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Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD)

The Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) is a national resource centre for research and education. It's mission is to preserve data collected to study Finnish society, people and cultural phenomena in the long term.

The Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD), an independent institute of the Tampere University, Finland, is a national research infrastructure for social sciences and related disciplines, such as health sciences and humanities. The FSD archives, promotes and disseminates digital research data for research, teaching and learning purposes. Most of the datasets are available to registered users, but a growing number are available under the CC BY license without registration. All services are free of charge. The FSD is also the national service provider for CESSDA, the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives. The FSD archives research data from the arctic area in Finland and the current data collections already contain such data. Browse the Aila data catalogue at: https://services.fsd.tuni.fi/?lang=en. More information on depositing data in the FSD: https://www.fsd.tuni.fi/en/services/depositing-data/.

FSD promotes open access to research data as well as transparency, accumulation and efficient reuse of scientific research. FSD also responsibly implements the FAIR data principles, which aim at making data and services Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable. FSD has been awarded the CoreTrustSeal (CTS) which is granted to an organisation that preserves digital research data in a reliable manner and enables the reuse of data.

Institution	Tampere University
Country	Finland
Infrastructure type	On-line collection or database
Disciplines	Education science Religion History and archaeology Sociology and cultural studies Political science and civics Journalism and communication Library information and archive Management and administration Environmental sciences Health and medicine Social work and counselling Sports and recreation
Language of operation	Finnish English
Keywords	data sharing acquisition database materials finland

Availability

Datasets in the online catalogue can be accessed at any time.

Dataset availability classes:
(A) openly available for all users without registration (CC BY 4.0),
(B) available for research, teaching and study,
(C) available for research only (including Master's, doctoral and Polytechnic/University of Applied Sciences Master's theses),
(D) available only by permission from the data depositor/creator.

Personal consulting on issues such as depositing data, research ethics concerning reuse, informing research participants and archived datasets is available during office hours.