There are no significant advancements related to the open research data. The only document supporting open access to the research data is the Open Access Declaration initiative (2012), pursuing the goal of broadest possible access to digital publication and research data. Although the Declaration was signed by 20 state ministries, there are no funders’ or institutions’ policies mandating open access to the research data.

Three institutions are actively engaged in the open research data issues:

• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb (FHSS) participates in the open research data projects like SERSCIDA, Seeds and CESSDA ERIC and organizes events on open research data. In 2019 the Croatian Social Science Data Archive (CROSSDA) was launched as a FHSS service provider, and Croatia has since become a CESSDA member with FHSS as the national coordinating body/service provider.
• University Computing Centre - SRCE is developing DABAR infrastructure which enables the deposition of the research data and is promoting best practices in research data sharing as the Croatian National Research Data Alliance (RDA) node. 
• Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) – as a NOAD in the OpenAIRE project RBI is providing researchers with necessary support and education related to the open research data enabled via FULIR Data, Zenodo or other disciplinary repositories. RBI provides a data repository (FULIR Data) hosted on Dabar infrastructure, that gathers, permanently stores and allows open access to primary data produced by RBIs researchers.