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During Love Data Week, we celebrate the data that makes our research possible.
Every February, universities, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and other institutions hold interesting events and activities to draw public attention to the topics of "research data" and "research data management."

And as every year, GESIS will also be participating in Love Data Week in 2026!

Further information on Love Data Week

Our events during Love Data Week 26

Where is the data? The international Love Data Week 2026

The theme of this year's Love Data Week is "Where is the data?" – an opportunity to encourage people to think about the path data takes from collection to storage.

The subject opens up exciting opportunities for interactive programs, whether it's organizing games on the topic of data, building data literacy, or exploring the ethics of responsible data use. The goal of this year's Love Data Week is to provide everyone—from data novices to data professionals—with the information and resources they need to make progress in the areas that matter to them. Discover the exciting world of data!

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Research data management: The basis for finding research data!

What makes data findable in search engines and repositories?

The answer is: good research data management, well-documented data, and the use of metadata.

If you want to know more, we recommend the presentation "Care to Share? Data Sharing at GESIS" by Dr. Anja Perry.

To "Care to share"

For further information on research data management, we also recommend:

What is RDM?

Research data management (RDM) at the GESIS Data Services

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Data citations

What is a DOI, and how does it make my data citable?

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Meet the Experts

Unsere Meet the Experts-Staffel zu "Data Services, Data Archiving, and Research Data Management"

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Where is the data?

We have a few tips to help you find your way around the world of diverse data repositories. 

Here are our top 5:

  • GESIS Search: We have more than 7,500 data sets available for you. These include the long-term study programs ALLBUS (General Population Survey), ISSP (International Social Survey Program), Eurobarometer studies, and GLES (German Longitudinal Election Study).
  • CESSDA Data Catalogue: The catalog contains metadata and links to over 40,000 data collections from CESSDA service providers in over 20 European countries.
  • B2Find: Metadata catalog of the EUDAT Collaborative Data Infrastructure from over 20 research organizations, data and analysis centers.
  • Find Data at ICPSR: The international consortium of over 800 research institutions, the largest data archive in the US.
  • Google Dataset Search: No further explanation is necessary.

Data is our passion

That is why we would like to highlight them in particular.

An overview of very special data with long time series and across national borders can be found here:

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Special data sets from the community for the community:

Our thematic collections

You can find data collections curated by topic here:

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Overviews and data portals

Our data collections on current social issues:

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Data Spotlights

Eine besondere Reihe im GESIS-Blog

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