Remarks
In creating its forms, policies, and agreements, QDR used models drawn from the Archaeology Data Service (ADS), the Data and Research Information Services of the Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences (FORS-DARIS), the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan (ICPSR), the Irish Qualitative Data Archive (IQDA), the Henry A. Murray Research Archive (part of Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, IQSS), the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the UK Data Archive, and the UK Data Service (now including the Economic and Social Data Service [ESDS]).