Organisational Member (OA)

About the German Data Forum 

Established in 2004, the German Data Forum (Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten, RatSWD) is an independent council. It advises the German federal government and the federal states (Länder) in matters concerning the research data infrastructure for the empirical social, behavioural, and economic sciences. The German Data Forum (RatSWD) has 16 members. Membership consists of eight elected representatives of the social, behavioural, and economic sciences and eight appointed representatives of Germany’s most important data producers.

About the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services

The European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS) was established in November 2013, in order to provide Members of the European Parliament, and where appropriate, parliamentary committees, with independent, objective and authoritative analysis of, and research on, policy issues relating to the European Union, and so assist them in their parliamentary work.

About ELSEVIER

As both a publisher and a digital solutions provider, Elsevier embeds research data in the workflow and makes it accessible, discoverable and reusable.

Elsevier also applies metrics that enable both researchers and institutions to gauge progress toward compliance and performance goals.

Through our publishing processes, we work with researchers to provide a strong practical example of how data exposure along with published papers can augment the quality, transparency and impact of their research.

About EGI Foundation

The Stichting EGI Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation established under Dutch law to coordinate and manage the EGI Infrastructure federation on behalf of its members: national e-Infrastructures (NGIs) and European Intergovernmental Research Organisations (EIROs).