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Excerpt from catalogue page for National Survey brazil rcs data for Wales, showing citation tool.
Example of the UK Data Service data citation tool
In March 2020, the UK Data Archive became one of the very first facilities to become an accredited processor under the Digital Economy Act (DEA) 2017 Part 5, Chapter 5 (Research). By association, UKDS SecureLab thus became one of the first DEA-accredited TREs, meaning that the UKSA Research Accreditation Panel acknowledge that the very highest standards have been met.
An agile response to Covid-19
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world in early 2020, UKDS SecureLab was the first secure facility in the UK to develop and test an online version of the Safe Researcher Training (SRT) course, delivering the first session on 2 April 2020, with others following our lead in subsequent weeks.
Within two weeks of the first lockdown we had gained early agreement from data owners for staff to process data at home, building on the already stringent measures we operate under our ISO 27001 Information Security certification. We ensured researchers could continue to make their way through the Approved Researcher accreditation process remotely, in readiness to access the controlled data they need for their projects.