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This guide provides an overview of data linkage, analyses the main advantages, and summarizes the challenges quantitative researchers and data practitioners face when working with multiple data sources. Moreover, this document aims to provide examples of the developments of data linkage in Switze...

The advent of Open Science poses a number of challenges for researchers with regard to research data management. Amongst the most salient is the necessary balance between data protection and openness. This guide aims to clarify the rights and obligations of researchers regarding the protection of...

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.

FORS does everything possible to provide open and easy access to data, while at the same time protecting the confidentiality of research participants and the rights of the data depositors. They rely on a combination of basic anonymization techniques (e.g., taking out identifying variables), acces...

This document contains the form that must be completed by End Users who intend using data obtained from the UK Data Archive/UK Data Service for teaching purposes.

UK Data Service SecureLab Registered Users must agree to this Secure Access User Agreement and any other document referred to herein before being issued credentials to access Controlled Data from the SecureLab.

This guide is for users of research data accessed via the UK Data Service through its online services provided by the UK Data Service. In particular, all users who obtain data available under a Special Licence Agreement or Controlled data, where disclosure risk is increased, are required to read...