Research data infrastructure

Chile’s ANID is extending its 2022 Open Access Policy across every instrument it funds in 2026, backed by a new EspacioCiencia repository service and renewed InES Ciencia Abierta capacity funding. Here’s what the mandate actually requires.

RDA’s 27th Plenary meets in London Oct 6-8, 2026, hosted by UKRI — piloting a new cadence pairing yearly virtual and in-person meetings.

OpenAlex’s January 2026 roadmap: the Walden rewrite to Databricks is done, Awards is now a first-class entity, and credit-based API pricing is rolling out.

As of Feb. 2026, OpenAlex requires an API key for all production API use and bills most calls on usage, with a daily free allowance per key.

ARC’s 5-goal PID Action Plan — DOIs on grants, ROR on institutions, ORCID on personnel, plus a FAIR data policy — is due complete by end of 2026.

DMPTool is rebuilding on a modern API architecture for machine-actionable DMPs. Its summer 2026 target has slipped to late 2026 after NIH/NSF changes.

Software Heritage marked 10 years in Jan 2026, gained UNESCO/DPGA digital-public-good status, and struck a Sovereign Tech Agency archival partnership.

Cornell University Library relaunched eCommons on DSpace-CRIS, hosted by 4Science on AWS, on May 18, 2026 — a real institutional CRIS-migration case study.

AfriGen-D, a pan-African human genomics data hub, launched May 7, 2026, led by UCT, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, and University of Mauritius.

Duke University Libraries has completed migrating its Research Data Repository from the Hyrax/Samvera stack to TIND RDM, a platform built by CERN spinoff TIND, adding a submission dashboard, dataset versioning with new DOIs per version, file preview, and expanded ORCID/ROR support while preserving existing DOI resolution.

OpenAlex now ingests DataCite’s funder and grant metadata daily, part of a $3.6M Wellcome grant to build open funding infrastructure.

How researchers access LSST data: Rubin Science Platform accounts, data-rights eligibility, and Data Preview 2’s July 2026 rollout and two-year embargo.

CERN will operate the next phase of Open Research Europe from autumn 2026, backed by roughly €17 million in funding from 16 agencies across 11 European countries. Authorship eligibility expands beyond EC-funded researchers, but the diamond OA model — free to publish, open post-publication peer review — stays the same.

UKRN’s STAR Study (Working Paper 12, July 2026) finds UK universities have built open-data policy and repository infrastructure since 2016, but adoption remains compliance-driven and has stalled — here’s what it found and recommends.

Crossref has published its first position paper, arguing that national and international PID policy focused narrowly on identifiers misses what actually makes research infrastructure work: open linked metadata and sustainably governed organisations. The paper offers five recommendations for policymakers and draws worked examples from the UK, Portugal, Canada and South Africa.

HORIZON-ZEN+, a CERN-coordinated EU project (2025-2027), adds AI-assisted curation and discovery tools to Zenodo’s EU Open Research Repository.

The European Commission convened 28 EOSC Nodes and 34 Horizon Europe EOSC projects in Brussels, July 7-9, 2026, marking 14 new Nodes and ~€500M in investment.

A 2.7-million-preprint IEEE S&P 2026 study found 88% of arXiv submissions leak hidden source-file data: passwords, API keys, GPS coordinates.

On July 1, 2026, arXiv left Cornell University’s umbrella to become arXiv, Inc., an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Cornell and the Simons Foundation are founding Members with board seats on a 12-member board; a $10M Simons/Schmidt Sciences gift funds cloud migration. The arxiv.org URL, free access, staff, and moderation process are unchanged.

The 2026 EOSC Federation governance refresh: new node-membership criteria, the sustainability funding model, and how integrators should reposition.

RDA Maturity Model, F-UJI, FAIR-Aware, CESSDA, ARDC: which FAIR assessment tool to choose, when, and how to integrate with institutional repositories.