Tietoarkisto (FSD)

Tietoarkisto (Finnish Social Science Data Archive, FSD) promotes open access to research data as well as transparency, accumulation and efficient reuse of scientific research. FSD also responsibly implements the FAIR data principles, which aim at making data and services Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable. Efficient, fair and free services are the cornerstone of our activities. FSD has been awarded the CoreTrustSeal (CTS) which is granted to an organisation that preserves digital research data in a reliable manner and enables the reuse of data.

FSD is Finland’s national service provider for CESSDA the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives, which provides services to researchers internationally. The archive is a national resource centre funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture and Tampere University. In addition, FSD receives project funding for research infrastructure projects from the Academy of Finland and CESSDA.