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WASHINGTON, DC – Today marks the beginning of the first-ever international awareness week for Open Access to research, October 19 – 23, 2009. Hundreds of leading academic and research sites in over 30 countries will mark the week in unique ways, and express their support for the advancement of knowledge through free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research.

Open Access Week is designed to help raise awareness of the potential benefits of Open Access to research and to celebrate milestones in making Open Access a norm in the conduct of science and scholarship. Momentum for the incorporation of openness into the fabric of science and scholarship has been steadily growing, as evidenced by the growing number of policies from public and private research funders (including the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest biomedical research funder) and research producers on college and university campuses (including Harvard University, MIT, University College London, the University of Kansas, and the University of Liege).

For information on activities at UAB in celebration of Open Access Week, see Events

FYI

There is now a limit of 25 active requests per person at any one time for ILL.

https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/ill/#limits

The fine for overdue materials is one dollar per day per item.

https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/ill/#overdue

These changes are effective as of Tuesday August 18, 2009.

New Releases through 2009-07-19

Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive along with a list of released data collections that have been updated:

New Additions

23241 National Evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Urban Health Initiative (UHI): Survey of Adults and Youth (SAY), Waves 1-3,
1998-2005
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23241

24591 ABC News/Washington Post Poll, September 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24591

24592 ABC News/Washington Post Poll, October 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24592

24593 ABC News/Washington Post Poll #1, December 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24593

24609 National Exit Poll for the 2006 Mexican Presidential Election
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24609

25203 Housing Affordability Data System (HADS), 2002
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25203

25621 Impact of Legal Advocacy on Intimate Partner Homicide in the United States, 1976-1997
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25621

Updates

2259 National Incident-Based Reporting System, 1995
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02259

2465 National Incident-Based Reporting System, 1996
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02465

2793 National Incident-Based Reporting System, 1997
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02793

3318 National Jail Census, 1999
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03318

3484 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), 2000:
[United States]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03484

3627 Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, Summer 1962
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03627

5209 Data Bank of Minority Group Conflict, 1955-1965
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05209

You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last ninety days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/recent.html.

You can access these reports by going to Sterne’s database page and accessing the ICPSR Direct database from the alphabetic list along the top.

New Releases through 2009-06-29

Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive along with a list of released data collections that have been updated:

New Additions

21862 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): Expert Questionnaire Data,
1999-2003
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR21862

22623 Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences, 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22623

22629 Hurricane Andrew: Its Impact on Law and Social Control [Florida, 1992]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22629

23263 United States National Health Measurement Study, 2005-2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23263

24461 Treatment Episode Data Set — Discharges (TEDS-D), 2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24461

24544 Delegate Votes on 28 Motions at the United States Constitutional Convention, 1787
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24544

25262 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25262

25423 Court Workforce Racial Diversity and Racial Justice in Criminal Case Outcomes in the United States, 2000-2005
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25423

25701 Do Older Adults Know Their Spouses¹ End-of-Life Treatment Preferences?
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25701

Updates

3637 Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior, Spring 1962
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03637

9028 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: 1975-1997
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09028

22300 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Database, 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22300

22626 India Human Development Survey (IHDS), 2005
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22626

You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last ninety days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/recent.html.

More than 2,700 images of archaeological sites and architectural monuments from Bryn Mawr College are now available in the Digital Library. This first release for the Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College) collection includes site plans of architectural monuments and archaeological sites in Europe and the Ancient Near East, particularly sites located in modern-day Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.

To view the Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College) collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College)”; or enter the Keyword Search: plans brynmawr.

I’d like to post a wee correction to yesterday’s news about the changes being made to the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. While the Anthropology and History Departments are indeed merging, they will be called the Department of History and Anthropology, not just the Department of History.

UAB merges departments in Business, SBS

Article Body

UAB has merged departments in the schools of Business and Social & Behavioral Sciences, based on recommendations to the provost from those deans. The plan was approved by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees at its meeting April 17.

Business now will house three departments. The new departments will be Accounting and Finance; Management, Information Systems and Quantitative Methods; and Marketing, Industrial Distribution and Economics.

Social & Behavioral Sciences will house five departments. Anthropology will join the History department, and the former Department of Anthropology and Social Work will become the Department of Sociology and Social Work. The other three departments are Psychology, Government and Justice Sciences.

From the UAB Reporter, 4/20/09

New Releases through 2009-04-05

Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive along with a list of released data collections that have been updated:

New Additions

4517 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 2004 Panel
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04517

20425 Testing a New Mediational Model of the Link Between Maltreatment and Aggression in Adolescence in Upstate New York, 2002-2004
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20425

20622 Assessing Identity Theft Offenders’ Strategies and Perceptions of Risk in the United States, 2006-2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20622

21840 Evaluation of the Bully-Proofing Your School Program in Colorado,
2001-2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR21840

22208 Afrobarometer Round 3: The Quality of Democracy and Governance in Namibia, 2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22208

24382 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), 2003
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24382

24642 Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities, 2005
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24642

25002 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, Criminal Cases, 2008
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25002

Updates

3088 Alcohol and Drug Services Study (ADSS), 1996-1999: [United States]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03088

6084 CBS News Monthly Poll #2, August 1992
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06084

6198 CBS News Los Angeles Poll, January 1993
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06198

6330 CBS News Monthly Poll #1, December 1993 http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06330

6542 National Youth Survey [United States]: Wave VII, 1987
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06542

9146 CBS News California Poll, October 1988
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09146

9233 CBS News “48 Hours” Gun Poll, March 1989
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09233

9613 CBS News Iraq Poll, September 1990
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09613

22300 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22300

22580 Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES): 2003 Cohort [United States] http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR22580

You can also view a list of all studies added and updated in the last ninety days by visiting the ICPSR Web site at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/recent.html.

A new study, “Finding Context: What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age,” discusses various aspects of college life in the digital age. According to the abstract, the study is described as, “

A report of preliminary findings and analysis from student discussion groups held

on 7 U.S. campuses in Fall 2008, as part of Project Information Literacy. Qualitative data from discussions with higher education students across the country suggest that conducting research is particularly challenging. Students’ greatest challenges are related to their perceived inability to find desired materials. Students seek “contexts” as part of the research process. A preliminary typology of the research contexts is developed and introduced. Finding contexts for “backgrounding” topics and for figuring out how to traverse complex information landscapes may be the most difficult part of the research process. Our findings also suggest that students create effective methods for conducting research by using traditional methods, such as libraries, and self-taught, creative workarounds, such as “presearch” and Wikipedia, in different ways.”

William Cronon has produced an online primer for conducting historical research. A noted historian, Cronon and his graduate history seminar students created this site to guide students and lay people alike in research. The site takes us through the research process: questions, documents, searching, notetaking, arguing, positioning and writing with a section on each process. It’s well worth taking a look, whether you’re in the midst of your undergraduate HY 300 paper or a graduate thesis or teaching a history course. Enjoy!