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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:#305540;" href="#a01">ICPSR's Summer Byte</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540;" href="#a02">ICPSR Looks a Little Different</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540;" href="#a03">Looking for Election Data? How about an Orientation to ICPSR? Check out our 2012 Data Fair!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540;" href="#a04">Webinars are Coming - Get Your Invitations Directly!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540;" href="#a05">Welcome Back Students - It's Time to Start Planning for 2013!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540;" href="#a06">New Data Tool Alert: "Compare Variables" Tool</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540;" href="#a07">ICPSR Member Factoids!</a></li>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a01" name="a01"></a>ICPSR's Summer Byte</h2>
<p>It has been a hot summer in Ann Arbor and in the halls of ICPSR! With over 20 days exceeding 90 degrees and with the energy of launching a refreshed Web site, ICPSR is excited to take a refreshing moment to share archive updates in the summer edition of DataBytes.</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a02" name="a02"></a>ICPSR Looks a Little Different</h2>
<p>ICPSR has returned from summer vacation with a new look. With a better searching apparatus, still more metadata, and a variables comparison tool, the site is reinvigorated and ready to take on the new academic term. Explore the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/support/announcements/2012/09/explore-features-of-icpsrs-redesigned">details of our site redesign</a> or better yet, go out and experience the refreshed <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/">www.icpsr.umich.edu</a> for yourself! </p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a03" name="a03"></a>Looking for Election Data? How about an Orientation to ICPSR? Check out our 2012 Data Fair!</h2>
<p>You're invited to participate in the ICPSR 2012 Data Fair, "Analyzing Election Data with ICPSR"! Scheduled for October 1-3, the series of webcasts will focus on election data held in ICPSR's archives, and how to use them for analysis and teaching. Day one of the data fair will provide an orientation to ICPSR data, data evaluation tools, and teaching resources, while day two and three will focus on all things election. Registration is open and can be found by visiting the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/datafair/schedule.html">ICPSR 2012 Data Fair Web site</a>. </p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a04" name="a04"></a>Webinars are Coming - Get Your Invitations Directly!</h2>
<p>ICPSR has over two dozen webinars in the works for broadcast from September 2012 through May 2013. Content for these broadcasts will cover everything from introductions to ICPSR and its special collections and specific datasets, to bringing data into the classroom, to increasing your effectiveness in finding and evaluation data for use, to issues of data management, data deposit, and disclosure risk. The series launches with a webinar titled: "<a href="https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/701061090">Introduction to The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA)</a>" on September 18, 2012. To receive invitations to future ICPSR webinars directly, join <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/membership/lists/icpsr-announce.jsp">ICPSR's email list</a>.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a05" name="a05"></a>Welcome Back Students - It's Time to Start Planning for 2013!</h2>
<p>ICPSR invites submissions for our <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/prize/index.html">ICPSR 2013 Research Paper Competition</a> from undergraduates and master's students at member institutions. We are holding three competitions - with three first place cash prizes of $1,000 each! And there is more: The <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/internship/">ICPSR summer internship program</a> provides undergraduate students with a unique and expansive research experience that introduces all aspects of social science research via a paid internship on the campus of The University of Michigan. See recent ICPSR interns exhibit their research on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/icpsrweb/">ICPSR's YouTube Channel</a>.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a06" name="a06"></a>New Data Tool Alert: "Compare Variables" Tool</h2>
<p>The Social Science Variables Database (SSVD) enables ICPSR users to examine and compare variables and questions across studies or series. The new "<a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/ssvd/index.jsp">Compare Variables</a>" tool enables analysts to compare response codes, frequencies, and question text (when available). Students can also visualize the evolution of variables, for example, by looking at the differences in response codes of a question on marital status asked in 2008 compared to one asked from 1974-1976.</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a07" name="a07"></a>ICPSR Member Factoids!</h2>
<p>Ever wonder what makes up the consortium? Below are a few factoids on the ICPSR membership and some results from the <a href="http://icpsr.blogspot.com/2012/07/survey-of-icpsr-members-released.html">2012 ICPSR Membership Survey</a>.</p>
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<li>ICPSR currently has 715 members </li>
<li>US academic member institutions are represented in every US state except West Virginia and Hawaii</li>
<li>394 US universities and colleges are members of ICPSR (55% of total members)</li>
<li>Canada maintains 35 universities within the consortium</li>
<li>Non-North American institutions total 260 members</li>
<li>ICPSR manages a total of 46 federations/national memberships
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<li>397 institutions are members through those federations/national memberships</li>
<li>228 of the 260 non-north American institutions are affiliated through a national membership</li>
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<li>The predominant work department of ICPSR Official Representatives (ORs) is the library (46%)</li>
<li>On a 10-point scale (10=completely satisfied), ORs award ICPSR with an 8.4 for overall satisfaction and ICPSR staff responsiveness tops the chart at 8.9!</li>
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