Open Science and Data Management

Discussion paper of the Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA 2019)

Data Management Framework for Anthropological Research. Discussion Paper of the Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA) 178 KB

EU position papers, laws and regulations

The Berlin Declaration (2003)
General Data Protection Regulation (2018)

Swiss policy papers

Federal Act on Data Protection (revised 2019)

Strategy Digital Switzerland (Swiss Federal Council 2018)

Open Science Policy of the SAGW/ASSH (2019)

Open Science Action Plan (swissuniversities) (2019)

SNSF Documents

Funding Regulations (2015)

Open Access to Publications (2018)

Open Research Data (2018)

NSF Guidelines on FAIR Principles (PDF)

Data Storage and Management Platforms in Switzerland

FORSbase (hosted at UniL)

DaSCH (hosted at UniBas)

FORS Guide n° 3 " (2019): "Ethics in the Era of Open Research Data: Some Points of Reference"

FORS Guide n° 5 (2019): "The Informed Consent as Legal and Ethical Basis of Research Data Production"

FORS Guide n° 7 (2019): "How to Draft a DMP from the perspective of the social sciences, using the SNSF template"

FORS Guide n° 11 (2020): "Data Anonymisation: Legal, Ethical and Strategic Considerations"

Other Initiatives

Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrety and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Sciences (2020)

GO FAIR Initiative

CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance (PDF) by The Global Indigenous Data Alliance