presentation on data services at uncg
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A description of the services offered to UNCG faculty, staff, and students.TRANSCRIPT
Supporting data discovery
Data Portal: http://library.uncg.edu/data_services/
UNCG’s Dataland: http://uncgdataland.blogspot.com/
Services
Data Instruction Finding government statistics and data Using specific resources such as ICPSR or
SimplyMap
Data Consultations One-on-one assistance distinguishing between
sources of data for research projects.
Services
Data Acquisitions Identifying general use data sets to acquire.
Relevancy and demand: The primary consideration for acquisition will be relevance to research and teaching needs at UNCG.
Physical format of data Duplication Authority of data Accessibility
Cost
Services
Assist users in acquiring freely available data in conjunction with the library liaison.
Attempt to purchase data sets for UNCG researchers dependent upon funding and the Library’s ability to comply with license and use restrictions.
Policies
Methodological questions or data analysis and interpretation are not in the scope of the Library's Data Services.
The Library does not support GIS but offers GIS-lite products such as SimplyMap.
Policies
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR’s mission is to: Collect and preserve research data. Disseminate data for further analysis and instruction by
researchers, scholars and instructors. Serve as a leading quantitative analysis training resource.
Access ICPSR from the Database list.
ICPSR
One of the world’s oldest and largest social science data archives, est. 1962
Seek research data and pertinent documents from researchers
Process and preserve the data and documents
Disseminate data
Provide education, training, & instructional resources
What does ICPSR do?
Write articles, papers, or theses using research data
Conduct secondary research to support findings of current research or to generate new findings
Use as intro material in grant proposals Preserve/disseminate primary research
data Fulfill data management plan (grant)
requirements Study or teach quantitative methods
Why People Use ICPSR?
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health General Social Surveys (1972-2010 Cumulative) National Survey on Drug Use and Health World Handbook of Political & Social Indicators III National Survey of Midlife Development in the US Chinese Household Income Project American National Election Study: 2008 Pre- and Post-
Election Survey Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study Globalization Comparative Panel Dataset India Human Development Survey
Most Popular ICPSR Downloads this Past Year:
What’s in an ICPSR “Download?”
Documentation files - pdfs Questionnaire Codebook Description & Citation
Data in many forms! SPSS, SAS, Stata ASCII
MyData account – operates as authentication and like a shopping cart!
Authenticate once every six months on campus and you can carry it with you
“Shopping” for Data: The MyData Account
A searchable database . . . containing over 62,500 citations of known
published and unpublished works resulting from analyses of data archived at ICPSR
Works are associated with their relevant study… Example:
The Structure of Southern Electoral Behavior Example: Southern Political Party Activists
The Bibliography of Data-related Literature
Enables ICPSR users to: Search & Compare Variables across datasets Assists in:
Data discovery Comparison/harmonization projects Data harvesting & data analysis Question mining for designing new
research Research methods & substantive courses
instruction
The Social Science Variables Database at ICPSR
Analyze & Compare Variables
Interested in Online Datasets?“View SDA Studies”
SDA Output
Gender variable by occasions smoked marijuana variable
Instruction on the tools and practices needed to analyze data
For those with math phobia and those with advanced analysis skills
3-5 day workshops and 4-8 week courses Primarily held at Univ of Mich. Some courses on other campuses
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/
ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods
Bringing Data Into the Classroom
• Studies with learning guides• Latino vs. Hispanic Debate• Body Image, Gender, and Sc
hool Experience in Adolescence
Online Modules
Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA) National Archive of Computerized Data on A
ging (NACDA) National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Progr
am (NAHDAP) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Ar
chive (SAMHDA) Resource Center for Minority Data
Archives within ICPSR
Research paper competitions -- a research journal experience & cash prizes!
Paid student internships focusing on investigating social sciences research
Research Opportunities for Students
Explore the website - www.icpsr.umich.edu
Sign up for our email announcements - www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/membership/lists/index.jsp
“Like” ICPSR on Facebook/follow ICPSR on Twitter
Attend or view our webinars (open to the public!)
Contact user support – [email protected]
Contact your Official Representative – [email protected]
For More Info on ICPSR:
The Statement Heard Round the Research World
The National Science Foundation has released a requirement for proposal submissions regarding the management of data generated using NSF support. Starting in January, 2011, all proposals must include a data management plan (DMP).
The plan should be short, no more than two pages, and will be submitted as a supplementary document. The plan will need to address two main topics: What data are generated by your research? What is your plan for managing the data?
Data Management
ICPSR’s DMP Web Site
My data management site: http://uncg.libguides.com/dmp DMPTool: template for DMP
Archive your data for free through NC DOCKS using the Odum Institute’s Dataverse site Contact Lynda if you are interested!
Local Data Management Resources
