ADAS will collect data across a range of social science disciplines. This includes quantitative and qualitative data. The primary focus will be on quantitative data in the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, educational science, information science, economics, demography, and geography.
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National development plans for data services in the ERA & media packs (CESSDA SaW project)
]]>The Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA) is a core social science research infrastructure in Austria. We are the Austrian service provider of CESSDA.
We are located at the Vienna University (main office), as well as at Graz University, Linz University, and the University of Innsbruck.
Partner Organisations
University of Vienna
University of Graz
University of Linz
University of Innsbruck
As a national digital repository, SODHA preserves and disseminates data sets in social sciences as well as both the traditional and the digital humanities. Researchers can deposit their data on the online platform. SODHA safely stores data for the long-term. Researchers keep full control over their data sets and are free to choose among several access and reuse regimes. Open data can be downloaded immediately from the website. However, depositors have the option of conditioning access to their datasets.
SODHA is financed by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), allowing researchers to find, access and deposit research data on the platform for free.
SODHA relies on the open source software Dataverse developed by Harvard University. Experts in social sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) advise and contribute to the development of SODHA.
The future growth of SODHA is stimulated by the BISHOPS project, which investigates how to develop the existing infrastructure in order to address the needs of the various disciplines in the traditional and digital humanities.
Funding Agency
Belgian Scientific Policy Office (BELSPO)
News (in English, Dutch and French)
Participation of Belgium to the ESFRI Roadmap
]]>CREDI is an independent non-profit and non-partisan think tank, with a mission of strengthening the culture of evidence-based policy-making in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The purpose of the data archive is to provide a vital research data resource for researchers, teachers, students, and other interested users.
Data that are included in DASS-BiH are survey data from social science research in various disciplines, including economics, development, education, political sciences, psychology and sociology. Both quantitative and qualitative data are included. In the next stage, DASS-BiH aims to also include administrative datasets.
]]>Social surveys conducted since 2000 make up the main data that will be included in the future data service collection. In collecting and managing social survey data, priority will be given to surveys in the following fields: sociology, political science, education, economics and psychology. Surveys which cover all major aspects of socio-economic life of contemporary Bulgarian society are of high relevance to the archive. ISSK-BAS intends to provide access to both qualitative and quantitative data, as both qualitative and quantitative research methods produce valuable and highly applicable research data.
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National development plans for data services in the ERA & media packs (CESSDA SaW project)
]]>Croatia became a member of CESSDA ERIC in 2019 with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education. The data archive was established at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, which serves as the national coordination centre for social science data curation.
Open access and open science policies which would require scientists to share and preserve their data are still being developed in Croatia. CROSSDA therefore also has an advocacy role for the introduction of such policies and offers the necessary infrastructure to support their implementation.
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Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia
Ministasrstvo znanosti i obrazovanja
News (in English)
]]>ČSDA also participates in networks of transnational data access, creates the background for Czech participation in international comparative survey programmes, and promotes secondary data analysis in social science research in general. ČSDA is the Czech node within the pan-European distributed research infrastructure Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and the CESSDA Service Provider in the Czech Republic.
News (in English)
News (in Czech)
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy
News and events (in Czech)
Academy of Sciences
]]>RA gathers and preserves a broad range of data of scientific and public significance. Data, which holds valuable information about the Danish society and not least its inhabitants. It is the task of DDA to secure access and usability of these data for scientists and students.
Our primary focus has been on social science or health science data, but we are now making strides towards the dissemination of public records and registers, so that these valuable data can be utilized for scientific purposes.
Through an agreement with the Danish Data Protection Agency RA preserves data materials containing personal identifiers, a feature that increases the scientific value of the data material significantly.
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News and studies (in Danish)
Ministry of Culture
News (in Danish)
Ministry of Higher Education and Science
Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet
Newsroom (in English)
]]>All data from ESTA are now available at the DataDOI repository, which is maintained by the University of Tartu library.
University of Tartu Library (UTL) was founded in 1802.
The objectives of the UTL are:
- Accumulating, preserving and making accessible of information necessary for research and study purposes of the University of Tartu
- Offering of public information services
- Creation, preservation and making accessible for research purposes of a complete collection of Estonian-language publications, materials published in Estonia, materials discussing Estonia or containing information about Estonia
- Research and development activities on librarianship and information sciences.
FSD is a separate unit in the University of Tampere and is also financially supported by the Academy of Finland through project funding to research infrastructures.
Training
FSD provides training and presentations on data reuse, data management, long-term preservation, and other FSD services. For example, training can be requested for researcher workshops and research method courses for students. The content can be tailored to meet organisers' requests.
News (in English)
News (in Finnish)
News (in Swedish)
New data sources (English descriptions)
New data sources (Finnish descriptions)
FSD translates quantitative data on request into English (metadata is always translated) free of charge.
FSD’s Data Management Guidelines provide practical advice and instructions on managing digital research data at different stages of the data life cycle. The Guidelines contain up-to-date information on matters related to agreements, rights, informing research participants, and anonymisation of data, among others.
Blog (in Finnish)
Ministry of Education and Research
Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö
Undervisnings- och kulturministeriet
News (in English)
Academy of Finland
News (in English)
]]>Thought as a central node of French representation on Data SSH European Infrastructure, PROGEDO is composed of 3 departments :
- CESSDA-France/ Réseau Quetelet: to disseminate French data and give easier access to international data ;
- ESS-France: to coordinate and promote the use of the European Social Survey ;
- SHARE-France: to coordinate and promote the use of the Survey on Health Aging and Retirement in Europe.
Read more on CESSDA-France/Réseau Quetelet
Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research
Ministère de l'Education Nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la recherche
News (in French)
Webpage about SSH infrastructures (incl. PROGEDO)
National centre for scientific research (CNRS)
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
News (in English)
]]>Training
The German Data Archive for the Social Sciences hosts CESSDA Training, the hub of the CESSDA Training Group. We provide (customised) trainings on research data management, processing and documenting quantitative research data, data discovery and re-use, and digital preservation.
Find out more about training on our local website.
News and new data (in English)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
News (in German)
Important notice: the current information is out-dated.
]]>So.Da.Net supports multidisciplinary research and promotes the acquisition, exchange, processing as well as dissemination of data deriving from and related to social science research. Social science research datasets and metadata are being stored and documented based on a model compatible with DDI3 and DDI2 using Nesstar software, thus rendering them available to any interested user. Data is sought and retrieved locally, via the repositories of its members, or through the So.Da.Net portal itself.
In addition to this, the research infrastructure of So.Da.Net provides e-learning services with regard to social research methodology, development of research infrastructures, as well as, data management–use of the research infrastructure data. The services provided by So.Da.Net can be accessed freely online or under specific terms if need be depending on the request.
So.Da.Net has been incorporated along with the European Social Survey (ESS) into the ‘National Road Map of Research Infrastructures 2014-2020’ under the title CESSRI.
Training
The Greek Research Network So.Da.Net E-learning platform hosts training courses covering methodology and procedures utilised within data documentation as well as detailed description of statistical analysis methods applied.
Find out more about training on our local website.
News (in English)
The Social Data Bank of EKKE was previously engaged with CESSDA.
]]>The data collection contains several studies in the research areas of the labor market and employment; income, property and savings; social behavior and attitudes; gender and gender roles; social stratification and groupings as well as mass political behavior.
As a result of this collection, we have been able to contribute to several international research efforts.
]]>DATICE (known as GAGNÍS in Iceland) is Iceland’s first social science service for quantitative data acquisition, preservation, and dissemination.
Located at the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) at the University of Iceland, its mission is to build research infrastructures and to ensure wide access to quantitative scoail science data by the following the FAIR pricniples.
DATICE offers various services to researchers, including data management training and support, as well as advice on issues concerning methodology and research ethics.
Félagsvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands (SSRI) on Facebook
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
]]>Based at UCD Library, its mission is to ensure wide access to quantitative datasets in the social sciences, and to advance the promotion of international comparative studies of the Irish economy and Irish society.
Training
The Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA) is Ireland’s leading centre for quantitative data acquisition, preservation, and dissemination. Occasionally ISSDA partners with Data Providers to provide training workshops, for example on Anonymisation (June 2016) and Finding & Reusing Data (June 2017). We also provide links to useful resources for researchers and those who use data in their teaching.
Find out more about training on our local website.
Information on other data archives (including CESSDA).
]]>The Interdepartmental Centre UniData – Bicocca Data Archive is a joint project coming from eight departments of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
The project aims to create a centre for excellence in data sharing, enhance the secondary analysis and to promote a responsible data use in the social, economic and environmental studies.
News (in English)
News (in Italian)
UniData also provides several services in relation to National Statistical Institute (Istat) data, depending on the data type required. The services allow to simplify the process of data acquisition and data preparation for the analysis, speeding up the timing of research.
University of Milano-Bicocca
Italian National Research Council (CNR)
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Cultural Heritage (DSU)
Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research
Ministero dell'Istruzione Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca
]]>The KSSDC’s holdings will include social science data in a broad sense. The primary focus, however, will be quantitative data in sociology, psychology, education science, political science and economics. These include microdata (coded numerical responses to surveys with a separate record for each individual respondent) and macrodata (aggregate figures, e.g. country level economic indicators).
Find out more:
National development plans for data services in the ERA & media packs (CESSDA SaW project)
]]>The archive will collect data across a range of social science disciplines. This includes traditional-scale quantitative and qualitative data. The primary focus will be on quantitative data (surveys and several registers) in the disciplines of sociology, political science, education science, communication science, psychology, library and information science, public health, and economics. Qualitative social sciences data require a different approach and will be added to the data collection at a later stage, in close cooperation with other stakeholders that have experience in working with such data (e.g. cultural heritage institutions, CLARIN centre, digital humanities centres).
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National development plans for data services in the ERA & media packs (CESSDA SaW)
]]>LiDA digital catalogues contain social survey data, historical statistics and data about Lithuanian political system. LiDA services also are available through the catalogue of the Lithuanian Virtual Library. All the metadata are bilingually documented in English and Lithuanian. LiDA is cooperating with other data archives worldwide in sharing data collections, data management and preservation standards as well as best practice in archive administration.
News and events (in English)
News (in Lithuanian)
New data sets (in Lithuanian)
Research Council of Lithuania
News (in English)
]]>The focus of the data service is on both quantitative and qualitative data in the social sciences. This includes the following areas: sociology, psychology, education sciences, law, political science, economics, business and management, and other social science disciplines. Contemporary, as well as historical data, are considered for archiving by the data service.
Find out more:
National development plans for data services in the ERA & media packs (CESSDA SaW)
Our core services are: DataverseNL for short-term data management, EASY for long-term archiving and NARCIS, the national portal for research information. By participating in (inter)national projects, networks and research, DANS contributes to continued innovation of the global scientific data infrastructure. Open if possible, protected if needed. DANS is an institute of the Dutch Academy KNAW and funding organisation NWO.
Training
DANS supports researchers (indirectly) e.g. in organising training sessions together with RDNL Essentials 4 Data Support and CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide. DANS participates in many European projects, training being a component such as EOSC-hub, EOSCpilot, OpenAIRE-Advance. As a result DANS is involved in organising workshops and providing webinars mainly around research data management, FAIR data and certification.
Find out more about training on our local website.
News (in English)
News (in Dutch)
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap
News (in Dutch)
News (in English)
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
De Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
News (in Dutch)
Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van wetenschappen
News (in Dutch)
]]>Our collection aims to encompass quantitative and qualitative research data in various disciplines including anthropology, sociology, political science, communication science, psychology, law, education science, economics, business and management, demography, and related social science disciplines.
Find out more:
National development plans for data services in the ERA & media packs (CESSDA SaW)
]]>Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research is the result of a merger between NSD (Norwegian Centre for Research Data), Uninett AS and Unit – the Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research.
The agency, which is organised as a public administrative body, has around 370 employees. Its head office is in Trondheim, with branches in Bergen and Oslo.
Training
SIKT organises regular courses and training for researchers, students and administrative staff. You can either join a ready-made programme or have a personalised course.
They hold courses in data management, data protection in a research context, and in data archiving and sharing.
Their advisers can hold a course at your institution, participants can attend a course at SIKT, or the course can be taken online.
Ministry of Education and Research
News (in English)
CESSDA page on the website of the ministry.
]]>With regard to the national context, APIS, together with the national node of the European Social Survey - ERIC, form the Production and Archive of Social Science Data (PASSDA) which is part of the Portuguese Roadmap of Research-Infrastructures, launched by the national funding agency FCT in 2015. PASSDA aims at the production, analysis and archiving of data provided by national and international social sciences studies. Its institutional partners/nodes are: Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS/UL); Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES/UC); Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP/UL); Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG/UL); ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL).
]]>Currently DCS can preserve and disseminate all types of data, both quantitative and qualitative, through:
- FORS data portal SEEDSbase and
- Dataverse platform.
DCS collects data and information across a range of social science disciplines: economics, education, employment and labour, environment, conservation and land use, health, history, industry and management, law, crime and legal systems, media, communication and language, political science, psychology, sociology, society and culture, social welfare policy and systems.
Find out more:
National development plans for data services in the ERA & media packs (CESSDA SaW)
Since 2014, the Slovak Archive of Social Data is an observer of CESSDA. The participation of SASD in CESSDA is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic.
News (in Slovak)
The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic
Ministerstvo školstva, vedy, výskumu a športu Slovenské republiky
News (in Slovak)
Slovak Academy of Sciences
News (in Slovak)
]]>Its tasks are to acquire significant data sources within a wide range of social science disciplines of interest to Slovenian social scientists, review and prepare them for digital preservation, and to disseminate them for further scientific, educational and other purposes.
From 1997 to 2003 its operations were funded by MZT (Ministry of Science and Technology) as a specialised information centre for social science. Since 2004, the funding of operations has been provided by MVZT (Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology) within the infrastructure programme "Network of research infrastructure centres at the University of Ljubljana". The Social Science Data Archive reports about its work to the Council of ADP (which consists of eminent social scientists), and ARRS (Slovenian Research Agency).
ADP has been a member of the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives – CESSDA since 1998.
Training
Slovenian Social Science Data Archives (ADP) is a national research infrastructure for social sciences. Within its mission, the ADP collects and preserves important data sources from a wide range of social science disciplines, interesting for analyzing the Slovenian society. As a part of an ADP’s data catalogue data sets are available for further use in scientific, educational and other purposes. ADP’s training activities cover research data management and data discovery for students, researchers, librarians, teachers. ADP is also involved in training activities for future data archivists and trainers.
Find out more about training on our local website.
News (in Slovenian)
Blog (in Slovenian)
Ministry of Education, Science and Sport
Ministrstvo za izobraževanje, znanost in šport
News (in English)
Research Infrastructures Roadmap 2011-2020 (CESSDA mentioned on pages 15-19)
National strategy of open access to scientific publications and research data in Slovenia 2015-2020 (adopted by Government on the 3rd of September 2015)
Open Access Slovenia
]]>At SND, metadata and research data can be described and made accessible through the system DORIS, and published in our research data catalogue. Published data can be reused globally for secondary analyses, new research, feasibility studies, reviews of research results, and education. The main principle is for research data to be as open as possible, and as protected as necessary.
Training
SND organises workshops for researchers/postgraduates and discussion forums on open science, research data and research data management. Our data management web resources feature advice on managing data over the lifespan of a research project. “BAS Online” is our online course on data management with a primary target audience of data access units at Swedish universities.
Find out more about training on our local website (in Swedish).
News (in English)
News (in Swedish)
Ministry of Education and Research
News (in Swedish)
News (in English)
Swedish Research Council
Curie is a Swedish web magazine devoted to the world of research.
List of research infrastructures that includes CESSDA
]]>Its primary activities consist of:
- Production of survey data, including national and international surveys.
- We acquire, document, preserve and disseminate high-quality quantitative and qualitative data. We also make these data and services known and promote a research culture of data sharing and secondary analysis for the social sciences in Switzerland. Our platform SWISSUbase facilitates research data management and data archiving for all social science disciplines.
- Research in empirical social sciences, with focus on survey methodology.
- Consulting services for researchers in Switzerland and abroad.
FORS is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Lausanne.
Training
FORS offers workshops and training on areas of survey methodology, as well as on data access and data sharing. We also offer trainings on aspects of research data management, such as DMPs, informed consent, anonymisation, and data preparation.
Find out more about training on our local website.
News and events (in English)
The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI
]]>The Kyiv archive was created to preserve data from social surveys conducted in Ukraine and to make such data easily and freely accessible to all interested persons or entities both in Ukraine and abroad. Currently it is the only archive in Ukraine which collects, preserves and provides open access to sociological data for a wide range of users. The Data Bank already has a host institution and funding institution: Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
The Data Bank stores and shares data from the social sciences. We do not prioritise specific disciplines, however the current collection contains mainly survey data for sociology and political sciences, which reflects the data provided by depositors. Both quantitative and qualitative traditional-scale data for the period from the earliest studies in modern Ukraine history (1989-1991) up until now can be stored in the archive. However, for the time being we only have quantitative data.
Find out more:
National development plans for data services in the ERA & media packs (CESSDA SaW)
We provide a single point of access to a wide range of secondary data including large-scale government surveys, international macrodata, business microdata, qualitative studies and census data.
All are backed with extensive support, training and guidance to meet the needs of data users, owners and creators.
Training
The UK Data Service has an extensive training events programme of webinars, face-to-face workshops and user conferences, covering a range of topics including data discovery and awareness raising, data skills, methods and research data management training. We also have an extensive range of online training materials for using data and RDM skills to help embed good data practices in research and optimise data sharing.
Find out more about training on our local website.
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