Tools

Some useful recommendations for researchers on how to prepare the data for deposit and sharing.

This document describes the conditions of use that any user of data from DANS Data Stations have to agree to.

These slides were used as teaching material for the course Responsible Research and Innovation – RRI in practice held at University of Milano Bicocca within the Doctoral School from 9th to 16th May 2022. The set of slides includes four topics: RRI in practice - Sara Casati Open Science and FAIR...

The webinar introduces different storage solutions for research projects, guide you through key data security measures throughout the research process, and present different preservation options and requirements. By the end of the presentation you will know how to define a strategy to protect you...

The webinar introduces researchers to the importance of data sharing and some key requirements to make data sharable, such as consent, documentation and anonymization. It then presented different solutions for data sharing and present in greater depth the new FORS online repository SWISSUbase. By...

In the social sciences in recent years, replication has received increased attention, as there has been a growing understanding that for research to be credible it is crucial that studies can be repeated. Replication allows for determining the validity of scientific conclusions. This FORS Guide p...

This document is useful when researchers are entering a dataset or a data file in order to deposit their data. It defines and explains the categories of controlled vocabulary lists used in the SWISSUbase metadata schema for the social sciences. The categories were chosen based on the set created...

This document provides a description of all metadata (mandatory and non mandatory) for creating studies and depositing data in SWISSUbase.

The SWISSUbase User Guide will guide you through the most important steps of submitting your project and depositing your research data.

UKDS deposit licence agreement.