Spotlight on the Croatian Social Science Data Archive
CROSSDA is a national infrastructure public service whose role is to ensure the long-term preservation and dissemination of social science research data and Croatia is already a member of CESSDA. Hear from Acting Manager, Marijana Glavica.
CROSSDA is a national infrastructure public service whose role is to ensure the long-term preservation and dissemination of social science research data and is already a member of CESSDA. Hear from Acting Manager, Marijana Glavica.
The CESSDA Country Spotlight series showcases national service providers. We interviewed representatives of the national service providers, dear members of the CESSDA community. We asked them about the value CESSDA provides their data archive and vice versa.
The Croatian Social Science Data Archive
CROSSDA was established in 2019 when the Ministry of Science and Education decided to enter CESSDA Membership. At that time there were no data archives in Croatia, instead the Ministry supported the establishment of CROSSDA at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, which now serves as the national coordination centre for social science data curation.
CROSSDA is dedicated to providing comprehensive data management support to researchers throughout the entire project lifecycle and offers a service to researchers allowing them to publish their datasets connected to journal articles. The data archive ensures that the data are preserved and made reusable in the long-term.
CROSSDA is also an advocate for the introduction in Croatia of open access and open science policies that mandate scientists to share and preserve their data, while also providing the necessary infrastructure to support policy implementation.
Marijana Glavica on CROSSDA initiatives
“We started to cooperate with national journals in Social Science to develop data sharing policies for data journals” Marijana Glavica, Acting Manager at CROSSDA.
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