We are a data infrastructure for the social science community in Austria and offer a variety of research support services, primarily data archiving and help with data re-use. We make social science data accessible, creating opportunities for research and data reuse. Since July 2020, we have been certified with the Core Trust Seal (CTS) as a "trustworthy data repository".

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We archive a variety of social science data. The AUSSDA Dataverse is divided into several collections. Find all data sets archived with us easily online! Our user guide helps you with finding and downloading the data.

Teaching and learning with AUSSDA data - discover our new Dataverse!

Are you a lecturer and would like to find suitable data sets for teaching with just one click? Or are you a student looking for data for your thesis? We have compiled relevant datasets for you in one place. Find the overview and recommendations from methods lecturers here!

 What's new?

Data
 

Martin Haselmayer researches negative communication in politics and the media and its effects on democratic competition. He and a colleague have created a sentiment lexicon to analyse "negative campaigning", for example in Austrian National Council elections. AUSSDA asked him about the results of his research.

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If you want to be updated about new data sets, projects and events by the AUSSDA, you can now register for our newsletter.

Inside AUSSDA
 

Claudia Hackl is managing a project by Austrian universities for facilitating Open Educational Resources. In this interview with AUSSDA, she explains the benefits of Open Science for society, from the perspective of university teaching.

Inside AUSSDA
 

2020...what a year! At AUSSDA a lot has happened, here is a little review.

Service
 

For researchers at our partner universities, we have created a new option to publish datasets independently at the AUSSDA archive. Learn more about our Self-Deposit Service here!

Events
 

Everyone is talking about Open Science – but how does it affect every one of us, and what does society gain from this opening of science? AUSSDA has asked four experts for a video interview to answer this question.

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