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Digital Research Alliance of Canada: 2026 Resource Allocation Competition Deadline is Nov. 4

The deadline to apply for the 2026 Resource Allocation Competition (RAC) is Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.This deadline applies to all application processes:Resources for Research Groups (Including Fast Track applications)Research Platforms and Portals (including annual progress reports)For details, see the Alliance Resource Allocation Competition information....

Community Research Data Toolkit: Open Resource Launch

From the creators of the Community Research Data Toolkit: We're excited to share the launch of the Community Research Data Toolkit which can now be accessed in open-access formats and adapted for use. There are also tool templates within the pressbook can be downloaded separately.This toolkit aims to reframe data management for community research work, with templates for conversational data management plans, establishing roles and responsibilities, and ways for communities to be involved in controlling access to data once the project is complete. More information: https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/communitydatatoolkit/...

Open Science Framework - Dataverse (Borealis) Integration

For information of researchers, it is possible to set up a Dataverse as an “Add-on”, to pull data into OSF, and to deposit from OSF into a Dataverse where you may have the necessary permissions. More information:https://help.osf.io/article/684-verified-links...

Funding opportunities requiring data management plans

From the Tri-Agency, updated 2025 Augues 18: The Tri-Agency Research Data Management (RDM) Policy requires that applicants to certain Tri-Agency funding opportunities submit data management plans (DMPs) with their applications. The Tri-Agency includes the three federal research funding agencies — the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The list below identifies funding opportunities that require DMPs. For recurring funding opportunities, the date refers to the competition when the DMP requirement was introduced. Additional funding opportunities may pilot DMPs and be added to this list in the future… Details: https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/research-data-management/funding-opportunities-requiring-data-management-plans...

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