January 18th 2022, SSHOC has launched the SSH Open Marketplace. It is a discovery platform for resources relevant to academics, scholars, and students of the social sciences and humanities. The range of covered resources spans from tools and services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows.