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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 2015 Summer Program!</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a03">openICPSR—Out of Beta and Free to Members</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a04">openICPSR for Institutions and Journals—Open for Branding & Sharing!</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a05">What Does an OR (Member Institution) Need to Know about openICPSR?</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a06">The ORs are Coming—September 30-October 2!</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a07">Council News—Calling all Nominations</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a08">Extending ICPSR's Hall of Fame</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a09">A Look Back at a Year of Expanding Access</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a10">ICPSR's Fall Bulletin—A Bounty of Developments</a></li>
<li style="padding-bottom:4px;"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;" href="#a11">See you in Portland for the ACRL Conference!</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>Before we bid farewell to a snow-filled, blustery winter in hopes of spotting the first signs of spring, we invite you to enjoy 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 2015 Summer Program!</h2>
<p>Registration is open for the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/sumprog/2015/schedule.html">2015 Summer Program</a>! The four-week courses run June 22-July 17 and July 20-August 14. And, numerous three- to five-day workshops beginning in May are also heating up!</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a03" name="a03"></a>openICPSR—Out of Beta and Free to Members</h2>
<p>openICPSR launched out of beta in February with improved usability and the announcement that bit-level self-deposits will be a benefit of membership in ICPSR. <a href="https://www.openicpsr.org/">openICPSR</a> is a research data-sharing service for the social and behavioral sciences that allows the public to access data at no charge.</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>openICPSR for Institutions and Journals—Open for Branding & Sharing!</h2>
<p>Now available—a fully hosted, economical, professionally-run research data repository demonstrating your brand and your organization's commitment to public access data and research transparency. <a href="https://www.openicpsr.org/home/repository">openICPSR for Institutions and Journals</a> is a research data-sharing service developed to meet the needs of universities, journals, professional associations, research centers and departments.</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>What Does an OR (Member Institution) Need to Know about openICPSR?</h2>
<p>So many questions (about openICPSR) and now many <a href="http://www.openicpsr.org/home/orfaqs">answers specifically developed to help ORs, DRs, and our member institutions</a>! ICPSR has developed a bevy of answers to frequent questions about openICPSR as it pertains to the membership. In addition, see our recent webinar on YouTube, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqvvXRC1IDE">Introducing the openICPSR Suite</a>" that includes slides and brochures for your download and use.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a06" name="a06"></a>The ORs are Coming—September 30-October 2!</h2>
<p>Mark your calendars for the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/support/announcements/2015/03/tentative-schedule-announced-for-icpsr">2015 ICPSR Biennial Meeting</a>. This year's conference theme is "Working Together for Effective Data Stewardship." With over 17 workshops and sessions in development, this biennial meeting will highlight ICPSR's core functions, featuring current data collections and data-related tools and exciting new data projects. The meeting will also feature practical approaches and strategies to work with data producers to share data, write data management plans, steward discipline-focused repositories, and locate tools and resources to assist in curating and managing research data. Watch your emails for the registration site available in late spring! The meeting is open to individuals from member institutions.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a07" name="a07"></a>Council News—Calling all Nominations</h2>
<p>The <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/governance/council.html">ICPSR Council</a> is preparing to bid farewell to six fellow members and welcome six new colleagues to the mix. To accomplish this task, ICPSR needs your suggestions. Please note that Council members must be from <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/membership/administration/institutions">member institutions</a>. Nominations should be sent to: <a href="mailto:councilnominees@icpsr.umich.edu">councilnominees@icpsr.umich.edu</a> by April 3, 2015. </p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a08" name="a08"></a>Extending ICPSR's Hall of Fame </h2>
<p>As part of its mission to support the social and behavioral sciences, ICPSR presents <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/awards/">biennial awards</a> to individuals who have distinguished themselves in their service to the social science community. We invite you to help us identify the 2015 winners of the Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences and the William H. Flanigan Award for Distinguished Service as an ICPSR Official Representative. Please email nominations to <a href="mailto:mf-awards@icpsr.umich.edu">mf-awards@icpsr.umich.edu</a> by April 3, 2015.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a09" name="a09"></a>A Look Back at a Year of Expanding Access</h2>
<p>ICPSR's 2013-2014 <a href="http://issuu.com/icpsr/docs/annualreportfy2013_14finalv2">annual report</a> (PDF) is now "Open." The report documents an inventive and productive year in which membership grew to 750, the ICPSR Summer Program achieved record enrollment, and new data-sharing services and collaborations were launched.</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a10" name="a10"></a>ICPSR's Fall Bulletin—A Bounty of Developments</h2>
<p>The <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/files/membership/publications/bulletin/2014-Q2.pdf">2014 Fall ICPSR Bulletin</a> (PDF) details our newest projects, including the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NADAC/">National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture</a> (NADAC) and the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ADDEP/">Archive of Data on Disability to Enable Policy and research</a> (ADDEP). Several other events are highlighted with a special feature on the ICPSR Undergraduate Internship that celebrated its 10th year!</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#d8e0ed;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;"><a id="a11" name="a12"></a>See you in Portland for the ACRL Conference!</h2>
<p>ICPSR travels to Portland for the Association of College & Research Libraries conference, March 25-28. Join us on March 26, at 10:30 in Room F151-152 for, "From Data Sharing to Data Stewardship: <a href="http://s4.goeshow.com/acrl/national/2015/profile.cfm?profile_name=session&master_key=1FF6CC42-BA7B-873D-07F1-E6DC13D216BC&page_key=87F60AB6-D7A0-C448-4F3F-CD77E0931899&xtemplate&userLGNKEY=0">Meeting Federal Data Sharing Requirements</a>," or visit us in the exhibit hall at booth 743. </p>
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