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?

Inside AUSSDA
 

Have you ever wondered how social science questionnaires were formulated in Austria in 1955? What were main research fields in the 1980s? Are you looking for general election exit poll data from the 90s?

Inside AUSSDA
 

AUSSDA attended this year's Dataverse Community Meeting at Harvard University to present pyDataverse, a newly developed tool for our data repository Dataverse, to 180 participants.

Data
 

As part of a project, Corinna Mayerl and her colleagues at SORA have developed 25 voter transition analyses based on the election results of all national elections in Austria since 1919. The election results are now available in the AUSSDA Dataverse.

Data
 

Scientific work is associated with many citations. Literature presents only one of many types of sources. But how does one cite data correctly?

Inside AUSSDA
 

EOSC-Pillar will help to build the European Open Science Cloud, one of the most ambitious research infrastructure initatives of our time. AUSSDA at the Vienna University Library leads a work package, which surveys national open research data undertakings in five countries.

CESSDA ERIC
 

Metadata – information on research data – are of great importance to ensure that one can find and reuse data. In Europe, metadata follow a standard set by the CESSDA ERIC Metadata Office.

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