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The German Data Forum (RatSWD) is pleased to announce a Best Practice Collection. This collection provides information around the topic of research ethics in the research process for different user groups. The portal "Best-Practice Research Ethics" sees itself as an open and complementary offer. It is available in German at konsortswd.de/ratswd/best-practice-forschungsethik /.

The Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG ) published its position paper on Academic Publishing as a Foundation and Area of Leverage for Research Assessment. The position paper contributes to strengthening the framework conditions in the research system in a way that is appropriate to scholarship as well as providing input to national and international …

The Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG ) is pleased to announce the 6th ORCID DE Workshop titled "ORCID in extended contexts. Results and perspectives of persistent identifiers in science and culture" (ORCID in erweiterten Kontexten. Ergebnisse und Ausblick von persistenten Identifiern in Wissenschaft und Kultur). The workshop will be held online in …

The annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) is please to announced titled the IASSIST 2022 "Data by Design: Building a Sustainable Data Culture". The conference will be held June 7th - 10th, 2022 in Gothenburg, Sweden. More details are available at: …

DataCite and Make Data Count (MDC) are pleased to announce the webinar titled "EXPLORE: the need for an open classification system" which will be held on April 7th, 2022, 3-4pm. The Make Data Count (MDC) is a scholarly change initiative, made up of researchers and open infrastructure experts, building and advocating for evidence-based open data metrics. The second webinar of "DataCite Make Data …

The Research Data Centers (RDCs) of the Statistical Offices of the Federation and the Federal States is pleased to announce the conference "Research with official Micro-Data". It will be held at Landesbetrieb Information und Technik, Statistisches Landesamt, Düsseldorf on May 17th – 18, 2022. The call for abstracts is addressed to researchers from Germany and abroad who work and have worked with …

The German Economic Association (Verein fuer Socialpolitik – VfS ) is pleased to announced its annual conference 2022 "Big Data" which will be held on September 11th – 14th, 2022 at the University Basel, Switzerland. The VfS Annual Conference consists of an Open Meeting with mixed topics and of a core conference with invited lectures concerning "Big Data in Economics". Presentations and Organised …

The 17th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2022) will be held on June 6th – 9th, 2022 at the Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver, Colorado, USA. The conference theme is Building Trust Together: Integrating, Collaborating & Sharing. OR2022 will provide an opportunity to explore and reflect on the ways repositories enable trust, integration, collaboration and sharing. It will give …

In the course of the adaptation of the membership and fee model by DataCite , GESIS founded the DARA Consortium at the end of 2020. The DARA Consortium organisations comprises currently 58 social and economic science data-holding institutions from Germany and abroad. GESIS is the leading Consortium Organisation and runs together with the ZBW the DOI Registration service da|ra. The Consortium uses …

The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) is pleased to announce the 14th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2022). It will be held from June 30th to July 1st, 2022 at DIW Berlin. The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP (including the SOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) and LIS/LWS data) with the opportunity to present and …