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“ICPSR – Navigating the Data (R)Evolution!” Data Fair – Free Webinars

ICPSR logoICPSR (the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) is offering a four-day series of free webinars on various topics re: documenting, archiving, and sharing social science datasets. It takes place Monday, September 26 through Thursday, September 29 – click here for the full agenda and to register.

Georgia State University is a member institution of ICPSR, which gives all students, faculty, and staff access to the ICPSR database.

Want to learn more about how to use ICPSR? Attend the following workshop:

Finding Social Science Datasets with ICPSR

Monday, November 14, 11:00am-12:30pm, Atlanta Campus Library North Classroom 2 (2nd floor, corner area above Saxby’s coffee shop) – Registrations open at Monday, October 24, 2016 11:00am

This workshop will give an overview of using ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) to find social sciences datasets for use in original data analysis. We will cover different searching and browsing techniques for identifying relevant datasets, understanding a dataset record and other documentation describing datasets, and the processes for downloading datasets and obtaining restricted-use datasets.