Guidebook “Discover-Cite-Document: Research Data in the Social Sciences and Economics” published
Posted: September 18th, 2014 | Author: Sven | Filed under: EDaWaX, German, Research Data | Tags: data citation, data documentation, data sources, Guidebook, persistent identifiers | Comments Off on Guidebook “Discover-Cite-Document: Research Data in the Social Sciences and Economics” published
After almost eight months of intense collaborative work, we are happy to announce the release of a guidebook on research data in the social sciences and economics. The idea of writing the guidebook was born in the course of a panel session on last year’s annual meeting of the “Verein für Socialpolitik” (VfS), the largest German-speaking economists association, where Jutta Günther (Halle Institute for Economic Research), Klaus Tochtermann (ZBW), Gert G. Wagner (German Data Forum and DIW Berlin) and Stefan Winkler-Nees (German Research Foundation) discussed both the potential and the need of data sharing in applied economics.
The panellists assessed that there currently is a lack of information on data documentation and citation in academic education.
Consequently, together with our partners from DIW Berlin, GESIS and the German Data Forum, we started to gather information on these topics. One year after the initial panel discussion, the hot off the press booklet was presented at this year’s annual meeting of the Verein für Socialpolitik two weeks ago.
