Introduction (Mario Paolucci and Luciana Taddei) -- Part 1. Open Science and Research infrastructures for Social Sciences -- 1. Open Science and the Role of Social Sciences Research Infrastructures and Data (Francesca di Donato) -- 2. Methodological Framework: Longitudinal and Panel Data in Social Science Research (Ilaria Primerano, Nicolò Marchesini, Francesco Santelli, Luciana Taddei, Loredana Cerbara) -- 3. Open Cloud Platform (Mario Ciampi, Mario Sicuranza, Emanuele Damiano, Pier Giuseppe Meo, Giovanni Massafra) -- 4. Ethical Implications in Building Longitudinal Data Infrastructures (Loredana Cerbara, Dario Germani, Michele Santurro) -- Part 2. European Infrastructures and Surveys -- 5. The Rise of Social Science Infrastructures in Europe and Italy (Luciana Taddei and Mario Paolucci) -- 6. Share-Eric: A European Infrastructure for Research on Ageing and Retirement (Agar Brugiavini, Stefano Castaldo, Guglielmo Weber, Nancy Zambon) -- 7. The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and the Data Archive for Social Sciences in Italy (DASSI) (Filippo Accordino, Fabrizio Pecoraro, Daniela Luzi, Carlo Pisano, Domingo Scisci) -- 8. Retirement, Health, and Digital Gaps: Studying European Ageing with SHARE (Chiara Dal Bianco, Guglielmo Weber, Nancy Zambon) -- 9. Guide: Innovations and Challenges to Survey Child Well-being in Italy (Emilio Maria Colella, Giulio Ecchia, Dario Germani, Ilaria Primerano, Michele Santurro, Francesca Tosi, Massimo Ventrucci and Matthew John Wakefield) -- 10. GGS - Generations and Gender Survey (Letizia Mencarini, Nicol`o Cavalli, Elena Marseglia, Matilde Perotti, Ilaria Primenaro, Michele Santurro, Nicolò Marchesini) -- 11. The Italian way to an Online Probability Panel (Luciana Taddei, Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi, Frank Heins, Nicolò Marchesini, Angela Paparusso, Claudia Pennacchiotti, Francesco Piacentini, Ilaria Primerano, Cristiano Vezzoni, Michele Santurro) -- 12. Synthetic Populations in Research Infrastructures (Rocco Paolillo, Nicholas Roxburgh, Alice Sbrana, Gary Polhill, Evelina Carmen Sabatella, Mario Paolucci) -- Open conclusions (Luciana Taddei and Mario Paolucci).

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This open access book explores panels, infrastructures, open science, and the opportunities they offer. More than that, it shares our experiences in creating them. This is not a technical manual, but an accessible guide about social sciences infrastructures, how they work, and why they are essential for collaboration and the sharing of knowledge. Through stories, examples, and insights, we show that infrastructures are not only technological tools but living ecosystems that nurture ideas, connect people, and add to everyone’s work. The book speaks to students, teachers, researchers, and decision-makers, but also to citizens, communities, and those curious about the future of knowledge in social sciences. Open science here is not just theory, but a hands-on practice that widens horizons and makes discovery a shared adventure. .

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