The UK Data Service is part of the International Data Access Network (IDAN) project, founded in 2018. The project is a collaboration between six Research Data Centres (RDCs) from France, Germany, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom to facilitate research use of controlled access data between these RDCs/countries. In its first phase IDAN aims to enable researchers to work remotely on controlled access data provided by partner countries from within each Research Data Centre with all access points in the same physical place (RDC/Safe Room). For more information on the project’s progress and availability of access points and data, please see the project website. If you would like to be kept up to date, please email Anna Lepouze of CASD.
We’d like to draw your attention to the newest development regarding IDAN: In cooperation with the French Secure Access Data Centre (CASD – Centre d’Accès Sécurisé aux Données), the UK Data Service has now set up a secure data access point within the UK Data Service Safe Room at the University of Essex to facilitate on-site direct remote access to the CASD data from the UK. To get an overview of all available CASD data, please see: https://www.casd.eu/en/available-data-on-casd/. To apply for data access, please contact: service@casd.eu. We are very happy to say that this is our second access point to international controlled data, with the German Institute for Employment Research (IAB) access point successfully in place and welcomed by our community of researchers. For information regarding all available IAB data, please see IAB Overview of data. Data access information can be found at their data access pages.