Resource Directory

NSD's strategy clarifies NSD's social mission, responsibilities and role, as well as the services NSD deliver to researchers and what their advantages are. The strategy highlights themes and focus areas that will be given priority in the future.

General terms and conditions for data use as developed by FSD.

Gpg4win enables users to securely transport emails and files with the help of encryption and digital signatures. Encryption protects the contents against an unwanted party reading it. Digital signatures make sure that it was not modified and comes from a specific sender. Gpg4win supports both re...

Kleopatra is a certificate manager and a universal crypto GUI. It supports managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates in the GpgSM keybox and retrieving certificates from LDAP servers.

Guides and support materials for researchers and project coordinators related with legal issues; copyright, licensing and research data; general data protection regulation and how to deal with sensitive data

Drawing on the Swiss context, this Guide illustrates key considerations in crafting a coherent anonymization strategy that is compliant with legal requirements and ethical norms. It shows how to strike the right balance between anonymization and other data protection measures, namely informed con...

This webpage explains the UK Data Service's security philosophy called the Five Safes Framework. It introduces and explains the set of principles which enable data services to provide safe access to data for research, meeting the needs of data protection, but also fulfilling the demands of open s...