The Portuguese Node of GBIF hosted the second meeting of the GBIF mentoring project France-Portugal-Spain, between the 28-30 of April at the Burnay Palace, Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT), Lisbon. The meeting aimed at exchanging experiences and expertise among the different nodes. This meeting addressed the issue of e-learning training about Data Papers, the requirements for its preparation using the GBIF tools such as the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) platform, as well as the different possibilities of publication of Data Papers based on datasets published through GBIF.