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The longstanding culture in the social sciences of making data accessible is one to value
Evidence-based social policy depends on access to rich supplies of high-quality data. But how can we create, curate, enrich and reuse data already collected by government departments and researcher...
Access to sensitive data for research: ‘The 5 Safes’
In this post, originally published on JISC’s Research Data Management blog, Louise Corti and Richard Welpton from UK Data Service (UKDS) talk about the services they provide to UK researcher...
Building an international data access architecture; a technical perspective
We’re all things technical! Fiona Cameron, Application Developer at the UK Data Service, discusses exciting developments from the Architecture Task Force sessions at the Statistical Informati...
The Great British Class Survey now available from the UK Data Service
Daniel Laurison and Mike Savage, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, discuss the Great British Class Survey and the exciting possibilities for research and policy now it is avail...
Helping depositors share data: negotiating away difficult licence conditions
Karen Dennison, the UK Data Service’s Collections Development Manager, discusses a new initiative to free data in our collection from overly-restrictive access conditions.
Scientific Data approves UK Data Service as recommended data depository
Varsha Khodiyar, Data Curation Editor, Scientific Data, writes on behalf of the journal to announce that the UK Data Service’s ReShare online data repository for the archiving and sharing of resear...