The EDSC provides access to financial and social science databases and gives individual support and workshops for students and staff of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. For this work the EDSC has a team of 5 specialists - the Datateam. The Datateam itself is supported by an advisory board made up of representatives from the faculties concerned and the University Library.
Due to the increasing importance of quantitative research the University Library in collaboration with the Schools of Management (RSM) and Economics (ESE) started up the Erasmus Data Service Centre (EDSC) in 2006. At first the emphasis was on financial data but since the summer of 2007, the work terrain of the EDSC has been expanded to cover social sciences data. This has been achieved in collaboration with Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB).
The EDSC mission is to provide excellent research data support for researchers, teachers and students. This is done in cooperation with: Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, RSM, Tinbergen Institute and University Library.
Future plan
This document describes how we approach new developments and provides an overview of relating (new) services. Have a look at the EDSC Future Plan 2022-2023 The appendices to this plan can be found in this zip file
Network (partners)
Apart from the above mentioned departments the EDSC participates in the following networks as partner.
Local - The EDSC together with the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics (ECDA) form the Erasmus Data Collaboratory housed on the first floor of the Polak building.
Regional - EDSC has good contact with colleagues of the Leiden, Delft and Erasmus (LDE).
National - EDSC members are part of the DebWEB group of Dutch Economics and Business Librarians. We are the ambassadors of the EUR for SURF.
International - In 2019 EDSC joined the ZBW network.