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In response to last week’s military invasion of Ukraine by Russia we at DANS, institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), join academies in All European Academies (ALLEA) and wholeheartedly underwrite the below statement made by the ALLEA presidency in support of Ukraine, its citizens, its academics, and its academic Institutions. We also emphatically support the Russian academics who are protesting against the military actions of the Russian government.

DANS contributed to the translation of terms available in the CESSDA topic classification. The terms of this and eight other controlled vocabularies published in the CESSDA Vocabulary Service are now available in Dutch.

The datasets Dutch Parliamentary Election Study 2021 (DPES/NKO 2021) and Dutch Ethnic Minority Study 2021 (DEMES 2021) are available through DANS.

The ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) Call 2022 is now open. The grant is intended for researchers employed at participating ODISSEI organisations.

The article “From Disparate Disciplines to Unity in Diversity: How the PARTHENOS Project Has Brought European Humanities Research Infrastructures Together” was recently published. DANS Data Station Managers Femmy Admiraal (Humanities) and Hella Hollander (Archaeology) contributed to this article.

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.