Tools

This short tutorial shows you how to quickly and easily create and manage your social science project on SWISSUbase, the platform used by FORS – the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences. Step by step, the video guides you through the process of submitting your project, helping you com...

The new Federal Act on Data Protection (nFADP) is now effective in Switzerland. Do you have questions on what data protection laws imply for your research? Are you insecure how to share your data and related research materials while respecting the legal requirements? Do you want to know where to...

In the social sciences, requirements from funders and journals to make data available often present difficulties for researchers because of data protection issues. Anonymisation is a good solution for addressing the challenges of personal and sensitive data. This FORS Guide provides some practica...

In social science research there is a push towards open research and open data. Open Data implies that researchers make their data available to other researchers so that the data can be re-used. This Guide describes the requirements and provides researchers with guidance on how and where to share...

A guide with short answers to some of the most common questions that arise when doctoral students and researchers publish research data in Researchdata.se, a national research data portal provided by SND.

The online hands-on workshop was aimed at trainers and support staff covering critical elements of data sharing and available tools and resources for supporting Open Science including: • Open Science resources and Data Management Planning • Consent and Ethical considerations • Legislation and Lic...

Panel discussion webinar, where data protection experts from across Europe gave their views on what changes the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) brought for research, data archiving and data sharing and how researchers and institutions have implemented the GDPR. One year since the introd...

SND's policy for reviewing data and metadata This document describes the policy that SND has established in application to the review of data and metadata to be carried out before they are made available via the SND's research data catalogue. In the review process, data, metadata and documentatio...

The activities of the Slovenian Social Science Data Archives (ADP) are presented for the implementation of open data policies at PhD school of University of Ljubljana. The activities are part of the Archive's broader efforts to promote open science and a culture of data sharing that underpins tra...

SWISSUbase, the new research data service for the archiving and sharing of research data was launched for the social sciences on December 14, 2021. FAIR compliant, SWISSUbase provides archiving aligned with international standards; multi-lingual search capability; connectivity with European Resea...