[ICPSR] Summer 2010 DataBytes

[Matthew Richardson]

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In This Issue

ICPSR's Summer Byte - The Heat is On!
Summer Planning for a Fall Fair
Enjoy Summer - Plan for Fall Orientation
Survey Says . . .
Hoarding Data? We Can Help.
A Fresh Face for Demographers
Council News - 2013 Fees Announced
SAMHDA Continues On
NAHDAP Seeking Partnerships
The 3.4 on SDA
ICPSR Events
Upcoming conferences &
Council meetings

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ICPSR's Summer Byte - The Heat is On!

With all the developments at ICPSR, it was a hot spring and now an  
even hotter summer both inside and outside the halls of the Perry  
Building. Time to grab a fan and lemonade, and sit back and enjoy  
ICPSR's summer edition of DataBytes.



Summer Planning for a Fall Fair

Mark your calendars! ICPSR will present a Virtual Social Sciences Data  
Fair November 9 - 11, 2010. The fair will consist of three to four  
webcasts per day and will feature North American and international  
social sciences datasets and teaching resources. Sign up for our email  
list to receive the latest developments on the Data Fair.

Enjoy Summer - Plan for Fall Orientation

Speaking of fall, would you like ICPSR to assist in your orientation  
efforts? Staff would be delighted to conduct live webcasts on ICPSR  
and its collections for new students and faculty.  Schedule now to  
avoid the rush!

Survey Says . . .

Over 150 Official and Designated Representatives provided feedback and  
guidance to help shape the future of the consortium. What did they  
say? See the full results of the ICPSR 2010 Membership Survey (pptx).

Hoarding Data? We Can Help.

Are you holding data or do you know about a data collection that ICPSR  
should archive? Let us know! Send us an email or use our online  
Suggest Data to Archive form.

A Fresh Face for Demographers

With an eye towards easier navigation, Data Sharing for Demographic  
Research has refreshed its Web site! DSDR provides resources to  
demographic data producers and users, including confidentiality and  
disclosure review, restricted data contract development, and data  
dissemination.



Council News - 2013 Fees Announced

To assist members in planning ahead for budgets, after six years of  
frozen membership rates, Council approved a 5 percent increase in  
membership fees across all categories for FY2013 (beginning July 1,  
2012). Developing country rates will remain unchanged.

SAMHDA Continues On

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) contract  
was renewed through May 2015. The project will continue to archive,  
disseminate, and preserve research data on substance abuse and mental  
health, as well as create public-use data by conducting disclosure  
risk analysis. New work to be conducted under this award includes  
developing mechanisms for distributing restricted-use files such as  
through a virtual data enclave and online analysis with programmed  
disclosure protections.

NAHDAP Seeking Partnerships

ICPSR's newest archive, the National Addiction & HIV Archive Program  
(NAHDAP), is seeking requests for proposals for subcontracts focused  
on acquiring datasets on HIV/AIDS and drug abuse. Subcontractors must  
be able and willing to deposit datasets on HIV/AIDS or drug addiction  
resulting from research funded by the National Institute on Drug  
Abuse. Details are available in the subcontract competition document  
(pdf). Applications are due by November 1, 2010.

The 3.4 on SDA

ICPSR is pleased to announce that version 3.4 of Survey Documentation  
and Analysis (SDA), developed and maintained at the University of  
California - Berkeley, is now available. Visit SDA Updates, or better  
yet, experiment with the over 600 studies now available for analysis  
online!


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