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

• IASSIST web site, http://www.iassistdata.org/
  
  
• IASST-L e-mail list, including a searchable archive of past posts, at http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iasst-l.html
  
  
• IASSIST conferences, including multimedia presentations from past conferences, http://www.iassistdata.org/conferences/
  
  
• IASSIST Quarterly (IQ), online in PDF since 1993, http://www.iassistdata.org/publications/iq/
  
  
• IASSIST Communique blog, http://iassistblog.org/
  

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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

• American National Election Studies, e-mail updates
  http://www.umich.edu/~nes/joinmail.htm
  
  
• Gallup Poll
  RSS feeds (http://poll.gallup.com/RSS/)
  E-mail alerts (https://commerce.gallup.com/ma/alerts/)
  
  
• Luxembourg Income Study Newsletter; PDF, once or twice a year; also linked from What’s New page (http://www.lisproject.org/whatsnew.htm) http://www.lisproject.org/publications/newsletter/
  
  
• NLS News, quarterly by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in PDF
  http://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsnews.htm
  
  
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), update in HTML on the site, or sign up for e-mail updates
  http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/Guide/News.aspx
  
  
• SOEP Newsletter - from the German Socio-Economic Panel, online in PDF with e-mail notification
  http://www.diw.de/english/sop/newsletter/index.html

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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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Subscription Journals

• DttP (Documents to the People), quarterly publiction of the American Library Association's Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT)
  http://www.ala.org/ala/godort/dttp/dttponline/Default6913.htm
  
  
• Government Information Quarterly (Elsevier)
  http://www.elsevier.com/locate/govinf/
  
  
• Social Science Computer Review (Sage), quarterly
  http://ssc.sagepub.com/