Research data is all data arising in research context such as e.g. audio recordings of interviews, results of experiments, surveys etc.

It is advisable to decide at the very outset of a research project, in what repository the data should be saved and made available in the long term. You can save time and effort if you take into account the guides for data transfer of repositories from the very beginning.

See below for checklists, guidelines and other links.

There are databases, which contain survey data or statistical aggregated data and repositories, which further include the results of research projects and give you the opportunity to sustainably save your research data.

Survey data

• Consortium for the Social, Behavioural, Educational and Economic Science
• ZBW Journal Data Archive
• GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences
• Ifo Time-series
• SOEP Socio-Economic Panel

Statistical aggregated data

• Research Data Centres of the Federal Statistical Office and the statistical offices of the Länder

 Repositories

• Data Service Center for business and organizational data
• Datorium of the GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences
• DepositOnce of the TU Berlin

• Checklist for a data management plan of the Digital Curation Centre
• Data management plan for NSF grants
• Guidelines for data management in Horizon 2020

• DDI: Metadata specification for the social and behavioural sciences
• JEL Classification System of the American Economic Association 
• German Council for Social and Economic Data: Metadata
• European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST)

• CESSDA research data management
• Guide to social science data preparation and archiving
• The Leiden manifesto for research metrics - 10 principles to guide research evaluation
• Uk data archive managing and sharing data