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OpenAIRE stands for Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe. The purpose of OpenAIRE is to support the Open Science policy of the European Commission. The EC wants publications and datasets that are funded with European research funding to be open access. The web page of the Research Data Management task force contains a large number of products that support the open access to research data.

The Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) has started making its publications available via NARCIS. NLR is the central knowledge enterprise in the Netherlands in the field of aerospace.

On the 21st of November, participants of the National eScience Symposium in Amsterdam witnessed a special event: the launch of the FAIR Software Route. This online step-by-step guide helps developers, researchers and data stewards creating and storing research software in a FAIR way.

Indonesia’s first national data repository is inspired by DANS. Scholars have proposed research data repositories where researchers can share data openly. These data pools allow researchers to verify and reproduce the results of published studies.

The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) organises the Web Archiving Conference (WAC) in cooperation with the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales de Québec (BAnQ) on 12 and 13 May 2020. Proposals for the conference can be submitted until the 1st of December 2019.

The United Nations proclaimed November 21st as “World Television Day.” A day on which extra attention is paid to cultural exchange that focuses on peace, security and economic and social development. In EASY you can find all kinds of data about television and media use.

The Sharing is Caring conference takes place at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on 22 November. During the conference, heritage institutions share their ideas and best practices in the field of digital collections and open data.

International Student’s Day is celebrated on November 17, an international observance of student activism. In our digital archive you can also find and reuse data about students and their environment.