Open Science Tools

ARGOS supports researchers in learning and applying best practices for creating open and FAIR data management plans (DMPs). This includes creating machine actionable DMPs, complying with DMP requireme…

BERD Data Portal is a data repository. You can search and browse various types of data relevant for research in business studies, economics and social sciences. Each dataset is described using compreh…

DataCite is an international initiative to support access to research data. On the one hand, it offers an international search machine for research results in which a search for registered datasets is…

Emporion is a platform for Open Research Data and data papers from social and economic history. It allows searching for Research Data and data papers. Likewise, time series, historical statistical and…

Various providers offer data for the social, behavioural, educational and economic sciences. KonsortSWD offers the possibility of searching for social and economic data in most of the 39 research data…

The License Clearance Tool is a wizard for selecting a suitable licence, for example for data sets or software. It offers two approaches for "clearance": On the one hand, a clearance based on an exist…

OpenAIRE EXPLORE is an international search machine for research results, including research data, software and publications run by the non-profit, community-driven initiative OpenAIRE.

Open Big Data is a directory containing curated and open big datasets and publications for research in business, economics and social sciences. Focusing on FAIR research data, each dataset comes with …

The Public License Selector helps in the selection of a suitable licence for the publication of software and data. You are asked a series of questions, which help to filter the number of hits so you c…

RDMO (Research Data Management Organiser) supports institutions and researchers in the research data management of their projects. It makes it possible to compile all relevant planning information in …

The Registry of Research Data Repositories (Re3data) can help in the search for published research data and in the selection of a suitable repository. It offers a searchable directory of all the main …

German research infrastructures can be found via the DFG-funded information portal RIsources (German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / DFG). The research infrastructures listed pr…

SowiDataNet|datorium is a research data repository for the fields of social sciences and economics. It enables researchers to share quantitative primary and secondary data easily and securely. The res…

The ZBW Journal Data Archive is a free-of-charge service for publishers of commercial and economics journals. The aim is to offer the journals an easy-to-use infrastructure for the management as well …