Keeping Current In Social Science Data
(Without Paddling Upstream)
A Selection of Sources
for Professional Reading in Social Science Data
IASSIST
Discussion (e-mail lists & discussion blogs)
Data Archive & Association Newsletters
Statistical Agency News & Updates
Survey & Product Updates
Current Awareness (blogs, reviews, and other digests)
Subscription Journals
IASSIST
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Discussion
- ANSS-L, the listserv from ANSS, the Anthropology and Sociology section of the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
http://www.lib.odu.edu/anss/index.html
- BUSLIB-L, a high-volume listserv aimed at business librarians
http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/buslib-l.html
- CAPDU-L, listserv for members of the Canadian Association of Public Data Users
https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/capdu.html
- Data Interest Group for Reference Services (DIGRS) -- blog stemming from Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/dli.htm) – most of the 2006 activity is Canadian data reference
http://blogs.library.ualberta.ca/digrs/
- DLILIST, listserv for discussion of Canada's Data Liberation Initiative
http://www.statcan.ca/english/Dli/sub.htm
- Geocommunity GIS discussion lists, including GIS-List, Metadata-L, and ArcView-List. The page also includes links to other GIS lists.
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/community/lists/
- GOVDOC-L, a listserv discussion forum about U.S. government information and the Federal Depository Library program
http://govdoc-l.org/
- ICPSR
E-mail announcement lists, including recent updates and additions, Eurobarometer announcements, and a list restricted to official representatives (ORs)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/org/elists.html
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Data Archive & Association Newsletters
- Association of Public Data Users (APDU) Newsletter, online in PDF, U.S. public data news
http://www.apdu.org/resources/apduPubs.htm
- Association of Religion Data Archives Newsletter, via e-mail but not posted on the web site.
http://www.thearda.com/newsletter/
- CIESIN – Center for International Earth Science Information Network
News page at http://www.ciesin.org/news.html
- COSSA Washington Update (Coalition of Social Science Associations) - recent edition online in PDF, otherwise available by print subscription
http://www.cossa.org/
- CPANDA (Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive)
Monthly e-mail news update, also on the web site.
http://www.cpanda.org/news/newsletter.html
- Danish Data Archive
Metode & Data, annual publication print & PDF, includes an English summary
http://www.sa.dk/dda/salgservice/default.htm
New DDAInfo newsletter in Danish, three times a year, print or e-mail
http://ddd.dda.dk/ddakatalog/nyhedsbrev/nyhedsbrev.htm
- DPLS News from the Data & Program Library Service, University of Wisconsin-Madison; twice-per-semester in PDF, HTML or print, with e-mail alert available.
http://www.disc.wisc.edu/discnews.html
- Economic and Social Data Service
UK Databytes, quarterly newsletter of the Economic and Social Data Service, available in PDF online or in paper, http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/ukdatabytes.asp
ESDS News e-mail list, http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/joinmaillist.asp
ESDS and UKDA RSS-feed, http://www.esds.ac.uk/news/rss.asp
- EDS News, An Occasional Bulletin on Data, Statistics and Research Computing, from the Electronic Data Service at Columbia University; online in HTML or via e-mail
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/news/index.html
- FSD Bulletin, from the Finnish Social Science Data Archive, an occasional publication online in HTML
http://www.fsd.uta.fi/english/news/
- German Social Science Infrastructure (GESIS) publications; primarily in PDF, all in German
http://www.gesis.org/en/publications/index.htm
- Focus on MIMAS quarterly newsletter from the Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS),
available in PDF, HTML, or print.
http://www.mimas.ac.uk/focus/
- ICPSR Bulletin; semi-annual publication, online in PDF
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/org/publications/bulletin/index.html
- Israel Social Science Data Center (ISDC); web page of news and announcements
http://isdc.huji.ac.il/newsarch.shtml
- NSDnytt quarterly online newsletter (only in Norwegian), from Norwegian Social Data Services
http://www.nsd.uib.no/nsd/nsdnytt/
- Population Research Institute at Penn State University
News from the PRI Library and Data Archives blog -- receive updates by e-mail or RSS
http://info.pop.psu.edu/
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Data
E-mail newsletter, sign up on home page
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/
- Sociometrics news page, including Archive Reporter (PDF, latest issue June 2005) http://www.socio.com/news.htm
- University of Edinburgh Data Library
"What's New for Data Users" web page, including links to data-library articles in BITs, the University of Edinburgh’s Bulletin of IT Services
http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/new.html
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Statistical Agency News & Updates
Note: This list covers only a few of the myriad statistical agencies worldwide! For a fuller list of international statistical agencies, see DPLS' list at
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/newcrossroads/links.asp?cat=International+Statistical+Agencies, or the U.S. Census Bureau's list at http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, E-mail alerts and RSS feed
http://www.abs.gov.au/
- National Bureau of Statistics of China; the English-language homepage lists news and statistical releases
http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/
- EuroStat
E-mail alerts on themes or collections; RSS feeds available for news releases, "Statistics in Focus" reports, and European Statistical System member countries
http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/
- INEGI – Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica
(Mexico)
Sala de Prensa (Press Room) section of web site – in Spanish only
http://www.inegi.gob.mx/inegi/contenidos/espanol/prensa/default.asp?c=269
- National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (France), INSEE e-mail alert for announcement of publications
http://www.insee.fr/en/ppp/abonnement/abonnement.asp
- National Institute of Statistics
(Spain), English-language RSS news feed
http://www.ine.es/en/rss/rss_en.htm
- Statistics Bureau of Japan; “What’s New” index at http://www.stat.go.jp/english/whatsnew/index.htm
and quarterly news bulletin at http://www.stat.go.jp/english/info/news/index.htm
- Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland, e-mail alerts in German only
http://www.destatis.de/presse/deutsch/majordomo.htm
- Statistics Canada - The Daily (e-mail or RSS)
http://www.statcan.ca/english/dai-quo/subs.htm
- UK National Statistics Online, RSS feed for top news stories
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
- U.S. Bureau of the Census mailing lists (e-mail or RSS)
http://lists.census.gov/mailman/listinfo/
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
e-mail updates
http://service.govdelivery.com/service/multi_subscribe.html?code=USBEA
- U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics e-mail updates
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/whtsnw2.htm
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics News Service
E-mail news releases, http://www.bls.gov/bls/list.htm
News releases web site, http://www.bls.gov/bls/whatsnew.htm
- U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
"What’s new" page, http://www.bts.gov/whatsnew/index.html and RSS feeds for press releases, http://www.bts.gov/rss/
- U.S. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
News Flash E-mail updates, http://nces.ed.gov/newsflash/
NCES “What’s New” page, http://nces.ed.gov/whatsnew/
- U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) e-mail lists page
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/elecannounc/nchslists.htm
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Survey updates / Product updates
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Current Awareness (Blogs, Reviews, and other Digests)
- Current Awareness in Aging Report (CAAR) - weekly e-mail from the Center for Demography of Health and Aging and the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/pubs/caar.html
- Current Cites, edited by Roy Tennant; a monthly annotated bibliography of 8-12
selected articles, books, and digital documents on information technology, via e-mail or RSS.
http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/
- Current DEmographic Research Reports (CDERR) - weekly e-mail with searchable back issues on the web, from the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison;
reports, articles, conferences, legislative updates, data, websites.
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/library/cderr/subscribe.htm
- Directions Magazine; E-mail newsletter in the field of GIS, particularly the monthly “Directions on Data” at http://www.directionsmedia.net/newsletters.subscription/
All Points Blog for location technology and GIS, http://www.allpointsblog.com/
- Geospatial Industry Newswire a daily e-mail publication from GeoComm
http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/subscribe.html
- GISCafe News; news releases posted online at
http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/display_news.php?section=CorpNews
or via RSS,
http://www10.giscafe.com/rss/terms.php
- Liberal Education Today - a blog from NITLE (a not-for-profit organization deploying emerging technologies, particularly GIS, in liberal education)
http://apps.nitle.org/blog/
- ResourceShelf, edited by Gary Price; prolific blog of online resources for information professionals, updated daily; also available as weekly e-mail.
http://www.resourceshelf.com/
See also ResourceShelf's Docuticker blog, a daily update of new reports from government agencies, NGO's, think tanks, and other groups, at http://www.docuticker.com/
- SOSIG: What's New from the Social Science Information Gateway
Read news items and additions to the collection of annotated websites online, or subscribe to e-mail updates for particular subject categories. Note that the service is being reorganized in mid-2006!
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/whats-new.html
- SSDC News blog, by James A. Jacobs at the Social Sciences Data Collection, University of California San Diego
http://gort.ucsd.edu/mtdocs/ssdc/
- SSDS blog, by Ron Nakao at Social Science Data & Software, Stanford University; many posts cover ICPSR, NCES, Roper Center and U.S. Census communications
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ssds/weblog/
- Stat-Scan from Econdata.net, monthly e-mail of website reviews plus announcing calls for comments on U.S. federal data collection efforts
http://econdata.net/, old issues archived at http://www.econdata.net/content_whatsnew_archive.html
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