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<p style="padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;"> <br /><strong>In This Issue</strong></p>
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<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a01">ICPSR's Winter Byte</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a02">Temperature Rising for the 2014 Summer Program!</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a03">A Look Back at a Year of Innovation</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a04">Looking Ahead, Strategically</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a05">New ICPSR Council Members to be Seated in March</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a06">Insights on Research, Direct from the Researcher</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a07">Using ICPSR Data to Teach about Love and Attraction</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a08">openICPSR--a Soft Launch for the Membership! </a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a09">A Search for Sustainability--Domain Repositories</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a10">Call for Student Research Papers on Data Curation</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a12">A Free Workshop for Consumer Expenditure Survey Users</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a11">Get Connected in Time for Spring!</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>What a winter it has been! With record-breaking low temperatures, endless snowfall, and lots of progress to share, it's time for our winter edition of <cite>DataBytes</cite>!</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>Temperature Rising for 2014 Summer Program!</h2>
<p>Registration is open for the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/sumprog/2014/schedule.html">2014 Summer Program</a>! The four-week courses run June 23-July 18 and July 21-August 15. Several three- to five-day workshops beginning in May also are in development. Sign up to receive <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/lists/icpsr-announce.html">email notifications</a> regarding workshop additions and/or watch for announcements on our <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/about.html">social media pages</a>!</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a03" name="a03"></a>A Look Back at a Year of Innovation</h2>
<p>ICPSR's 2012-2013 <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/membership/or/annualreport/AR2012-2013.pdf">annual report</a> (PDF) is now available. The report documents an inventive and productive year in which membership grew to 724, an increase of 19 percent over the prior year, and the ICPSR Summer Program achieved record enrollment. </p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a04" name="a04"></a>Looking Ahead, Strategically</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/strategic/index.html">ICPSR's new Strategic Plan</a> is now available online. This Plan is the result of approximately a year of effort to develop a multiyear vision. It sets priorities for the organization to maintain our leadership position in data curation and stewardship and to promote social and behavioral research. </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>New ICPSR Council Members to be Seated in March</h2>
<p>ICPSR is pleased to welcome six new members to its Governing <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/governance/council.html">Council</a> and to announce the appointment of Council member Christopher Achen to a two-year term as Council Chair. The new members are Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University; Robert Chen, Center for International Earth Science Information Network; Philip Jefferson, Swarthmore College; Chandra Muller, University of Texas at Austin; Ronald Nakao, Stanford University; and William Vega, University of Southern California.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a06" name="a06"></a>Insights on Research, Direct from the Researcher</h2>
<p>The <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD/">Resource Center for Minority Data</a> (RCMD) at ICPSR is pleased to make available a new article based on an <a href="http://icpsr.blogspot.com/2014/02/new-rcmd-article-provides-insights-from.html">in-depth interview with Ruben G. Rumbaut</a>, professor of sociology at University of California, Irvine, and a Principal Investigator of the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/20520">Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study</a> (CILS). Rumbaut explains how the CILS began and comments on its objectives and major findings--providing useful advice for other researchers who are attempting to analyze the data.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a07" name="a07"></a>Using ICPSR Data to Teach about Love and Attraction</h2>
<p>Just in time for Valentine's Day, ICPSR's <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/instructors/">Resources for Instructors</a> announced the release of a new Data-Driven Learning Guide, "<a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/instructors/biblio/resources/114274">Is Love Really Blind?</a>" DDLGs are designed by teaching faculty to help build data literacy in undergraduate classrooms. </p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a08" name="a08"></a>openICPSR--a Soft Launch for the Membership! </h2>
<p>openICPSR launched in beta form for use by the membership on February 24, 2014. Individuals from member institutions may use the self-deposit option for free during the beta period that runs through June 30, 2014. <a href="http://www.openicpsr.org/">openICPSR</a> is a research data-sharing service for the social and behavioral sciences. It allows the public to access research data at no charge (or in the case of restricted-use data, at nominal charge). <em>Individuals at member institutions should contact their <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/membership/administration/institutions">Official Representative</a> to obtain the promotion code for free self-deposit.</em></p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a09" name="a09"></a>A Search for Sustainability--Domain Repositories</h2>
<p>More than two dozen data repositories serving the social, natural, and physical sciences have released a white paper recommending new approaches to fund the sharing and preserving of scientific data. "<a href="http://datacommunity.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/default/files/WhitePaper_ICPSR_SDRDD_121113.pdf">Sustaining Domain Repositories for Digital Data: A White Paper</a>" (PDF), emphasizes the need for sustainable funding of domain repositories--data archives with ties to specific scientific communities.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a10" name="a10"></a>Call for Student Research Papers on Data Curation</h2>
<p>ICPSR invites original student submissions for a <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/prize/curationcontest.html">research paper competition</a> on the topic of data curation. This competition, awarding $1,000 to the first-place paper, has the purpose of encouraging and highlighting exemplary student research on data curation, including, but not limited to, such topics as data management planning, supporting the data curation lifecycle, metadata, data confidentiality, preservation, and cost modeling. Deadline for submission is May 30, 2014.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a12" name="a12"></a>A Free Workshop for Consumer Expenditure Survey Users</h2>
<p>The <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/series/20">Consumer Expenditure Survey</a>(CE) is
excited to announce that registration for the ninth annual <em><a href="http://www.bls.gov/cex/csxannualworkshop.htm">Microdata Users' Workshop</a></em> July 16-18, 2014 in Washington DC is now open! The free workshop provides a unique opportunity for CE data users to receive hands-on training and access to CE microdata experts.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a11" name="a11"></a>Get Connected in Time for Spring!</h2>
<p>Spring is almost here (really!), and it's going to be an exciting time for ICPSR and the data community. Be sure to get the latest updates via ICPSR's announcements on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheICPSR">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/icpsr">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4__DY4PxAg4Fjspbubd-Pw">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/115324017682479852435/posts">Google+</a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=7461279&trk=groups_guest_about-h-logo">LinkedIn</a>, and via our opt-in email list: <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/lists/icpsr-announce.html">icpsr-announce</a>. Think spring!</p>
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