[ICPSR] ICPSR’s Public-Access Data Collection Webinar Series

[Linda Detterman]

ICPSR hosts over 20 data collections funded by government agencies and
various foundations. Using these funds, the carefully curated data are free
to the public. Please join ICPSR as it highlights a number of these
collections as part of its 2014 Data Fair. Webinars in this series (with
registration links) include the following:



*An Introduction to NADAC - ICPSR's National Archive of Data on Arts and
Culture*

*Broadcast time (EDT): Monday, October 6, 1:00pm*

*Registration link:*
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2151323503634547970

NADAC's mission is to share research data on arts and culture with
researchers, policymakers, people working for arts and culture
organizations, and the general public. This session, led by staff managing
NADAC, will help attendees to learn about data available from NADAC at the
national, state, and local levels. The session will also highlight
user-friendly tools for analyzing the data (including for those not
experienced with statistical packages), for visualizing the data, and for
other ways of using research data to support the arts and culture community.



*NAHDAP Orientation - ICPSR's National Addiction and HIV Data Archive
Program*

*Broadcast time (EDT): Tuesday, October 7, 2:00pm*

*Registration link:*
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8538322777711643650

NAHDAP facilitates research on drug addiction and HIV infection by
acquiring and sharing data, particularly those funded by its sponsor, the
National Institute on Drug Abuse. This session, led by members of ICPSR's
National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program team, will help attendees
learn about NAHDAP's services and resources for data depositors and data
users. Further, they will orient you and help you locate this information
on the NAHDAP website, highlighting selected datasets and data series.



*Q&A with MET Staff*

*Broadcast time (EDT):* *Wednesday, October 8, 2:00pm*

*Registration link:*
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4879725324077805570

The Measures of Effective Teaching Longitudinal Database (MET LDB) has been
available to the research community for almost a year now, and we invite
current and potential users to log in for a review of the project and
available data, and then stick around for Q&A with the ICPSR staff who
manage data file processing and access for secondary analysis. This is a
great opportunity to get your questions answered about this complex
dataset, specifically questions on file organization and structure, as well
as data access policies and procedures.



*Out of the Gate(S): Post-Secondary Trajectories and Outcomes of Millennium
and Washington Achiever Scholars*

*Broadcast time (EDT):* *Thursday, October 9,  3:00pm*

*Registration link:* https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/674413562

The Washington State Achievers Scholarship program (WSA) started as part of
an initiative by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fund and support
16 high schools in Washington State as they redesigned their schools in
order to increase academic achievement for all of their students. In 1999,
the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation started the Gates Millennium Scholars
Program (GMS), a 20-year initiative which intends to expand access to
higher education for high achieving, low-income minority students.

In 2012, ICPSR’s Resource Center for Minority Data ( RCMD) and the Gates
Foundation entered into an agreement to make data collected through the two
scholarships freely available to the public through ICPSR. This session
will provide some methodological and content background on these data and
ways to access and analyze these data.



*Broadening Access to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data with the
Restricted-Use Data Analysis System (R-DAS)*

*Broadcast time (EDT): Tuesday, October 7, Noon (12:00pm)*

*Registration link:*
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4996157008389271554

Learning objectives

1.       Obtain a general understanding of the data and resources available
through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA)

2.       Understand the differences between the public-use and
restricted-use National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data files

3.       Locate and access restricted-use NSDUH data in the R-DAS

4.       Successfully complete a cross-tabulation in the R-DAS



*About The ICPSR Data Fair *

ICPSR is pleased to present its program for the 2014 ICPSR Data Fair, which
will take place Monday through Thursday, October 6-9, 2014.

·         The full program is found here:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/datafair/index.html

·         *Webinar broadcast times are listed in Eastern Daylight Time
(EDT)*.

·         Webinars are free and open to the public, and it is permissible
(even encouraged!) for organizations to broadcast these webcasts to groups
of attendees.

·         Attendees must register for each webinar they want to attend.

·         Recordings and slide decks (when available) will be placed on ICPSR’s
YouTube Channel <https://www.youtube.com/user/ICPSRWeb>. Look for the
playlist titled, “2014 Data Fair.”

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Linda Detterman

Assistant Director, Collection Delivery

Marketing & Membership Director

ICPSR – University of Michigan

lindamd at umich.edu

734.615.5494
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