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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">Grow your Software Skills with the Software Carpentry Workshop</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a05">2015 Warren E. Miller Award and William H. Flanigan Award Winners Announced!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a06">Council News: 2017/2018 Membership Fees Set</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a07">FY2016 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">ICPSR Bulletin Sizzling with Summer News!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a11">Announcing the Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science!</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a12">Data Stewardship on Display</a></li>
<li><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#305540" href="#a13">A Farewell to Summer – Interns!</a></li>
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<p style="padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px">Current membership count: 756</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>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 <cite>DataBytes</cite>. </p>
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<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/">2015 ICPSR Meeting</a> starts in just over two months! With more than 17 workshops and sessions, this biennial meeting will highlight ICPSR’s core functions including current data collections and data-related tools and exciting new data projects. The meeting will also impart 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. <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/or/ormeet/register.html">Register here!</a></p>
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<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, September 30. Take an introductory tour through various statistical software used in data analysis, explore the research methods behind the metadata, 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. Spaces are limited—<a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/or/ormeet/register.html">register now</a>!</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a04">Grow your Software Skills with the Software Carpentry Workshop</a></h2>
<p>ICPSR is pleased to host the popular two-day <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/index.html">Software Carpentry workshop</a>, a hands-on two-day event that covers the core skills needed to be productive in a small research team, including version control, data management, and task automation. Short tutorials alternate with practical exercises. No prior experience is necessary. The <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/or/ormeet/data-carpentry.html">Software Carpentry Workshop hosted by ICPSR</a> will run Monday and Tuesday, September 28-29, prior to the start of the ICPSR Meeting.</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a05">2015 Warren E. Miller Award and William H. Flanigan Award Winners Announced!</a></h2>
<p>ICPSR is proud to announce that James S. Jackson (University of Michigan) and Gary M. King (Harvard University) have been named the 2015 Miller Award winners, and Michael D. Martinez (University of Florida) has been named the 2015 Flanigan Award winner. Awards will be presented to each of the honorees at the 2015 ICPSR Meeting on Thursday, October 1. Read more about the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/awards/">awards and former award winners</a>.</p>
<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a06">Council News: 2017/2018 Membership Fees Set</a></h2>
<p>At its June meeting, the ICPSR 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">FY2016 Invoices Due Soon</a></h2>
<p>Invoices for the membership period beginning July 1, 2015, were mailed in May 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">email 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">ICPSR Bulletin Sizzling with Summer News!</a></h2>
<p>What do the ICPSR Summer Program, archiving data in Ghana, FISMA compliance, and cryptography all have in common? All of these activities are featured in the latest <a href="http://issuu.com/icpsr/docs/2015-q1">ICPSR Bulletin</a>!</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a11">Announcing the Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science!</a></h2>
<p>The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) has launched two prizes named for pioneers who laid the foundation for transparency in social science. <a href="http://www.bitss.org/prizes/">Entries</a> are due September 13.</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a12">Data Stewardship on Display</a></h2>
<p>One of the best ways ICPSR communicates the vast resources it has to offer is with its impactful posters, artfully designed to inform and inspire social scientists and data stewards at events around the world. From data management to open access to data curation, ICPSR has it covered. For a review of recent posters, see the <a href="http://issuu.com/icpsr/docs/poster_portfolio_2015">ICPSR Poster Portfolio</a>.</p>
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<h2 style="background-color:#e1ecbd;font-size:12pt;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px"><a name="a13">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 as the program wraps up on August 7. ICPSR wishes them the best of luck! <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/support/announcements/2015/05/icpsr-announces-its-5-undergraduate">ICPSR interns</a> this year included: Ilse Paniagua (Cornell Unversity); Kimberly Gannon (Michigan State University); Cristian Nuno (University of Illinois at Chicago); Rebeca Willis-Conger (Reed College); and Polina Zvavitch (Ohio State University). See more on the <a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/ICPSR/internship/index.html">ICPSR Internship Program</a>.</p>
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