Resources and Training
Find guidance and training on research data management in the social sciences
ISSDA Webinars
Find out more about ISSDA and research data management
View previous ISSDA webinars on the ISSDA YouTube Channel, including:
- Introduction to the Irish Social Science Data Archive
- Data Management Basics for Social Scientists
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide (DMEG)
(opens in a new window)Learn about research data management in the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide(opens in a new window) (DMEG). The DMEG aims to put social scientists at the heart of making their research data findable, understandable, sustainably accessible and reusable (FAIR).
You will be guided by different European experts who are - on a daily basis - busy ensuring long-term access to valuable social science datasets, available for discovery and reuse at one of theCESSDA social science data archives.
FAIR Data Resources
Check out the following resources for guidance on FAIR data.
(opens in a new window)Use this (opens in a new window)Checklist by Jones and Grootveld (2017) to check how FAIR your data are.
(opens in a new window)FORCE-11 - The FAIR Data Principles
A set of guiding principles to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable