 Students registered with the UK Data Service can access datasets from the UK's largest collection of social and economic data. Data collections are free for students to use throughout their studies, subject to certain access conditions. This video gives a quick guide to these access conditions and how they apply to students. The video is aimed at undergraduate and master's level students. The data we hold at the UK Data Service comes from a wide variety of sources and we disseminate data under licence from the original creator. These licences allow us to provide access to the data to users who meet the requirements and agree to a set of access conditions. There are different types of licence with different access conditions. First we have a small number of open datasets that are available without needing to register. But most of our data is classed as safeguarded and available with the end user licence or EUL for short. You sign the end user licence when you register with the UK Data Service. Once you've signed it, you're able to download and access datasets in the catalogue. However you'll need to follow the access conditions that you've agreed to, which include not sharing the data with others. Special licence datasets are safeguarded datasets with additional conditions that need to be fulfilled before you can access the data. The additional conditions vary and may or may not prevent student access. You'll need to find out by reading the details. It's also important to know that in some cases fulfilling the conditions can take time, which could be a problem when working to a deadline. For example, a common condition is that permission from the data owner is needed before you can access the data. Finally, controlled data are more disclosed than other types of data and can only be accessed within a secure environment by researchers who've completed training and applied to use the data. Controlled data are therefore unsuitable for student research projects. How can you tell the access level? One of the first things to do is look at the title. As often if a dataset is special licence or secure, these terms will be included in the study name. Otherwise, you can find information about a dataset licence and access conditions on the catalogue page. In the Details tab at the top, look where it says Access. Under Access, if it says these data are safeguarded, this is EUR data and you should be able to download it. If it is secure data, this section will say these data are controlled. For details about special licence data, go to the Access Data tab for the detailed information about the conditions. If anything remains unclear, you can always request further information from our help desk.