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Conferences

The annual conference provides data professionals a variety of opportunities to participate in discussions about research data and data support activities. In addition there are regional IASSIST workshops or IASSIST sponsored events.

IASSIST Quarterly

The IQ represents an international cooperative effort on the part of individuals managing, operating, or using machine-readable data archives, data libraries, and data services.

Jobs Repository

The IASSIST Jobs Repository is a record of job descriptions posted to the members’ email list from 2005 to the present, providing a communal resource for employers and job-hunters.

Webinars

Community webinars organized by the IASSIST Professional Development Committee.

Discussion list

Our professional communication and news channel. An important source of support for members to query other data professionals.

Membership

Join or manage your membership.

IASSIST Store

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From iBlog

iBlog is IASSIST’s own blog. Entries on various topics are written by our members.

Editors' notes: From FAIR principles to data competencies: Evolving library support for data-driven scholarship

By IQ Editors on September 25, 2025

Dear IASSISTers, Welcome to IASSIST Quarterly Vol. 49 No. 3 . We trust that you had a pleasant and restorative summer, and that the academic year is off to a good start. We are grateful to the thoughtful reader or author who recently recommended IQ for inclusion in Scopus. We’ve received notice of this recommendation directly from Scopus. At this time, however, we have chosen to delay the review process. A successful application requires a comprehensive set of editorial and ethical policies, and we are still in the process of developing and strengthening these to meet Scopus’ standards.

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Editors' notes: Tides of transformation: Enhancing research through data and community

By IQ Editors on June 25, 2025

Dear IASSISTers, Welcome to IASSIST Quarterly Vol. 49 No. 2 . It was wonderful to meet so many colleagues and to make new connections at the Best IASSIST Ever! in Bristol, UK. It is always exciting to learn about the innovative work that is being done by members of this community. We would like to encourage those who presented at the conference to turn their conference presentation or poster into a paper and submit it to IQ .

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Opening remarks for the 50th anniversary IASSIST conference

By Robin Rice on June 14, 2025

It is an IASSIST tradition for the President to give opening remarks at the first plenary of the annual conference. Below are Robin Rice“s opening remarks on 4th June in Bristol, England, for the 50th anniversary IASSIST conference, as the outgoing President for 2025. Good morning and welcome to IASSIST 2025: Bridging oceans, harbouring data & anchoring the future. A great theme for our 50th anniversary conference, and more prophetic than I would have guessed when the Programme Committee came up with it back in the autumn of 2024, but that’s a thought for another time.

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IASSIST Celebrates 50 Years and 50 Conferences!

By Meryl Brodsky on June 2, 2025

At the IASSIST 2024 conference, the Organizational Archive Action Group was formed to commemorate IASSIST’s 50th anniversary conference: IASSIST 2025. Action Group members included: Margaret (Peggy) Adams, Meryl Brodsky, James Capobianco, Michele Hayslett, Thomas Lindsay, Christine Nieman Hislop (IASSIST Archivist & Action Group Coordinator), Zac Painter, Cindy Severt, and Wei Yin. Oral History Project The Action Group decided to take on two projects in preparation for the conference. One was to conduct oral history interviews with long-time IASSIST members.

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