Tools

This guide helps drafting a data management plan (DMP) from the perspective of the social sciences. Drawing on the model developed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, it provides recommendations and tips on how to address the main topics of the DMP so that it fulfils the funder’s requiremen...

There is an urgent need to improve the infrastructure supporting the reuse of scholarly data. A diverse set of stakeholders—representing academia, industry, funding agencies, and scholarly publishers—have come together to design and jointly endorse a concise and measureable set of principles that...

Drawing on the Swiss context, this Guide illustrates key considerations in crafting a coherent anonymization strategy that is compliant with legal requirements and ethical norms. It shows how to strike the right balance between anonymization and other data protection measures, namely informed con...

The trend toward and the obligation for sharing and long-term preservation of research data is in conflict with increasingly restrictive data protection legislation and practices on personal data in Europe, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Qualitative research data, in parti...

This chapter in FSD's Data Management Guidelines is divided into the four parts: Copyright, Agreements between researchers, Agreement concerning the transfer of rights and Authorship in scientific publication and research data.

The CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide (DMEG) is designed by European experts to help social science researchers make their research data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). This is the offline version of the DMEG developed in 2017 and updated in 2019, available as a traini...

This report assesses a selection of state-of-the-art guidelines and recommendations for formation of preservation policies. Furthermore it describes, compares & analyses the scope of policy-rules, and the requirements they set for the SSH domain. Based on the assessment of the policy rules and pr...

The YouTube channel of UK Data Service with a number of video tutorials and webinars covering a range of topics and aimed at the data service's users.

This OpenAIRE webinar gives recommendations for improve DMP templates based on their survey on the Horizon 2020 DMP template.

Good research data management is of great importance for high quality research. Implementing professional research data management from the start helps avoiding problems in the data creation and curation phases. The webinar is meant for future trainers, who will get acquainted with different meth...