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There is a misconception in the research community that the use of secondary data does not entail legal considerations. Secondary data is an intellectual property of the data owner, so any use of that data may require the data owner’s permission or may be subject to certain terms and conditions....

This Dataverse manual aims to provide a practical, user-friendly, and concise guide intended for typical end users of Dataverse. The manual includes instructions for the essential functions of Dataverse such as creating, managing and sharing Dataverse collections and datasets; a technical setup g...

This training event is devoted specifically to the visual discovery of research resources with the GoTriple platform, which is currently under development. It provides answers to the following questions, among others: How can GoTriple support exploring research topics with visual search? What is...

This SSHOC Legacy booklet covers the main outcomes of the SSHOC project, marking a major step towards the exploitation of tools and services during the project’s funding lifecycle and from there the path towards sustainability. The first part showcases the work performed by SSHOC partners to achi...

Figures and case studies related to accessing and reusing the data produced in the course of scientific production.

Research data is increasingly viewed as an important scholarly output. While a growing body of studies have investigated researcher practices and perceptions related to data sharing, information about data-related practices throughout the research process (including data collection and analysis)...

The ethical and legal issues relating to research process in social sciences involving human participants had raised the concerns of policymakers, lawyers and scientists for many years. This topic especially came to the spotlight as the new GDPR entered into force in 2018. Anne-Mette Somby presen...

The SHARC Interest Group of the Research Data Alliance was established to improve research crediting and rewarding mechanisms for scientists who wish to organise their data (and material resources) for community sharing. This requires that data are findable and accessible on the Web, and comply w...

The key issues in secondary analysis as a method. The introductory session briefly covers the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of your data. Quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis will be discussed with examples and issues of context, sampli...

Researchers, learn how to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR), how to assess the FAIRness of research data and which tools to use to make data more FAIR.