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• The website Find – Cite – Document: Research Data in the Social and Economic Sciences by ZBW, gesis, and RatSWD addresses the handling of quantitative research data and provides useful information as a guide.
• Gesis Data Services offers services for the archiving and publication of research data.
• The Open Science Magazine from the Leibniz Information Center for Economics offers practical tools and guidance, as well as insightful articles and interviews with economists on the topic of open science.
• The FD Policy Generator helps you create a research data policy for your research project. You’ll be guided through a short questionnaire—based on your answers, the FD Policy Generator generates text modules that you can then use for your project’s internal research data policy.

• ZBW, GESIS & RatSWD (2014). Finding, Citing, Documenting: Research Data in the Social and Economic Sciences. doi: 10.4232/10.fisuzida2015.2
• Hoffstätter, U. & Linne, M. (2022). Data Access: An Introduction to Accessing Data from the Social, Behavioral, Educational, and Economic Sciences in Research Data Centers. KonsortSWD Working Paper 4/2022. Consortium for the Social, Behavioral, Educational, and Economic Sciences (KonsortSWD). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7347064
• RatSWD (Council for Social and Economic Data) (2023). Research Data Management in Small Research Projects—A Practical Guide. (RatSWD Output Series, 7th Term, No. 3). https://doi.org/10.17620/02671.72
• The Open Science Magazine of the Leibniz Information Center for Economics offers practical tools and guidance, as well as insightful articles and interviews with economists on the topic of Open Science.
• The guide “Expedition to Open Science Land—A Travel Guide for Economic Research” provides motivation and guidance on Open Science issues while also outlining concrete steps for application in business administration research: M. Sarstedt, D. Siegfried, M. Neumann et al. (2025). “Expedition into Open Science Land—A Travel Guide for Economic Research.” Leibniz Information Center for Economics. Available in German and English.

This is a list of recommended repositories related to economics. These are suitable for searching for published research data or for the publication of your own research data.

• Social and Economic History: Emporion
• Data Portal for Economic Sciences: GOVDATA
• Social and Economic Sciences: GESIS
• Social and Economic Sciences: SowiDataNet|datorium
• Qualitative Social Science Research Data: Qualiservice
• Measurement and Survey Instruments: ZIS – OA Repository for Measurement Instruments from GESIS

This is a list of recommendations for economics-related data journals. These are useful for searching for data papers and related published research data, or for increasing the visibility of your own published research data.

• Journal of Statistical Software: jstatsoft
• Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Data Observer section: jbnst
• Replication data for economics articles: ZBW – Journal Data Archive
• Open-access journal publishing data for replication studies: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE)

The National Research Data Infrastructure Association (NFDI) is dedicated to the cataloging, preservation, and accessibility of research data. It comprises 26 consortia that focus on individual academic disciplines. The following consortia are relevant to the field of business:

• Business Administration and Business Computing: BERD@NFDI
• Consortium for Business Administration: KonsortSWD
• Humanities and Economic Sciences: NFDI4Memory

• Recommendations of the Faculty of Economics on the Handling of Research Data (as of 2019)

• In addition to traditional research data, information technology often generates source code that is stored in software repositories such as GitHub. To help choose the right license for software, GitHub provides the decision-making guide Choose a license.
• Version control platform: BitBucket
• Code management platform: CodeOcean
• Developer platform: GitHub
• Software platform: SourceForge
• FDM services for data science & AI research: Services Lifecycle
• Resources for data science & AI research: 4DS Gateway
• Search for research software in repositories: Betty's (Re)Searchengine

• Biernacka, K. & Schulz, S. (2022). Research Data Management in information technology. https://doi.org/10.30819/5490
• Chue Hong, N. P. et al. (2022). FAIR Principles for Research Software (FAIR4RS Principles) (1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00068
• Lecture series on RDM in the data sciences: 4DS Lecture Series
• Best practices for the data sciences and AI research: Open Sciences Best Practices

This is a list of recommendations for computer science-related repositories and platforms. These are suitable for searching for published research data or for the publication of your own research data.

• Machine Learning Datasets: UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository
• Platform for sharing machine learning datasets: OpenML
• Directory of engineering-specific repositories: Data Collections Explorer
• Data repositories for information technology, electrical engineering, and systems engineering on re3data.org

This is a list of recommendations for economics-related data journals. These are useful for searching for data papers and related published research data, or for increasing the visibility of your own published research data.

• Journal of Open Source Software: JOSS
• Journal of Open Research Software: JORS
• Data Journal Software: SoftwareX

The National Research Data Infrastructure Association (NFDI) is dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and accessibility of research data. It comprises 26 consortia that focus on individual scientific disciplines. The following consortia are relevant to the field of information technology:

• Consortium for Information Technology and Media Informatics: NFDI4DataScience
• Consortium for Applied Information Technology: NFDIxCS

• Open Access Network on Open Access in Legal Scholarship
• OpenRewi is an initiative promoting open legal scholarship

• <intR>²Dok Repository of the Specialized Information Service for International and Interdisciplinary Legal Research