IASSIST

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Conferences

The annual conference provides data professionals a variety of opportunities to participate in discussions about research data and data support activities. In addition there are regional IASSIST workshops or IASSIST sponsored events.

IASSIST Quarterly

The IQ represents an international cooperative effort on the part of individuals managing, operating, or using machine-readable data archives, data libraries, and data services.

Jobs Repository

The IASSIST Jobs Repository is a record of job descriptions posted to the members’ email list from 2005 to the present, providing a communal resource for employers and job-hunters.

Webinars

Community webinars organized by the IASSIST Professional Development Committee.

Discussion list

Our professional communication and news channel. An important source of support for members to query other data professionals.

Membership

Join or manage your membership.

IASSIST Store

IASSIST branded products on Redbubble

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From iBlog

iBlog is IASSIST’s own blog. Entries on various topics are written by our members.

Editors' notes: Building infrastructure and networks – rewards and challenges

By IQ Editor on September 27, 2024

Welcome to the third issue of IASSIST Quarterly for 2024, IQ vol. 48(3) 2024 . As we are moving towards an open research environment, institutions are building infructractures that will enable sharing data and other research resources with a wider audience. The authors of the three papers in this issue offer our readers the benefit of their experience by sharing what they have learned through the process of establishing new infrustractures and networks.

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Editors' notes: Assessing needs and developing solutions

By IQ Editor on June 26, 2024

Welcome to second issue of IASSIST Quarterly for 2024, IQ vol. 48(2) 2024 . It was wonderful to meet so many old and new colleagues at the Best IASSIST Ever in Halifax. It was really inspiring to learn about all the great work that is being done by members of this community. For those of you who presented, please consider turning your conference presentation or poster into a paper and submitting it to IQ.

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My First IASSIST Conference Experience

By Ruby Lindsay on June 19, 2024

As an early-career academic librarian, I was grateful and excited to attend the 49th Annual Conference of IASSIST. The conference took place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from May 28 – 31, 2024. This year, the conference theme was Uncharted: Navigating the Future of Data. Georges Island National Historic Site near the Halifax waterfront. Photo: Ruby Lindsay. When planning my conference schedule, I found sessions on topics related to my expertise, aiming to gain a deeper understanding.

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Editors' notes: Developing systems to encourage FAIR and secure research data

By IQ Editor on March 28, 2024

Welcome to first issue of IASSIST Quarterly for 2024; this is Volume 48 of the journal, IQ vol. 48(1) 2024 . The three papers in this issue represent different aspects of researchers’ use of data archives. Experts from three major data archives (ICPSR, IPUMS, and GESIS) share their experiences developing systems to make research resources in their archives more findable, accessible, and usable. Lafia, Million, and Hemphill in their article Exploratory and directed search strategies at a social science data archive investigate search strategies of users of a large social science data archive.

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