The purpose of this study was to explore to what degree data repositories employ access controls or use controls to regulate who accesses data in the repository and what uses are made of repository data. This paper represents ...

We map out a new arena of analysis for knowledge and cyberinfrastructure scholars: Social Science Data Archives (SSDA). SSDA have influenced the international development of the social sciences, research methods, and ...

This paper describes the range and variation in access and use control policies and tools used by 24 web-based data repositories across a variety of fields. It also describes rationale provided by repositories for their ...