diff --git a/handlers/datasets.js b/handlers/datasets.js
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/handlers/datasets.js
+++ b/handlers/datasets.js
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export default {
 
     create(req, res) {
         counter.getNext('datasets', (datasetNumber) => {
-            let offset = 100;
+            let offset = 1000;
             datasetNumber += offset;
             datasetNumber = 'ds' + ('000000' + datasetNumber).substr(-6,6);
             req.body._id = datasetNumber;
@@ -96,4 +96,4 @@ export default {
         });
     }
 
-};
\ No newline at end of file
+};
Bump reserved range for dataset accession numbers to 0-<I>.