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To best serve our community of research supporters, policymakers and researchers at the next DANS Open Day 2026, we would like to ask for your input. Have your say in shaping the programme!

CESSDA has recently published the Monitoring Report 2024–2025: Data Citation Practices. The report examines how CESSDA Service Providers (SPs) facilitate the citation of datasets in their collections in order to encourage correct data citation.

The CoreTrustSeal requirements have been updated based on the Board’s experience and extensive community feedback. The guidelines have been clarified, overlaps have been reduced, and greater attention has been paid to an international audience.

For the third time Valentijn Gilissen, Data Processing Team Leader at DANS, was present at the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES). In this blog post, he reflects on the event, and shares his experiences and lessons learned.

PATTERN’s event on 4 December is developed for early-stage researchers to learn about essentials of open science: Open Access, Dissemination & Exploitation and FAIR RDM.

PATTERN launches free and downloadable eLearning and training toolkit, developed by DANS, in collaboration with OpenAIRE amongst other project partners.

The new year is starting off good for data professionals, with another edition of the Essentials 4 Data Support courseThe course is offered by Research Data Netherlands (RDNL)and will be instructed in English this round. 

The newly updated version of the ODISSEI Portal improves discovery of more than 9,500 social science datasets from Dutch data providers. The update includes an improved display of the controlled vocabularies as well as software and documentation updates, making the Portal more stable and easier to use.