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Femmy Admiraal

Femmy Admiraal

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Fleur Praal

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Ben Companjen

Digital Scholarship Librarian

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CDS Summer Training Week 2026: research support from A to Z

CDS Summer Training Week 2026: research support from A to Z

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From 8-12 June, the Centre for Digital Scholarship organized the fourth edition of the Summer Training Week. The research support professionals of the CDS, together with the participants, explored various topics from each of our areas of expertise.

"It was a very useful session. There were a lot of takeaways that we can apply on our projects here at LIACS." Narutai Riangkruar, Leiden University – LIACS, on the workshop How to write a DMP

Since its establishment in 2016, the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship has provided support for research in four areas of expertise: open access and scholarly communication, research software and data engineering, copyright, and research data management. Since 2023, we have organised the CDS Summer Training Week each year to showcase our wide range of training in these areas of expertise. We take a deep dive into topics such as how to publish in open access; who has the copyright on your paper or dataset; how to share fieldwork data ethically; or how to make a map for a project website or publication? The sessions can be followed separately or combined with one another, and are fit for participants with varying levels of experience. In this edition, we welcomed 119 participants in total, spread over 12 sessions.

" [...] From start to finish, every bit of provided information was of direct relevance to my research and my understanding of publishing, contracts and copyright. I wish I’d had a workshop like this when I started publishing as an academic [...]." Laura Bertens, Leiden University - CAS, on the workshop Book publishing: publishers, platforms and negotiations

Apart from sessions that are part of our regular course programme, such as Copyright and open access for PhDs, and How to write a Data Management Plan, we also took the opportunity to develop some new courses and lectures. For example, in the Connect & Link data and publications webinar, we explored the different types of relations between narrative publications and published data, making use of the synergy between our expertise on data management and open access. Some of the sessions targeted research support staff, such as the session Towards persistent identification of research instruments, which was mainly attended by laboratory managers and IT specialists. Others were tailored to researchers with a particular issue at hand: Get started with pre-printing and Ethical sharing of fieldwork data. The session on Book publishing: Platforms, contracts and negotiation attracted a more mixed audience consisting of project managers, library colleagues and (prospective) book authors. Finally, we offered hands-on sessions for working with particular tools, such as Cleaning data with OpenRefine and Automated text recognition with Transkribus.

" […] it was a great workshop." Isidore Komla Zotoo, University of Ghana, on the workshop Ethical sharing of fieldwork data

Building on this successful week, we are aiming to organise a fifth CDS Summer Training Week in June next year.

If you are interested in any of the topics, but were unable to attend and do not want to wait until June 2027, contact us at cds@library.leidenuniv.nl and if there is enough interest, we can organize a repeat of the session. Some of the above workshops are already being planned to take place again during the coming academic year, while slides and other information of some of the sessions have been shared on the CDS Zenodo community.

This blog was edited by Pascal Flohr. Image: Hannah Janssen / Unsplash.

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