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The catalogue provides direct and free online access to the metadata of the surveys and databases that the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) has conducted since the 1940s. It also provides access to some of the open access databases produced at Ined. The catalogue is based on NADA,...

Authentication service used in SWISSUbase (FORS archiving and dissemination platform)

Polymorph is a service used for converting SPSS and STATA files to CSV files for long term storage in open standards. Polymorph licensing is unclear yet (tool was developed to answer FORS needs). Also, the tool is still under development and is now accessible as a service in a website.

DeVisu provides a detailed view of datasets' variables. All questions, answers' categories (with codes and labels) and answers' distribution (number of cases and percentages) are available. DeVisu provides thus a nice complement of SWISSUbase for secondary users. For each dataset described in DeV...

da|ra is a DOI registration agency for social and economic data. GESIS offers a service of DOI registration of research data for data centers or data archives seeking to make their data permanently available for referencing and citing.

NSD offers a tool for creating a data management plan. It is a functional tool for writing and updating a DMP dynamically. The resulting DMP is stored and is avialable via login at NSD, and can be downloaded. Further functionalities will be added (e.g. the possibility to share the DMP with other...

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 3,000 concepts...