[ICPSR] ICPSR DataBytes -- Summer 2014

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ICPSR DataBytes: Summer



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ICPSR's Summer Byte
2014 ICPSR Data Fair: "ICPSR - Powering Sustainable Data Access"
New Summer Program Director Announced
OR Tools: Updated Campus Workshop Presentation!
FY2015 Invoices Due Soon
OR and DR Contact Updates - Please Review!
Cool Data Released this Summer: NAHDAP Releases Data on Drug Use Among  
Young American Indians
Summertime Deposits Heat Up in openICPSR
openICPSR for Institutions and Journals
Bright Researchers Win ICPSR Research Paper Competitions!

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ICPSR's Summer Byte

It's been a cool summer and a busy one in the halls of ICPSR! It's time to  
take a moment to share archive updates in this summer edition of DataBytes .

Photo of Perry Building in summer

2014 ICPSR Data Fair: "ICPSR - Powering Sustainable Data Access"

The 2014 ICPSR Data Fair will feature approximately 14 webinars across four  
days, October 6-9. The fair will feature several of ICPSR's public access  
archives that are sustained by federal and foundation funding, our newest  
public access collection called openICPSR, efforts to share restricted-use  
data with the public, and sustainable training on using data in the  
classroom! The Data Fair is free and open to the public. Registration links  
to the webcasts are expected to be available in mid-September.

New Summer Program Director Announced

ICPSR is pleased to announce that Saundra Schneider will join ICPSR as the  
next Director of the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social  
Research starting in August 2014. Schneider succeeds Interim Director John  
Garcia, who has served in that position since January 2014. Schneider is a  
long-time Summer Program instructor and has been teaching Regression  
Analysis I, one of the mainstay courses in the Program, since 1990. She is  
Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University.

OR Tools: Updated Campus Workshop Presentation!

ICPSR has updated its presentation workshop. It's effectively four  
presentations in one, enabling ORs to cater to audiences who are new to  
ICPSR, desiring to better understand how to find data, looking for training  
or instructional (teaching) resources on data and quantitative methods, or  
needing data management plan assistance (for grant proposals) to share  
research data. Feel free to copy/paste any of the slides into your training  
decks or use the presentation in its entirety! You can download the deck  
from ICPSR's slideshare account or from the member website (see workshop  
materials table). Note that this presentation will be presented as part of  
the 2014 Data Fair in October.

Photo of Perry Building in summer

FY2015 Invoices Due Soon

Invoices for the membership period beginning July 1, 2014 were mailed in  
April and are due on August 30. Thanks to the nearly half of members who  
have already paid! Missing your invoice? Please contact us!

OR and DR Contact Updates - Please Review!

Each year, we receive numerous updates to our OR and DR contacts - thank  
you for keeping us connected! Please take a moment to review your  
institution's contact information by visiting the member list page, finding  
your institution, and reviewing your OR and DR contact information. Need to  
make a change? Please email us!

Cool Data Released this Summer: NAHDAP Releases Data on Drug Use Among  
Young American Indians

NAHDAP announces the release of the data collection, "Drug Use Among Young  
American Indians: Epidemiology and Prediction, 2001-2006 and 2009-2013."  
This study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, is relatively  
unique in that American Indians are its primary respondents. The study's  
purpose was to assess the levels and patterns of substance use among  
American Indian youth who attend school near or on reservations in the  
United States.

Photo of Perry Building in summer

Summertime Deposits Heat Up in openICPSR

Launched just last February, deposits of data into openICPSR (ICPSR's  
public access data collection) have heated up! Within just six months,  
approximately 30 projects have been published with more in progress.  
openICPSR extended its beta period through the end of 2014 and continues to  
accept self-deposits from individuals at member institutions without charge.

openICPSR for Institutions and Journals

ICPSR has spent many of the dog days of summer developing openICPSR for  
Institutions and Journals. This is a research data-sharing service  
developed specifically to meet the needs of universities, journals,  
research centers, and departments that desire a fully-hosted, economical,  
professionally-run, and trusted research data repository without the costs  
of technical staffing or IT hardware. More information will be coming soon  
on this service planned for launch in 2015.

Photo of Perry Building in summer

Bright Researchers Win ICPSR Research Paper Competitions!

ICPSR is pleased to announce the first-place winners of the 2014 ICPSR  
Research Paper Competitions: Lorraine Blatt, Grinnell College,  
Undergraduate Competition; Peter Lista, Indiana University - Bloomington,  
Master's Competition; Jian, Central University of Finance and Economics  
(Beijing, China), Resource Center for Minority Data Paper Competition; and  
Tiffany Chao, University of Illinois, Data Curation Competition. The  
submissions to this year's competitions demonstrated a high degree of  
scholarship and creative ways of analyzing data. It's not too early to  
start researching and writing for the 2015 competitions!


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