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The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. It is owned and published by the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and its national Service Providers. The thesaurus consists of over 3,300 concepts...

This document sets out criteria for selecting and appraising data collections across the UK Data Service. A coordinated and robust approach to appraisal is required to ensure that: • Acquisition decisions will be based on explicit priorities and criteria which can be justified. • Ingest activitie...

AUSSDA provides this manual to guide AUSSDA accredited self-depositors through the self-deposit process. The manual offers guidance on the entire deposit process and provides detailed step-by-step instructions on how data and documentation material need to be prepared in order to be ready for the...

This document is the unchanged update of the CESSDA PID Policy 2019 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3611327). It includes the updated CESSDA PID Policy Principles and provides the latest recommendations and Best Practice examples. The CESSDA ERIC Persistent Identifier Policy is intended to suppor...

The CESSDA Data Access Policy has been developed to provide a set of principles for CESSDA Service Providers (SPs) covering common standards for the provision of data and metadata access. The policy also aims to demonstrate CESSDA’s commitment to open science while protecting both privacy and int...

This paper discusses FSD’s and ADP’s data acquisition policies in relation to their general archival development strategy.

Research data management explained in detail by UKDA.

Manual on how to deposit data at UKDA

Description of how to deposit data at CSDA and what benefits it has for data producers and research community

Information regarding the deposit procedure at ADP. Two phases compose the deposit procedure to the ADP that is the phase of evaluation and the phase of ingest of a study.