Research Resources – List

The CBS research portal is a repository for publications, projects, student theses, press and media activities from Copenhagen Business School. Get public access to numerous Open Access full text publications written by CBS researchers.

Research and data management software for open science. OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration. OSF Institutions enhances transparency and increases the visibility of research outputs, accelerating discovery and reuse. Institutional members focus on generating and sharing research, and let OSF Institutions handle the infrastructure.

The aim of the NAR is to follow the course of development of individuals with autism over time, primarily through online questionnaires. We collect information on a wide range of topics related to the living situation of people with autism in the Netherlands. This way we can identify the differences and similarities between people with autism. The data from the NAR are valuable for scientific research. The NAR also helps people with autism to protect their interests and improve their quality of life. Parents of children with autism, people with autism, but also health care professionals and scientists all have questions about autism. Together, we can find answers to these questions. For instance, one person with autism may be able to hold a job, and have a satisfying social life, while the other one, despite similar cognitive skills, fails to do so. What causes such individual differences? What additional problems do individuals with autism develop? What are the benefits of having autism? What are success factors? By following a large group of people we can explore what factors have an impact on their quality of life.

The research carried out by the Netherlands Twin Register focuses on the role of heritability in mental and physical health. For instance, the NTR investigates why some people become more easily depressed than others, or why certain people get diabetes while others don’t. Other research areas include lifestyle and habits that influence health and disease, such as smoking, drinking and exercise.

FIRMBACKBONE is an organically growing longitudinal data-infrastructure with information on Dutch companies for academic research. Once it is ready, it will become available for researchers affiliated with universities in the Netherlands through ODISSEI, the Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations. FIRMBACKBONE is an initiative of and collaboration between Utrecht University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Why? The digitalization of our society and economy has enabled novel methods of data collection and analysis of companies. Such digital data are both deep (i.e., detailed) and long (i.e., over time) in scope and harbor much potential for creating new economic insights and applications. However, academic researchers in (applied) economics and adjacent fields (e.g., management, entrepreneurship, economic geography and history) currently lack access to a comprehensive and longitudinal data source on Dutch companies. Often-heard complaints from researchers are that such data are too expensive to obtain or not user-friendly. How? A “backbone” will be created that contains a list of company names and company numbers that are publicly accessible. We will enrich the data with additional public information (e.g., through web scraping of company websites) and by collaborating with local data suppliers.

ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations) is the national research infrastructure for the social sciences in the Netherlands. ODISSEI brings together researchers with the necessary data, expertise and resources to conduct ground-breaking research and embrace the computational turn in social enquiry. Through ODISSEI, researchers have access to large-scale, longitudinal data collections as well as innovative and diverse new forms of data.

DANS is the Dutch national centre of expertise and repository for research data. We help researchers make their data available for reuse. This allows researchers to use the data for new research and makes published research verifiable and reproducible. With more than 180,000 datasets and a staff of 60, DANS is one of the leading repositories in Europe.

The Imagebase presents highlights from the University Library of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It contains high quality images and detailed descriptions of various collections, a valuable source for both national and international research. What may you find in the Imagebase? On offer are: clay tablets and other objects from the Near and Middle East, engraved portraits of protestant leaders (ca. 1500), historical maps (before 1900), and many other resources. The images are of high quality with detailed descriptions which make them suitable for national and international researchers.

The special and historical collections comprise 26 separate collections (see overview, soon available in English: https://vu.nl/nl/over-de-vu/meer-over/zwaartepunten).
Focal points include Reformation prints, English prints, pamphlets and portraits.

Digital Humanities: because of their size, some sub-collections can be interesting for computational methods of research. We have made an overview of potentially interesting collections for digital humanities.

The repository of the URV serves Rovira i Virgili University as the digital repository for the institution’s research output created by the members of the URV. This includes unpublished articles (preprints), peer-reviewed articles (postprints), published articles, research datasets, end-of-degree and end-of-masters theses, doctoral theses, teaching materials, and other documents that may be of interest. It is also open to all the institutions that make up the Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia that wish to use it on a cooperative basis.

Database of interaction of small molecules with membranes

Database of chemical experimental demonstrations with a focus on elementary schools and high schools

CLARIN-IS is part of CLARIN ERIC. The main goal of CLARIN ERIC is that all digital language resources and tools from all over Europe and beyond are accessible through a single sign-on online environment to support researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and for use within language technology. The repository of CLARIN-IS (repository.clarin.is) contains a lot of resources – tools for language processing, corpora, lexica and language descriptions of various kinds. All the products of the Language Technology Programme for Icelandic (2019–2023) were uploaded to the repository as well as the resources that used to be on www.malfong.is. The repository has a powerful search engine but in order to provide a simple overview, most of the data are shown here.

“DATICE is a data service and archive for Icelandic social science research data. Our goal is to ensure open and free access to high quality data for the research community as well as the general public. The service is located within the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) at the University of Iceland.DATICE‘s main goals are: to make Icelandic social science research data findable, accessible and reusable, whether for research, teaching or public policy making to ensure availability of high-quality research data for the research community and the general public to provide safe and accessible solutions for long term data storage DATICE‘s main services are:
-to solicitate, acquire and disseminate research data that can be used in secondary analysis
-to provide consultation to data depositors on how to prepare research data for open access
-to offer advice to data users on how the data in the DATICE repository can be used”

The Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts (CDHA) is a platform for construction, hosting, consultation about development and access to digital databanks in the humanities and arts, and for research based on digital databanks. The databanks cover both language resources, i.e. texts and languages, and resources in other formats, such as images, videos, 3D models, sounds and visual arts in digital formats. CDHA will coordinate international collaboration in digital research infrastructure in humanities and arts, and work in the spirit of providing open access to research data.

Since its existence, the Brenner Archive Research Institute has endeavored to expand its collections in order to create or expand the basis for research projects. Normally, this is done through donations, but if it is not possible otherwise, also through purchases.

The University Bibliography is the central publication directory of Duisburg-Essen University – here the publication activities of all university members are recorded online. The University Bibliography is run by the university library and based on the Open-Source-Framework MyCoRe.

DuEPublico is the institutional repository of the University of Duisburg-Essen for depositing and distributing electronic publications, dissertations and theses with Open Access to full text. Also, e-learning material intended for re-use (Open Educational Resources, OER) can be made available under a free license. DuEPublico is driven by the university library and based on the repository framework MyCoRe and additional Open Source components.

Share Journals is the platform for the management and publication of open access scientific journals on behalf of the SHARE Interuniversity Consortium. Share Journals has been created by the University of Naples “Federico II “- Centre for Libraries. Since 2015 hosts the research publications of the Universities participating in the SHARE alliance, which involves the collaboration of 11 Universities of Southern Italy. Research publications are submitted to a double – blind peer – review process and are published in Italian and in English.