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2009

• FSD Bulletin 27 (2/2009) now published. (23 September 2009)

• The telephone numbers of the Finnish Social Science Data Archive have changed, because the Archive switched from landline to mobile phones in June. New numbers are updated on the web site. Fax number of the Archive did not change. (22 June 2009)

• The Data Archive will move in July: Our website will be down and customer services closed from July 6 to 10, 2009
  
  The Finnish Social Science Data Archive will move on Tuesday July 7, 2009 to Åkerlundinkatu 5. Our new building is located right behind the University Library Linna. All our services will be closed from July 6-10, 2009. Our website and other online services are expected to be down too from July 6-8.
  
  The telephone numbers of the Data Archive will change too. New numbers will be announced later (see contact information). Old numbers should work for the time being. The Data Archive's postal address and staff's email addresses do not change. Email will be functioning normally during the move, but there will delays in responses.
  
  For more information:
  
  - email: fsd [at] uta.fi
  - tel: +358 40 190 1432
  - FSD staff contact information (10 June 2009)

• FSD Bulletin 26 (1/2009) now published. (11 May 2009)

• The FSD has published guidelines for and concrete examples of data management planning, both for quantitative and qualitative data. Nowadays, several funders require researchers to append a data management plan to their research plan. A data management plan describes how research data will be collected, how the data will be used and stored during the research project, and how its reuse will be enabled and long-term preservation ensured after the original research is completed.

• Online Registration to the IASSIST/IFDO 2009 conference has now been opened. The conference will be held at Tampere, Finland, 26-29 May, and is hosted by the Finnish Social Science Data Archive and the University of Tampere. The theme of the conference is Mobile Data and the Life Cycle. To secure accommodation of your choice, we recommend registering as early as possible. Early Bird rate is valid until March 24.
  More information on the conference website.

• The FSD has published guidelines for anonymisation of data, both for quantitative and qualitative data. Though compliant with the Finnish legislation, the guidelines contain general tips and instructions, and may thus be useful to researchers and data depositors from other countries.

• FSD Bulletin 25 (3/2008) now published. (8 January 2009)

2008

• The data archive's servers will be renewed between 7th and 11th January 2009. The transition to the new system may cause short breaks in our services. Our website may be down occasionally and data delivery might be delayed. We are sorry for the inconvenience. (17 December 2008)

• The FSD conducted an Internet survey on the preservation and reuse of research data in Finnish universities, targeting humanities, social sciences and behavioural sciences. Download the report Open Access to and Reuse of Research Data - The State of the Art in Finland (PDF). (10 October 2008)

• New theme pages published on topics including religion and religiosity, sports and fitness services and the media.

• FSD Bulletin 24 (2/2008) now published. (7 July 2008)

• FSD Bulletin 23 (1/2008) now published. (26 June 2008)

• Our information service is open the whole summer. However, due to staff holidays delays in deliveries are possible in late June, July and August. For more information, please contact our information service at fsd@uta.fi. (19 May 2008)

• The FSD has now published the combined data files of the popular Finnish Voter Barometer series. FSD2276 contains the surveys from the years 1973 - 1990, and FSD2274 contains the years 1992 - 2005. More surveys will be added to the latter file as time goes on. The data have been translated into English, they are available at no cost for research purposes, and the codebooks can be read online. (18 February 2008)

• The Council of European Social Science Data Archives Research Infrastructure (CESSDA RI) was identified in 2006 by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) Roadmap exercise as an existing pan-European RI recommended for a major upgrade. The preparatory phase project for a major upgrade of the CESSDA RI has now been granted funding by the EC from its Seventh Framework Programme. The two-year project, the acronym of which is CESSDA PPP, was launched in January. 17 European data archives, including the FSD, participate in the project. (18 February 2008)
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• FSD Bulletin 22 (2/2007) now published. (13 February 2008)

2007

• The IASSIST 2009 Conference will be held in Tampere, Finland. It will be the 35th annual conference held by the IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology). Over 200 experts on data archiving, documentation and dissemination are expected to come to Tampere in May 2009. This will be the first time the conference is held in Finland.

• FSD Bulletin 21 (1/2007) now published. (5 April 2007)

• FSD Bulletin 20 (2/2006) now published (9 February 2007)

2006

• The FSD is offering new ways for you to find relevant data sets: our data catalogue can now be browsed by number, title, topic, keyword, or series. Another change is that the data catalogue has been divided into two main parts. The first part contains information on data that are archived at the FSD, and distributed by the archive. The second contains documentation on data that are held elsewhere, with information on access place and distributor.
  Data catalogue

• Our information service is open the whole summer. However, due to staff holidays delays in deliveries are possible in July. For more information, please contact our information service at fsd@uta.fi. (14 June 2006)

• FSD Bulletin 19 (1/2006) now available in English. (24 April 2006)

2005

• FSD Bulletin 18 (3/2005) now available in English. (07 December 2005)

• FSD Bulletin 17 (2/2005) now available in English. (23 June 2005)

• The telephone numbers of the Finnish Social Science Data Archive changed 30 May 2005, because the number of University telephone exchange was changed. The previous (03) 215 prefix was replaced by (03) 3551. For example, the FSD's service numbers have changed as follows:
  
  
  Old: tel. +358 3 215 8519, fax +358 3 215 8520
  New: tel. +358 3 3551 8519, fax +358 3 3551 8520.
  
  When calling to the old number, the call will be directed automatically to the new number for the time being. (6 June 2005)

• FSD Bulletin 16 (1/2005) now available in English. (20 April 2005)

• FSD Bulletin 15 (3/2004) now available in English. (8 February 2005)

• Redesigned access and agreement forms are available in various formats. The new forms are shorter and clearer than the previous versions and should thus facilitate the archiving process. (5 January 2005)

2004

• FSD will launch its redesigned website on April 16th, 2004. With this new design the FSD hopes to make data more easily available and make archive's webpages easy to read and navigate. (23 March 2004)

• FSDneWWs 13 (1/2004) now available in English. (3 March 2004)