The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR, Michigan) and journals publisher Elsevier, announced a new article-to-data cross-linking project on 9 February. “Over 400 Elsevier journals will offer direct linking options with datasets in ICPSR. These behavioral and social science datasets become discoverable through corresponding research articles on ScienceDirect… Vice versa, research articles on ScienceDirect can also be accessed directly from within the ICPSR datasets.” The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data archive is a large-scale, multi-disciplinary repository hosted at the University of Michigan since 1962.

 Join the ICPSR  for a Webinar on Monday, October 28, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT.   No registration required.   Visit https://connect.umms.med.umich.edu/mccloskey/ and enter as a Guest  Description: Existence, arbitrary statistical significance, philosophical possibilities uncalibrated to the sizes of important effects in the world are useless for science. Yet in medical science, in population biology, in much of sociology, political […]

The ICPSR Summer Program is held on the campus of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Lectures and workshops on a wide variety of topics in research design, quantitative reasoning, statistical methods, and data processing are presented in two four week sessions. The first session runs from June 24, 2013 until July 19, 2013. […]

General Orientation to ICPSR Data Services – Webinar on Feb 4th This webcast will be a fast-paced overview of data services and training provided by ICPSR.  This session will provide a solid foundation for the February “In-Depth with ICPSR” sessions that follow!  More information…

Scheduled for October 1-3, the series of webcasts will focus on orienting new users to ICPSR’s data and services, as well as providing an overview of the election data available from ICPSR and other data repositories.