Managing Data Access in CESSDA II: The Data Access Policy

In 2016, CESSDA published the first edition of its Data Access Policy, which aims to provide a set of principles for CESSDA Service Providers (SPs) covering common standards for the provision of data access, based on the CESSDA Statutes. Since then, new developments have arisen in the social science data community concerning the needs and requirements for data access. These include the FAIR principles and other external initiatives that CESSDA needs to comply with, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU’s Open Science Policy, and CESSDA’s own developments, such as the CESSDA PID Policy. Also, new SPs have joined CESSDA since the last version was published. During 2021/22, the Data Access Policy was revised to take into account all of these developments. This presentation covers the new elements introduced and considers how such a policy can work across a wide range of different national SP organisations.