Print theses and dissertations have regularly been submitted together with complementary material, such as maps, tables, speech samples, photos or videos, in various formats and on different supports. In the digital environment of open repositories and added value services, these open data could become a rich source of research results and datasets, for reuse and other exploitation.With regards to CRIS, this materialcan and should be taken into account as research results, along with products or publications – not on the same level as big data from important scientific equipments but as small (dark, personal) data, related to individual work or specific research projects.