The document discusses virtual research environments (VREs) at Utrecht University and Leiden University. Utrecht University has around 35 virtual knowledge centres across disciplines including geosciences, humanities, law, and medicine. Leiden University started its VRE program in 2009 across humanities, political science, and law. The VRE projects involve reference management, data management using Dataverse Network and SharePoint, identity management using university and publisher identity providers, and organizing conferences. A national project in the Netherlands is working to integrate reference managers, data repositories, and repositories into VREs and contribute to the next version of the Research Information Cloud.

1. VRE Toolkit: Plans and Expections Peter Verhaar British Library, London 22 March 2011

2. Collaboration on VREs

3. Utrecht University “ Partner in Science” programme; currently ca. 35 ‘Virtual Knowledge Centres’ Disciplines: Geosciences, Humanities, Law, Medicine Science, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Veterinary Medicine Leiden University Start of VRE programme in 2009; experimentation with RIC 1.0 Disciplines: Humanities (History, Archaeology, Linguistics, Media Studies), Political Science (Counter-terrorism), Law VRE Projects

4. Reference Management

5. Public websites

6. Data Management Storage in Dataverse Network SharePoint as front-end

7. Identity Management Identity providers (Universities) Service providers (Publishers)

8. Organisation of conferences

9. National project on VREs Funded by SURF VRE development Integration of Reference Management Systems (Zotero, Mendeley) Integration of data repositories (DVN) Repository Integration (DSpace) Contributions to RIC 2.0