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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...

CESSDA Service Providers are obligated to provide support to member countries where the national infrastructures are immature and/or fragile. This report proposes a model for sustainably providing support services to aid the development throughout the CESSDA Service Provider community and to aspi...

This deliverable contains the second output of task 3.3 – national development plans for establishing data services in the social sciences in non-CESSDA member countries in Europe. The goal of task 3.3 of CESSDA SaW was to draw up individual national development plans for aspiring CESSDA Service...

This is a follow-up of D3.2. The focus is on identifying what development steps can be proposed to tackle the obstacles in the way of achieving the widened and strengthened CESSDA ERIC. The maturity of data archive service (DAS) in most European countries was audited. The analysis contains elemen...

This introductory webinar is for anyone who is involved in the collection of data and is considering making (some of) their data available in accordance with funders’ requirements. More and more funders are requiring that research data be made available after completion of the research project, u...

Example of the guidance that an archive can develop to help data producers with data management by FORS.

FORS open access policy

FORS mission outlined and explained

This guide focuses on the data preparation phase, which starts after data collection and ends before their analysis. This first assessment of the “raw” survey data is crucial since data preparation can affect the quality of the data in a positive or negative way. After an overview of the differen...

The complete application for Core Trust Seal (CTS) by FORS (March 2018). CTS offers a process of self-evaluation for digital repositories. The certification process consists of a set of 16 criteria with which a repository must comply.