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DataverseNO welcomes MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society as a partner institution. With its own institutional collection (https://dataverse.no/dataverse/mf) in DataverseNO, MF can now offer their researchers a certified and curated data repository where they can make their data openly available and thus make their research more visible, and promote competence on open research.

DataverseNO welcomes Østfold University College as a partner institution. With the institutional collection Østfold University College Open Research Data (https://dataverse.no/dataverse/hiof), HiØ can now offer their researchers a certified and curated data repository where they can make their data openly available and thus make their research more visible, and promote competence on open research.

On March 26, DataverseNO was informed that the Board of CoreTrustSeal had approved our application for CoreTrustSeal certification. The CoreTrustSeal is a quality seal of approval for sustainable and trustworthy research data repositories.

DataverseNO (https://dataverse.no/ and https://info.dataverse.no/) is a national, generic repository for open research data that is currently used by 9 universities and university colleges in Norway, and the certification covers all institutional collections in the repository.

—This is a milestone for DataverseNO, and we are very pleased to be able to offer a certified repository to our partner institutions, says Johanne Raade, library director at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and chair of DataverseNO board.

Through the CoreTrustSeal certification, data repositories demonstrate that they meet a number of requirements for both technical infrastructure and stewardship model and routines. In total, 15 qualification requirements are included in the CoreTrustSeal certification, and DataverseNO meets 14 of them at the highest level (“The guideline has been fully implemented in the repository”). As part of the certification process, we have developed a comprehensive set of guidelines for the repository, the DataverseNO Policy Framework.

We are looking forward to continuing the good work of DataverseNO together with our partner institutions and to further developing the repository so that we at any time can provide Norwegian researchers with an infrastructure that supports them in making their research data as FAIR as possible.

The presentations from the European Dataverse Workshop 2020 are now published in a new issue of the Septentrio Conference Series: https://doi.org/10.7557/scs.2020.2.

Good news at the close of 2019: DataverseNO (https://dataverse.no/) has been selected as one of 12 repositories to get support from FAIRsFAIR (https://www.fairsfair.eu/) to improve its level of interoperability (https://www.fairsfair.eu/application-results-open-call-data-repositories). We are pleased to see that also two other Dataverse repositories are joining us in this effort: Data Inra and Data Science Po.

We are looking forward to working together with the FAIRsFAIR community on implementing the  FAIR principles for research data (https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/).

UiT The Arctic University of Norway is organizing a workshop on Dataverse on January 23-24, 2020. For more information, please see the workshop webpage: https://site.uit.no/dataverseno/european-dataverse-workshop-2020/.

DataverseNO are welcoming the University of Bergen as a new partner institution. With their own institutional repository for open research data – UiB Open Research Data – UiB can now offer their researchers an infrastructure which increases the chances for citations, makes their research more visible, and improves their Open Science skills.

DataverseNO just reached dataset #500! Congratulations to Carlos Aizprua (NTNU), Cesar Witt (University of Lille), Ståle Johansen (NTNU), and Diego Barba (Petroamazonas), who became number 500 with their dataset “Replication Data for: Cenozoic stages of forearc evolution following the accretion of a sliver from the Late Cretaceous-Caribbean Large Igneous Province (CLIP): SW Ecuador-NW Peru” – https://doi.org/10.18710/BYZIZX.

Together with TROLLing, DataverseNO is contributing to the Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC). More info here.

We congratulate TGO on the first dataset (https://doi.org/10.18710/7BFJQQ) in this collection, which will include the long-time geophysical series of measurements that the University of Tromsø took over responsibility for in 1972. Among other things, TGO monitors of the upper part of the Earth’s atmosphere – the ionosphere – with its microwave radar in Ramfjordmoen East of Tromsø. This series of measurements was started in 1932 and is one of the world’s oldest in its kind. With this publication, TGO has started its work to make this series of measurements more discoverable and easily accessible to all.