[ICPSR] 2013 Autumn DataBytes

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ICPSR DataBytes: Autumn 2012



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ICPSR's Autumn Byte
The OR Meeting in Review!
Save the Date -- 2014 Summer Program
Calling All Students!
Calling All ORs and DRs!
A Call to Action: Sustaining Domain Repositories for Digital Data
Guidelines and Resources for OSTP Data Access Plans
A Bounty of New Releases
A Cornucopia of Communication Options
Come Work with Us!

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ICPSR's Autumn Byte

With a crisp chill in the air of Ann Arbor and the brilliant colors of fall  
ablaze, it must be autumn at ICPSR and time for our fall edition of  
DataBytes !
Perry Building
The OR Meeting in Review!

About 155 attendees from 94 institutions joined us for the 2013 ICPSR OR  
Meeting! Did you miss it? Recordings and presentation slides (when  
provided) can all be found on ICPSR's YouTube Channel. Abstracts and  
presentation materials are also provided on the meeting website.

Save the Date -- 2014 Summer Program

The ICPSR Summer Program is excited to announce its four-week session  
dates, with the first session beginning June 23, 2014. More information  
will become available soon -- visit the ICPSR Summer Program website for  
the latest details!
Save the Date!
Calling All Students!

ICPSR invites submissions for our ICPSR 2014 Research Paper Competition  
from undergraduates and master's students at member institutions. We are  
holding four competitions with first-place cash prizes of $1,000 each! And  
there is more: The ICPSR internship program provides undergraduate students  
with a unique and expansive research experience that introduces all aspects  
of social science research via a paid summer internship on the University  
of Michigan campus. See recent ICPSR interns exhibit their research on  
ICPSR's YouTube Channel.

Calling All ORs and DRs!

ICPSR is excited to announce the OR Sabbatical for 2014. It is an  
opportunity for an OR or DR to work in Ann Arbor on a special project  
during the spring/summer term. The 2014 sabbatical is supported by the  
Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD) and the Instructional Resources  
unit. It provides a monetary stipend, and pays for travel and lodging.  
Proposals are currently being accepted (see the website for details).

A Call to Action: Sustaining Domain Repositories for Digital Data

 From ICPSR and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation -- Domain repositories in the  
social and natural sciences each serve a scientific community, whether it  
be a traditional academic discipline, a subdiscipline, or an  
interdisciplinary network of scientists, united by a common focus. Despite  
the growing demand for data sharing and access, domain repositories face an  
uncertain financial future in the United States. Domain repositories must  
be funded as the essential piece of the US research infrastructure that  
they are.

Guidelines and Resources for OSTP Data Access Plans

In February 2013, the Executive Office of the President's Office of Science  
and Technology Policy published a memo titled "Increasing Access to the  
Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research," which directs funding  
agencies with an annual R&D budget over $100 million to develop a  
public-access plan for disseminating the results of their research.  
Planning resources are available on ICPSR's Slideshare account and on its  
Data Management & Curation site.

A Bounty of New Releases

The Voting Behavior: The 2012 Election website is available for use. The  
newest SETUPS (Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science)  
module provides students the ability to analyze an accessible dataset drawn  
from the 2012 American National Election Study (ANES) survey of the  
American electorate. In addition, the Measures of Effective Teaching  
Longitudinal Database (MET LDB), the largest study of classroom teaching  
ever conducted in the United States, is ready for analysis.
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A Cornucopia of Communication Options

We give thanks for a variety of electronic options to keep the data  
community informed of developments at ICPSR! You will find presentations  
for download from the ICPSR Slideshare account and many previous webinars  
and videos on the ICPSR YouTube Channel. Promotional materials are  
available for request on the Promoting ICPSR page. You can "like" us on  
Facebook and "follow us" on Twitter or join our circle on Google+. And  
don't forget that old-fashioned technology -- become an ICPSR email  
subscriber!
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Come Work with Us!

ICPSR is seeking nominations of and applications from highly qualified  
candidates for the position of Director, Summer Program in Quantitative  
Methods of Social Research. See the ICPSR Careers website for more  
information and links to the University of Michigan careers website.


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