The why, how and what of publishing research data

Each year, on the first Thursday of November, World Digital Preservation Day is celebrated. In honor of today, we share our thoughts on depositing research data in a data repository. Happy World Digital Preservation Day!

Femmy Admiraal • November 06, 2025

How can we monitor where Leiden researchers deposit their data? A comparative analysis between open sources

Datasets are increasingly deposited and published by Leiden University researchers. But where do they do this and how can we find out? During her internship at the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship and the CWTS, Korina Lemonidou researched this question.

Korina Lemonidou • April 02, 2025

Love Data Week 2025 @CDS

It’s International Love Data Week! The theme this year is “Whose data is it, anyway?” This week, we at the Leiden University Libraries’ Centre for Digital Scholarship share our love of data through the following events.

Pascal Flohr and Kristina Hettne • February 10, 2025

Who 'owns' (your) research data?

Do you ever wonder who owns research data? And did you know this may not be you as a researcher?

Pascal Flohr and Erna Sattler • September 19, 2024

Easy ways to improve your research data management: file formats

Research data management can seem daunting and time consuming. In this series we introduce some -relatively- straightforward ways of improving your data management, starting with file formats.

Pascal Flohr • July 01, 2024

My internship experience at the Centre for Digital Scholarship at the Leiden University Libraries

On her last day, Centre for Digital Scholarship intern Vanessa Köstner reflects on her four months at the Leiden University Libraries:

Vanessa Köstner • June 17, 2024

The Year 2023@CDS

In this post we look back at some of the milestones and achievements made by the Centre for Digital Scholarship in 2023

Alenka Prinčič • February 12, 2024

Dataset publication by Leiden University researchers: research on the impact of FAIR data

Núria Raga Raga joined the Centre for Digital Scholarship for a 3 month internship to determine which repositories Leiden researchers use to archive their data and to what extent these repositories enable compliance with the Leiden University Data Management Regulations.

Núria Raga Raga • December 16, 2022

How will we exchange digital research data in the future?

The proceedings of the 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects in Leiden offer a vision of a more accessible future for research data.

Kristina Hettne • November 07, 2022

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