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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 Meeting -- Have you registered?</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a03">A Bounty of Fall Workshops Offered</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a04">ORs Taking an Active Role in ICPSR Meeting</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a05">Data Management & Curation Site Refreshed for Summer!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a06">Council News: 2015/2016 Membership Fees Set</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a07">FY2014 Invoices Due Soon</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a08">OR Tools: Linking to ICPSR Encouraged! </a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a09">OR and DR Contact Updates -- Please Review!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a10">OSTP Guidelines Posted for Summer Deadline</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a11">2013 Warren E. Miller Award and William H. Flanigan Award Winners Announced!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a12">A Farewell to Summer -- Interns!</a></li>
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<p style="padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px">Current membership count: 735</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a01">ICPSR's Summer Byte</a></h2>
<p align="center"><img src="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/ICPSR/enewsletters/2013-08-perry.png" alt="Photo of Perry Building in summer"></p>
<p>The halls of ICPSR are sizzling with activity as staff teach for the Summer Program, advise student interns, and plan for the upcoming ICPSR Meeting! It's time to take a moment to share archive updates in the summer edition of <cite>DataBytes</cite>. </p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a02">ICPSR Meeting -- Have you registered?</a></h2>
<p>The <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/or/ormeet/">2013 ICPSR Meeting</a> starts in just two short months! With over 15 workshops and sessions, this biennial meeting will highlight ICPSR's recent developments in the areas of open access, restricted data management, training and education, digital curation, and importantly, new data tools. In addition, this meeting serves as an opportunity for researchers, teaching faculty, librarians, policymakers, and data professionals to gather and share ideas that will aid us as a data community to facilitate research and make impact.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a03">A Bounty of Fall Workshops Offered</a></h2>
<p>The ICPSR Meeting features a full day of workshops on Wednesday, October 9, 2013. Take an introductory tour through various statistical software used in data analysis, explore data within the China Data Center, learn about best practices for curating and managing research data, delve into resources to incorporate real data into the curriculum, and explore the delivery of ICPSR data and related resources in-depth -- all in one day! See <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/or/ormeet/workshops.html">workshop descriptions</a> for detailed outlines of these sessions.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a04">ORs Taking an Active Role in ICPSR Meeting</a></h2>
<p>The ICPSR Meeting will feature numerous Official and Designated Representatives who are passionate about delivering data services, exploring data for research, and teaching using data. Wonder who is participating? See the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/or/ormeet/workshops.html">workshops & sessions page</a> (updating frequently!). Interested in participating? We need your expertise -- please <a href="mailto:lindamd@umich.edu">contact us</a>! </p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a05">Data Management & Curation Site Refreshed for Summer!</a></h2>
<p>ICPSR has updated the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/datamanagement/">Data Management</a> section of its web site to better highlight the curation process ICPSR uses to add value to data, maximize access, and ensure long-term preservation.</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a06">Council News: 2015/2016 Membership Fees Set</a></h2>
<p>At its June meeting, Council set <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/join.html">membership fees</a> one year in advance as required by the <a href="https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/governance/constitution.html">ICPSR Constitution</a>. To enable member institutions to plan and budget for a longer term, Council set fees for a period of two years.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a07">FY2014 Invoices Due Soon</a></h2>
<p>Invoices for the membership period beginning July 1, 2013 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 <a href="mailto:arun@umich.edu">contact us</a>!</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a08">OR Tools: Linking to ICPSR Encouraged! </a></h2>
<p>We are often asked if it is okay to link to ICPSR directly from websites. Our response is an enthusiastic, "Yes!" We encourage it. We suggest that when using in-text linking, that you use <a href="https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/landing.jsp">ICPSR</a> in the text (as shown) and/or feel free to use our logo provided here!</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a09">OR and DR Contact Updates -- Please Review!</a></h2>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/membership/administration/institutions">member list</a> page, finding your institution, and reviewing your OR and DR contact information. Need to make a change? Please <a href="mailto:arun@umich.edu">email us</a>!</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a10">OSTP Guidelines Posted for Summer Deadline</a></h2>
<p>ICPSR has posted a new "<a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/datamanagement/ostp.html">Guidelines for OSTP Data Access Plan</a>" page to support federal funding agencies affected by the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf">February 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo</a>. The page provides an overview of each requirement laid out in the memo, and discusses why each matters and the key issues to consider when formulating plans.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a11">2013 Warren E. Miller Award and William H. Flanigan Award Winners Announced!</a></h2>
<p>ICPSR is proud to announce that Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier and Kathleen Mullan Harris have been named the 2013 Miller Award winners, and Daniel C. Tsang and Wendy Watkins have been named the 2013 Flanigan Award Winners. Awards will be presented to each of the honorees at the 2013 ICPSR Meeting on Thursday, October 10. Read more about the awards and <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/awards/">former award winners</a>.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a12">A Farewell to Summer -- Interns!</a></h2>
<p>After 10 weeks at ICPSR, interns are quickly putting the final touches on their research projects and will head back to their home institutions. ICPSR wishes them the best of luck! <a href="http://icpsr.blogspot.com/2013/05/icpsr-summer-internship-class-of-2013.html">ICPSR interns</a> this year included: Elise Giammanco, Beloit College; Lorraine Blatt, Grinnell College; Denzel Caldwell, Morehouse College; John Leverso, University of Illinois at Chicago; Sruthi Naraharisetti, Michigan State University; Ryan Thompson, The University of Akron; and Melinda Ashe, Case Western Reserve University.</p>
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