Tools

Information for students on how to find, use, and reference data in SND's research data catalogue.

The CESSDA SaW Capability Development Model (CESSDA-CDM) is a structured collection of elements that identify and describe the characteristics of effective preservation processes and activities. Building on established frameworks for trustworthy data preservation and the CESSDA community’s prior...

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...

Description of terms and conditions under which users can access services of UK Data Service, including the example of UKDS end user licence.

User declaration form used at TARKI, which could serve as an example for other establishing SPs.

This webpage presents the persistant identifiers used by DANS - DOIs - and reports FAQ on DOIs by reserachers.

The CodebookExplorer is a programme which gives easy retrieval possibilities to interested users for databases of specific topics. The CodebookExplorer has the following functions: search for keywords in study or variable descriptions, compare question texts, make simple analysis like frequencies...

This handbook deals with legal and ethical regulations relevant for the use of personal data in research and copyright issues. In addition, it refers to the debate on the draft of GDPR.

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...