1. ESDS website: www.esds.ac.uk www.esds.ac.uk ESDS Access and Preservation

2. ESDS has over 28,000 registered users

3. ESDS has experienced 99.5% of service availability

4. 2003 – present: 760 new datasets, updates and editions

5. ESDS has fielded over 5,500 queries

6. Almost 2.5m web pages have been accessed during ESDSs life

7. ESDS and the CRS are part of the one-stop registration service

8. one-stop registration for UK census data, launched August 2002 extended to ESDS International, June 2003 one-stop registration for full ESDS services, June 2004 Census Registration Service (CRS)

9. ESDS preserves over 5,000 datasets

10. ESDS has 9,000 active users

11. ESDS has delivered 38,000 datasets to users

12. ESDS provides datasets via: Web download FTP Portable media Online browsing systems

13. ESDS provides best practice in creating data via: advisory service for ESRC grant applicants guidance and updated web information on data management and legal and ethical issues programme of outreach events for data creators and depositors collaboration with ESRC to implement a workable Datasets Policy

14. ESDS provides expertise in: validating consistency and cross-comparison checking for a wide variety of data licensing arrangements, copyright and access conditions conversion to formats appropriate for preservation and dissemination describing data using international metadata standards (DDI) data and documentation conversion to software and hardware independent formats