The internal project Digital Curation Services supports the advancement of research and development efforts according to DCU’s research directions and work programme by using chiefly funds remaining from the execution of service provision projects. In view of parallel externally funded projects, this project on one hand ensures the continuity of DCU’s work programme, while on the other it enables actions of topical interest for which external funds may be insufficient at the time. It also allows better integrating and employing results of completed projects in sustained and new digital curation services, thus supporting the capitalization of those results.