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Marta Teperek is director of 4TU.ResearchData and head of research data services in the Delft University of Technology’s Library in the Netherlands.
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Maria Cruz is a senior policy adviser on open science at the Dutch Research Council in The Hague, the Netherlands.
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Danny Kingsley is associate librarian for content and digital library strategy at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia.
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Professionals at research organizations are typically split into two categories: ‘academic staff’ and ‘support staff’. As professionals working in research environments in the Netherlands and Australia, we have straddled the dividing lines between these conventional divisions.
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