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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....

Rules of good scientific practice as outlined by GESIS.

In this report we will identify and discuss the problems that may occur when preserving SSH data in the emerging European data preservation e-infrastructure. We consider the proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ongoing modernisation of the EU copyright framework as key as...

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

This chapter in FSD's Data Management Guidelines is divided into the four parts: Copyright, Agreements between researchers, Agreement concerning the transfer of rights and Authorship in scientific publication and research data.

This collection of webpages from FSD include best practice guidelines for managing research data across the whole life cycle of data. These guidelines can be useful for the archive staff as well as for data producers. The guidelines are very extensive and are divided in to eleven categories and a...

This webpage summarizes legal information of importance for the deposit of data files in EASY and for the use of data from EASY. It contains brief information about license agreement and general conditions of use, as well as DANS privacy regulation, liability and intellectual property rights. Fro...