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ICPSR Offers Guidance on Data Management Plans

By m.vardigan

November 3, 2010

In response to NSF’s new requirement for data management plans in grant applications, ICPSR recently rolled out new Web pages providing guidance on how to create such plans effectively: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/dmp/. The guidelines provide a detailed list of the possible elements of a data management plan, developed through a scan of existing recommendations for such plans from around the world. The site provides some examples of data management plans as well as links to related resources.

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data in the C&RL (news)

By lyndamk

November 2, 2010

One of our own IASSISTers, Hailey Mooney, has an article on data services in this month’s College & Research Libraries News (http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/9/480.full) Woohoo!! Congrats Hailey. Big ups to data!!

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More on the Canadian Long Form Census

By bo@uoguelph.ca

October 6, 2010

This is a truly fascinating set of events unfurling in Canada. I thought I would add a bit (in too many words) for those of you who don’t have the pleasure of Canadian media outlets. J Parliament recently resumed and there have been a number of significant issues, like abolishing the LONG Gun Registry, G8/G20 spending and a new Governor General who happens to be a former University President. Still, the LONG form census continues to make headlines – do you notice a theme around abolishing programs with the word LONG in them?

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IASSIST letter to Canadian Government on loss of 2011 Census long form

By robin

October 5, 2010

Industry Canada Office of the Honourable Tony Clement Minister of Industry C.D. Howe Building 235 Queen Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0H5 25 July 2010 Dear Minister Clement We write on behalf of the International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology. IASSIST is an international organization of professionals working in and with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences. Its 300 members are from a variety of workplaces, including data archives, statistical agencies, research centers, libraries, academic departments, government departments, and non-profit organizations.

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IASSIST Twitter Account!

By Amy West

September 23, 2010

Your friendly web editors have some news about the IASSIST web presence! We’re happy to report that we now have an official organizational Twitter account: [https://twitter.com/iassistdata. We hope to use this account to facilitate additional communication among IASSIST members. Ways to view this Twitter account: https://www.iassistdata.org/ - Does not require Twitter account follow https://twitter.com/iassistdata (and we’ll follow you in return) subscribe to the RSS feed of https://twitter.com/iassistdata at https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/156331061.rss - Does not require Twitter account Each of these views will include posts by https://twitter.

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E-Science and Data Support

By bo@uoguelph.ca

August 25, 2010

[[[E-Science and Data Support Services: A Study of Association of Research Libraries Member Institutions http://bit.ly/cKmaO6]{.entry-content}]{.status-content}]{.status-body} . This was tweeted to our site last week, but in case you weren’t following the tweets, this is worth a read. There are quotes from IASSIST folks, and there is some interesting information in it, in terms of what people are doing. This may help shape what you are doing. It has been blogged and tweeted elsewhere and is now posted on the Educause site.

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World Statistics Day

By k.mcneill

August 18, 2010

“On 20 October, 2010 [20.10.2010] the World will celebrate the first World Statistics Day, to raise awareness of the many achievements of official statistics premised on the core values of service, professionalism, and integrity.” For more information and resources, see: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/

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United States National Center for Education Statistics DataLab

By Amy West

August 2, 2010

The National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Datalab, introduced earlier this year by the United States Department of Education, provides a user-friendly entry to NCES data. The home page, linked above, links to QuickStats for users of summary data needing quick tables or charts (requires click-through agreement to terms of use) PowerStats for users of microdata needing to run linear and logistic regressions (requires free user registration) Library for users looking for prepared summary tables Links to the Restricted-Use Data Procedures Manual NCES also promises to soon make available tables already created via the QuickStats and PowerStats tools which would be potentially the most powerful aspect of the Datalab.

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OECD Factbook 2010 for iPhone

By Amy West

August 2, 2010

The OECD has created an iPhone app for the OECD Factbook. From the site “The OECD Factbook App presents 100 economic indicators in a format specially designed for your iPhone. Now, wherever you are, you have easy access to a comprehensive statistical picture of the world’s major economies from the most reliable source: OECD. The OECD Factbook is organised around 12 themes such as population and migration, macroeconomic trends, and globalization.

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CAPDU - Canadian Census

By bo@uoguelph.ca

July 16, 2010

More info on what the response has been in Canada is available here: http://capdu.wordpress.com/ Very interesting to watch this unfold if you are interested in data or interested in how these community responses develop.

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ICPSR Offers Guidance on Data Management Plans

data in the C&RL (news)

More on the Canadian Long Form Census

IASSIST letter to Canadian Government on loss of 2011 Census long form

IASSIST Twitter Account!

E-Science and Data Support

World Statistics Day

United States National Center for Education Statistics DataLab

OECD Factbook 2010 for iPhone

CAPDU - Canadian Census

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