Social Science Data Archives in Eastern Europe. Results, Potentials and Prospects of the Archival Development. Brigitte Hausstein and Paul de Guchteneire (Eds.) Ferger Verlag. Berlin, Cologne, Paris 2002. 
236 pages, ISBN 3-931219-17-8, EUR 25,00

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This book is the outcome of the workshop on social science data archives in Eastern Europe that took place in Berlin from 22-24th February 2002. The workshop was funded by the UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST) and the German Social Science Infrastructure Services (GESIS) / Central Archive Cologne. 

Despite the large-scale development of electronic communications in all scientific fields, experience shows that face-to-face communication remains essential, particularly in developing co-operation and networks. Therefore the GESIS Branch Office Berlin organized a workshop as a forum both to exchange experiences of how to establish a data archive and to evaluate the potential for the establishment of data archives in Eastern European countries without a developed data infrastructure.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the development of data archiving in Eastern Europe since 1990. The first part of the volume includes the country reports from Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Yugoslavia describing the development of empirical social science research after 1990 and assessing the potential for establishing a national social science data archive in the respective country. The data archive progress reports from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, Romania, Slovenia and Hungary are presented in the second part of the book.