News
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Recent News
- News Release: Machine-actionable study descriptions in DDI-Codebook 2.5 Format
- News Release: Use of FSD data grew at a more moderate pace than in previous years
- News Release: Christmas and New Year closing times
- News Release: Customers express high satisfaction with FSD's services and data
- News Release: Changes in FSD agreements for a smoother archiving process
- News Release: FSD reduces its use of the former Twitter
All events organised by FSD
For current or upcoming events in English check the events listing.
You can also find an overview of all seminars, webinars or confenreces organised by the FSD.
FSD Bulletin
FSD Bulletin is the electronic newsletter of the Finnish Social Science Data Archive.
The Bulletin provides information and news related to the data archive and social science research.
Timeline
- News Release: Machine-actionable study descriptions in DDI-Codebook 2.5 Format
- News Release: Use of FSD data grew at a more moderate pace than in previous years
- News Release: Christmas and New Year closing times
- News Release: Customers express high satisfaction with FSD's services and data
- News Release: Changes in FSD agreements for a smoother archiving process
- News Release: FSD reduces its use of the former Twitter
- News Release: A New Information Management System for FSD: Brief Pause in Data Publishing in November
- News Release: CESSDA Data Catalogue can now be searched based on keywords
- News Release: Summer 2023 opening hours
- Article: The winding road to GDPR compliance
- Article: Building capacity and ensuring competence in FSD's IT Services
- Article: The road travelled for CESSDA Vocabulary Service
- News Release: Upsurge in the use of data archived by FSD continued in 2022
- News Release: Discovery Service GoTriple for social sciences and humanities
- Article: Active Service Provider for CESSDA ERIC: Building New European Services for Researchers
- News Release: COVID-19 related research data and FSD’s services
- News Release: Recently published data in English
- News Release: Christmas and New Year closing times
- News Release: The new longitudinal metadata portal Loda is now available, replacing the FNESdata portal
- Blog: Blog entry: Let’s Keep It FAIR
- News Release: Child-up research project data available on Aila – the datasets combine data from several countries
- News Release: Changes on Aila: new quantitative data files will be delivered to data users in SPSS SAV file format
- News Release: Towards a European network of FAIR-enabling Trustworthy Digital Repositories
- Article: The citizens’ pulse surveys chart the Finnish state of mind – over 40,000 respondents to date
- News Release: Summer 2022 opening hours
- News Release: Changes on Aila Data Service: No new codebooks and dataset guides in PDF format
- News Release: The second year of COVID-19 saw another upsurge in data use: top spot claimed by datasets freely …
- News Release: Christmas and New Year closing times
- Blog: Blog entry: A deeper dive into repository assessment
- News Release: Recently published data in English
- News Release: Possible interruptions in FSD's online services
- News Release: CESSDA is hiring a new Director
- News Release: FSD participates in the BY-COVID project to improve the discovery and use of COVID-19 data
- News Release: New version of ELSST thesaurus released
- News Release: FSD's data expertise is in international demand
- News Release: Summer 2021 opening hours
- News Release: Machine-readable study descriptions available only from Kuha2 after October
- News Release: FSD participates in facilitating international research on child and youth wellbeing
- Event: Webinar: What’s new in CESSDA Data Catalogue
- News Release: Looking at the bright side of 2020: data use skyrocketed in the year of COVID-19
- News Release: User Services phone number has changed
- News Release: Christmas and New Year closing times
- News Release: FSD and CESSDA-Finland included in Finland’s national research infrastructure roadmap
- News Release: Freely available datasets now licensed under the CC BY 4.0 license
- News Release: Aila Data Service to a new domain on November 26
- News Release: New theme page on Gender Diversity, LGBTIQ Lives and History
- News Release: FSD obtains CoreTrustSeal certification for years 2020–2022
- News Release: Recently published data in English
- Article: A trip down game music memory lane
- News Release: Upcoming data releases now listed in Aila
- News Release: New look for the Data Management Guidelines
- News Release: Research published on data downloads from Aila
- Article: Archived data facilitate research on children and families
- News Release: Annual Report 2019: Increased international cooperation and updates to services
- News Release: Summer 2020 opening hours
- Article: Steps towards being more FAIR
- Blog: Blog entry: FSD Enabling Cross-National Comparative Research
- Blog: Blog entry: FSD's Kuha2 software improves discoverability of European research data
- Event: Webinar: How to improve the quality of your repository? SSHOC and certification of repositories
- Blog: Blog entry: Supporting Certification – SSHOC Project Helps Digital Repositories in Becoming More …
- News Release: FSD implemented open source application to assist in processing qualitative data
- News Release: New server environment improves reliability and conserves energy
- Blog: Blog entry: Blogia ei ole englanniksi, mutta tämä tuli luotua, joten olkoon odottamassa …
- News Release: Qualitative data growing in popularity
- News Release: FSD website in new domain
- Article: Archived data are fit for both quantitative and qualitative theses
- News Release: Christmas and New Year closing times
- News Release: President of Tampere University Appoints New FSD Advisory Board
- News Release: New CESSDA Vocabulary Service has been launched
- News Release: TRIPLE project kicked off – FSD participates as a linked third party of CESSDA
- News Release: Promoter of Data Archiving Award to Sami Borg
- News Release: New version of ELSST thesaurus released
- Article: Data archives maintain comparative data
- Article: Unique software for unique needs
- Article: Opening access to research data a merit to researchers
- Article: Archiving and anonymisation in international research projects: EduMAP project leading the way
- News Release: Recently published data in English
- Article: Twenty years of pioneer work toward responsible open science
- Article: FSD Data Service personnel's favourite data
- Article: Longitudinal data series enables research on trends
- News Release: Aila Data Service is now part of the European Open Science Cloud
- Blog: Blog entry: SSHOC Project Charted (Meta)data Interoperability Problems with FSD at the Helm
- News Release: Data Management Guidelines chapter on anonymisation and personal data updated
- News Release: Summer 2019 opening hours
- News Release: Updates to FSD's email addresses
- News Release: Aila Data Service unavailable from 8:00 Thursday 25 April, 2019
- Blog: Blog entry: FSD's multilingual and qualitative data expertise brings in international visitors
- News Release: EOSC-Nordic proposal receives funding from European Commission
- News Release: Updated guidelines for informing research participants about personal data processing
- News Release: Archived research data for speedy studies – the number of data downloads for Bachelor’s and Master’s …
- News Release: FSD receives funding from Academy of Finland for developing national services
- News Release: Christmas and New Year closing times
- Blog: Blog entry: Translation and International Use of Research data
- Blog: Blog entry: Being trustworthy and FAIR requires people, processes, technologies and collaboration
- News Release: The new CESSDA website focuses on users, tools and services
- Blog: Blog entry: New user-friendly website for FSD
- News Release: New FSD website published
- News Release: Mari Kleemola to join international CoreTrustSeal Board
- News Release: Recently published data in English
- News Release: Summer 2018 opening hours
- News Release: New guidelines for data anonymisation available in English
- News Release: Annual Report 2017: New FSD strategy emphasises responsible open science
- News Release: Improved search features on Aila Data Service
- Blog: New contract models for archiving research data
- News Release: FNESdata portal provides a new way to compare election study data
- News Release: Maintenance window moving to Thursday
- News Release: FSD's services and data receive praise from users
- Article: European Services for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
- Article: CESSDA Catalogue Will Boost the Visibility of FSD's Data in Europe
- Article: Researchers Will Soon Have Access to Thousands of European Datasets through CESSDA Catalogue
- News Release: New Bulletin published
- Article: CESSDA Is an ERIC At Last and FSD Continues as Service Provider
- News Release: Open access data deposited and used actively in 2017
- News Release: Expert tour guide on data management released in December
- News Release: Initial results of FSD user survey
- News Release: Christmas and New Year closing times
- Blog: Blog entry: Let There Be Digital Preservation – A View from the Data Archive
- News Release: FSD’s Finland 100 project culminates with the release of one more theme page
- News Release: Finland becomes member of CESSDA ERIC
- Event: Open house at FSD in celebration of the Nordic Archives Day
- News Release: New theme page on past and future available
- News Release: FSD releases new open source tool for sharing metadata
- News Release: News Archive
- News Release: FSD shuts down Swedish data catalogue - data in Swedish continue to be archived
- News Release: FSD services and data used more than ever before
- Event: Making Nordic Health Data Visible. Meeting 3