Sensitive Data (SD) services for research: user guide
Welcome to the user guide for CSC's Sensitive Data (SD) services.
To access CSC's SD Services, it is important to first identify the type of sensitive data your research involves, whether it is:
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research data (e.g. consented data collected for scientific studies)
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or secondary use of health and social data (e.g. register data provided by the Finnish Social and Health Data Permit Authority Findata or a public register).
This determines the appropriate CSC project type used for access (Academic or Findata) and the data import and export workflows. How the CSC project type is used also determines whether project members can download files or only access them in read-only mode.
Each guide provides step-by-step instructions and video tutorials. Use the left menu (if menu is not visible, try zooming out in your browser), search bar or table of contents to find topics quickly.
Quick links to user guides
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Research data: store and analyse
Start here: crete an account and a CSC project academic type
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Research data: publish and reuse
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Secondary use of health and social data
Start here with Findata permit
Start here with Public Register permit
Additional Resources
Quick access webpage to SD Services
For convenient access of SD services, visit and bookmark the Quick access webpage. This external page provides a centralized list, making it easy to access the services you need.
Service breaks
- SD services undergo regular maintenance on the first Wednesday of every month, for full details please visit Service Breaks page in research.csc.fi website
Support
Do you have any questions? Would you like to discuss how SD services can support your research project?
- Contact us, subject: Sensitive Data services
- Join the CSC Research User Support Coffee - Every Wednesday at 14:00.
- We offer on demand training and online meetings to guide you step by step when setting up a project or accessing the service for the first time.
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