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The European Council of Doctoral Candidates (EuroDoc), the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), and the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) support the guidelines for the implementation of Plan S.

The Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) is the most recent cloud based infrastructure for scholars of social sciences and humanities.

The Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) has published the Continuous Monitor Citizen Perspectives (COB, 2013-2016), which contains results on changes on public opinion of the Netherlands. The SCP focuses on the attitudes of the Dutch population to social, ideological and political issues as revealed in public opinion polls; the other research strand is focused on people’s lives and their behaviour in terms of how they spend their time and use services.

iPRES 2019 will be held in Amsterdam from 16 until 20 September 2019. Organising this years’ international conference on digital sustainability is ‘Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed’. A Dutch network on digital heritage. Contributions to the conference can be made until 18th of March.

DANS has compared the Access Rights of NARCIS articles to those of Unpaywall. Last years research has shown that there is a significant difference.

Today is January 28, which means that it is the international privacy day. Created by the Council of Europe with support from the European Commission, to better inform citizens about the importance of privacy protection.

The first OpenMR Benelux took place on January 16, an Open Science event for researchers working with Magnetic Resonance (MR) data.

A dataset has been published in EASY with the data from the Social Domain Index 2017 or “quality of life index”. This dataset has been developed as an aid to assess annually to what extent the situation of citizens in the social domain has improved or deteriorated.