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RESOURCES LIBRARY

A research hub can centralise all relevant data management and sharing resources for researchers and staff in a single location: on an intranet site, website, wiki, shared network drive or within a virtual research environment.

This resource library can contain relevant data policy and guidance documents, templates, tools and exemplars developed by the centre, as well as external policy and guidance resources or links to such resources. Good practices used by particular researchers or projects can be used as exemplars for others, so that they can be shared.

A resources library might contain both locally created and external resources.

Locally created documents

  • a centre data inventory
  • local information on acts and regulations relating to data
  • statement on copyright of research data and outputs
  • statement of institutional IT data management and existing back-up procedures
  • statement on data sharing
  • statement on retention and destruction of data
  • file naming convention guidance
  • version control guidance
  • data inventory for individual projects
  • template consent forms and information sheets which take data sharing into account
  • example ethical review forms
  • data anonymisation guidelines
  • transcription guidance

External resources

A QUICK GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVE  

1 of 10: We provide continuous access to the UK’s largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences
2 of 10: We hold thousands of data collections for social science research and teaching, quantitative and qualitative
3 of 10: Each of our data collections has a unique persistent identifier (DOI) that makes it easier to find and cite
4 of 10: We hold the only copy of many of the UK's large national surveys charting social research back decades
5 of 10: We are an established national archive at the forefront of managing, preserving, sharing and delivering data
6 of 10: We are certified to ISO 27001, the information security standard, and helped develop the Data Seal of Approval
7 of 10: We are a collaborative organisation supporting emerging and existing creators and users of data
8 of 10: We provide best practice guidance and training in managing and sharing research data
9 of 10: You won’t be able to find your family records on our site. You should visit a genealogical site instead
10 of 10: We don’t provide ready-made statistics, but using Nesstar you can view frequencies from popular surveys
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