Slovak archive of social data SASD - Infrastructural resources for research in social sciences.

The paper deals with the topic of data archiving in the social sciences. It illustrates the positive influence of archiving on the methodological standards and innovation of research, which is based on knowledge gained from previously carried out research. The study proceeds with the history of the world-wide social sciences archive infrastructure and presents the Slovak Archive of Social Data (SASD, http:// sasd.fphil.uniba.sk or http:H sasd.sav.sk). It further analyses the importance of data archiving for the participation in cross-national comparative surveys and points to the possibilities that archiving infrastructure offers when solving methodological issues in cross-country research. The conclusion outlines the further development of the Slovak Archive of Social Data - expansion of the archive and the cataloguing of existing research where it appeals to a culture of data sharing.