We ensure that data about people and society can be collected, stored and shared, both safely and legally, today and in the future.
Learn about data protection
Find out if your research project will process personal data and fill out NSDs notification form.
Archiving data
NSD receives and archives data about people and society to make them available for sharing and reuse in research.
Book a course
We hold courses for researchers, administrative staff and management on data protection, data management and data archiving.
Plan your data management
Good planning gives good data. Fill out a data management plan with NSD's DMP.
CLARIN K-Centre
NSD is a CLARIN Knowledge Centre, and provides expertise in data management and legal and ethical issues for scholars wishing to deposit and manage language data.
NSD is reorganising to become Sikt
NSD has merged with Uninett AS and The Direcorate for ICT and joint services in higher education and research from 1 January 2022, to form the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (Sikt). The new organisation will be established from 1 January 2022.
Read more about the reorganisation
NSD – 50 years of delivering data to research
2021 marked 50 years since NSD was established. Read about NSD's history and the ideas from the founding father, Stein Rokkan, that reseach data is a collective good, that should be shared.
Read about the origins and history of NSD