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The Research Data College has published a report on the adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) in French Higher Education And Research (ESR). Persistent identifiers like DOI, ORCID, ROR, SWHID or RAiD are…
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News from the Committee
Le 21/01/2026
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space has decided to continue its support for the international infrastructures selected by SCOSS (the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) in the framework of its sixth call for funding. In this way, France…
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Le 28/11/2025
Nature publishes an interesting comment on research software, calling for recording, sharing and valuing the software produced by research. The text proposes to adapt the FAIR principles, designed for data, to the specificities of software, by enriching the FAIR4RS principles…
News from the Committee
Le 10/10/2025
The Assises Nationales des Données de la Recherche (national research data conference), ANDOR 2025, is organised by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and Paris-Saclay University and will take place on December 1st and 2nd of this year. During…
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Legal affairs expert group
Open scientific publishing expert group
Transparency and publicising the results of health research
The definition and recognition of data management and dissemination activities
Passport for open science
Publication and self-archiving policies
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