UK Data Archive

Initially posted on Monday, 11 August 2008

The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is an internationally-renowned centre of expertise in data acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion; and is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK.

The UKDA provides resource discovery and support for secondary use of quantitative and qualitative data in research, teaching and learning as a lead partner of the Economic and Social Data Service. The UKDA houses the History Data Service and Census.ac.uk and supports the National Centre for e-Social Science. The UKDA promotes access to research data at an international level via membership of Council of European Social Science Data Archives and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, provides preservation services for other data organisations, and is a designated place of deposit for The National Archives.

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Identity providers are required to assert User Accountability and individual users must register online for access.

This service is available for subscription to UK HE, FE & research councils through JISC Collections.