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Practical guidance for any librarian learning to deal with data
A book aimed at data librarians has recently been published, The Data Librarian’s Handbook by Robin Rice and John Southall.
FSD the Finnish Data Archive of CESSDA welcomes a new director
Helena Laaksonen has been appointed as the new director of FSD, the Finnish Social Science Data Archive.
EU funding opportunity for data-driven policy development - Big Data Europe paves the way
The social sciences have been given a boost in a recent call to receive funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme which will close on 2 February 2017.
Contributing to transparency of research, accelerating dissemination and fostering reuse of scholarly data
The Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (RDJ) is a peer-reviewed journal, which is designed to comprehensively document and publish deposited datasets and to facilitate their online exploration.
CESSDA plans improved training materials and workshops for researchers
The first meeting of the CESSDA Training Working Group provided the opportunity for CESSDA Service Providers to make concrete plans for the development of training resources and for organising workshops.
CESSDA prepared for the new requirements for trustworthy data repositories
The Data Seal of Approval (DSA) and the ICSU World Data System (WDS) both announced on 25 November 2016 that new common requirements were available.