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<p style="padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;"> <br><strong>In This Issue</strong></p>
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<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a01">ICPSR's Winter Byte</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a02">The Heat is On - Summer Program Registration is Open!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a03">Summer Courses on Data Management and Services in Bloom</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a04">Guiding Data Sharing - a 5th Edition </a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a05">Council News - Welcome to New Members!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a06">More Council News - 2013 Fees</a></li> Reminder
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a07">Fall Reading for This Winter</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a08">Exclusively for ICPSR Members</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a09">Spring Reception in San Francisco - You're Invited!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a10">Celebrating our 50th Year!</a></li>
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<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a01" name="a01"></a>ICPSR's Winter Byte</h2>
<p>Winter 2012 has made a rather tepid appearance in Ann Arbor (so far!). And while winter has largely failed to materialize, our winter edition of <cite>DataBytes</cite> endures!</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a02" name="a02"></a>The Heat is On - Summer Program Registration is Open!</h2>
<p>ICPSR's <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/">2012 Summer Program in Quantitative Methods</a> is open for registration. Register now for another summer of statistics and fun!</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a03" name="a03"></a>Summer Courses on Data Management and Services in Bloom</h2>
<p>ICPSR is offering three courses this summer of interest to individuals managing data and/or providing services related to data. Explore these: <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/courses/0149">Applied Data Science - Managing Research Data for Re-Use</a>; <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/courses/0115">Assessing and Mitigating Disclosure Risk - Essentials for Social Science</a>; <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/courses/0041">Providing Social Science Data Services - Strategies for Design and Operation</a>.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a04" name="a04"></a>Guiding Data Sharing - a 5th Edition </h2>
<p>ICPSR is pleased to announce the release of the fifth edition of the "<a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/access/deposit/guide/">Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving</a>," with new and updated information on data management plans, video files, respondent disclosure protection, and virtual data enclaves. For the first time, we have developed a Web-based version of the Guide, providing a quicker and more efficient way to search and browse the material. A <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/ICPSR/access/dataprep.pdf">PDF version</a> is also available.</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a05" name="a05"></a>Council News - Welcome to New Members!</h2>
<p>ICPSR is pleased to welcome six new Council members, and to announce the appointment of Council member Rogelio Saenz to a two-year term as Council Chair. The next meeting is March 22-23, 2012. See the bios of all members on the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/org/governance/council.jsp">ICPSR Council</a> section of the Web site.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a06" name="a06"></a>More Council News - 2013 Fees</h2> Reminder
<p>To assist members in planning ahead for budgets, after six years of frozen membership rates, we want to remind you that in June 2010, <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/org/governance/council.jsp">Council</a> approved a 5% increase in membership fees across all <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/membership/join.jsp">categories</a> for FY2013 (beginning July 1, 2012). Developing country rates will remain unchanged. (Please note that FY2013 invoices will be mailed in May and are due August 30, 2012.)</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a07" name="a07"></a>Fall Reading for This Winter</h2>
<p>Did you miss the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/ICPSR/org/publications/bulletin/2011-Q3.pdf">Fall 2011 ICPSR Bulletin</a>? This edition is stocked full of great stuff including a Q&A with George Alter, who accepted a 5-year appointment as ICPSR Director this past fall; a description of a new ICPSR partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation involving the archiving of videos; and bios of new directors of three topical archives.</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a08" name="a08"></a>Exclusively for ICPSR Members</h2>
<p>A four-month free trial or 70% off of the annual subscription rate to Sociometrics' Social Science Electronic Data Library (<a href="http://www.socio.com/ssedl.php">SSEDL</a>) is available to ICPSR member institutions. See the ICPSR Web site for <a href="http://icpsr.blogspot.com/2012/02/free-trial-of-social-science-electronic.html">more details</a>! </p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a09" name="a09"></a>Spring Reception in San Francisco - You're Invited!</h2>
<p>In celebration of our 50th year in data management, you are cordially invited to ICPSR's <a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ICPSR50PAA">celebratory reception</a> held during the <a href="http://www.populationassociation.org/sidebar/annual-meeting/">Population Association of America</a> meeting in San Francisco on Thursday, May 3, 2012. ICPSR will also be exhibiting at the <a href="http://www.aera.net/2012AnnualMeeting.htm">American Educational Research Association</a> meeting in Vancouver in April - come visit us at the booth!</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a10" name="a10"></a>Celebrating our 50th Year!</h2>
<p>ICPSR will conclude its celebration of <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/fifty/">50 years in data management</a> with a symposium titled, "Analyzing Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems," featuring Nobel Laureate and former Council member, Dr. Elinor Ostrom. The symposium will take place on June 7, 2012, at 3:00 pm at the Rackham Amphitheatre on the University of Michigan's campus. Livestream instructions will be made available via our Web site and our social media outlets.</p>
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