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Graduate students, as potential future full-time researchers, should show proficiency in data sharing because it provides credibility, increases impact and prepares students for grant writing. We compared the FAIRness of non-traditional research outputs (supplement materials) associated with theses and dissertations shared by individual students, with those shared through an institutional repository. Those shared in an institutional repository were significantly FAIRer and had higher views per month. We conclude that graduate students as a population are not yet proficient in applying the FAIR principles. And that they would measuarbly benefit from the review process that is part of most institutional repositories.

The General Repository Comparison Chart and FAIRsharing Collection (https://fairsharing.org/collection/GeneralRepositoryComparison) is an outcome of the NIH Workshop on the Role of Generalist Repositories to Enhance Data Discoverability and Reuse held 11-12 February 2020 (workshop summary). Following the workshop, representatives of the participating generalist repositories collaborated to develop a tool researchers could use to make decisions about selecting a general repository. We intend for the content to be dynamically updated through our partnership with FAIRsharing. As we work towards that goal, we currently have a static version of the comparison. It is important to state that researchers should first determine if an appropriate domain repository exists for their research data. Tools such as FAIRsharing.org and re3data.org can help with this determination. If using a domain repository is not possible, then a researcher should review both the general repository chart and consider their own institutional repository as a possible location to store their data. Researchers need to comply with the requirements of their community, funder, country, publisher, and possibly others to ensure the best repository is selected. <br> For those interested in continuing the discussion on the role of generalist repositories to enhance data discoverability and reuse, please consider joining the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and particularly the joint RDA/Force11 FAIRsharing WG (https://www.rd-alliance.org/group/fairsharing-registry-connecting-data-policies-standards-databases.html). There is now an RDA Community to support conversation and a mailing list you join (https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/generalist-repository-comparison-chart-management-group). Watch for relevant sessions in the upcoming plenaries.

Kinch & The Double World tells the story of an orphan in Victorian London who gets caught up in a magician's trick and transported to another world.The film is a result of the VR research project ALIVE, a partnership between Foundry, University of Surrey and Figment Productions.

An Australian automotive component company plans to assemble and deliver seats to customer on just-in-time basis.The company management has decided to model operations of the seat plant to help them make decisions on capital investment and labour requirements.There are four different areas in seat assembly and delivery areas.Each area is modeled independently to optimise its operations.All four areas are then combined into one model called the plant model to model operations of seat plant from assembly to delivery.Discrete event simulation software is used to model the assembly operations of seat plant.