The document outlines data services provided by UNCG including aggregating and advertising data sources through a data portal and blog, providing data education sessions, and one-on-one data consultations. It discusses the criteria for acquiring data including relevance, format, duplication, authority, accessibility, and cost. The library will assist with acquiring freely available data and purchasing data dependent on funding. It also describes the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) which collects and disseminates research data and provides quantitative analysis training resources.

1. DATA SERVICES AT
UNCG
March 20, 2009

3. Services
 Aggregating and Advertizing Data & Statistical
Sources
 Data Portal: http://library.uncg.edu/data_services/
 UNCG’s Dataland:
http://uncgdataland.blogspot.com/
 Delicious page: http://delicious.com/uncgdata

4. Services
 Data Education
 Sessions on finding government statistics and
data
 Data Consultations
 One-on-one assistance distinguishing between
sources of data for research projects.
 Assistance identifying

5. Services
 Data Acquisitions
 Identifying general use data sets to acquire.
 Relevancy and demand: The primary consideration
for acquisition will be relevance to research and
teaching needs at UNCG.
 Physical format of data
 Duplication
 Authority of data
 Accessibility
 Cost

6. Policies
 Assist users in acquiring freely available data
in conjunction with the library liaison.
 Attempt to purchase data sets for UNCG
researchers dependent upon funding and the
Library’s ability to comply with license and use
restrictions.
 Methodological questions or data analysis and
interpretation are beyond the scope of the
Library's Data Services.
 The Library does not currently support GIS

7. ICPSR
 The Inter-university Consortium for Political and
Social Research
 ICPSR’s mission is to:
 Collect and preserve research data.
 Disseminate data for further analysis and instruction
by researchers, scholars and instructors.
 Serve as a leading quantitative analysis training
resource.
 Access ICPSR from the Database list.

8. Archives within ICPSR
 Child Care & Early Education, Research
Connections
 132 datasets and over 11,000 resources on child
care and early education

9. Other Data Sources
 National Center for Education Statistics Data
Analysis System
 Includes Pre-Elementary Education Longitudinal
Study (PEELS) from the National Center for
Special Education Research
 National Longitudinal Transition Study-2
 IDEAdata.org
 Special Education Elementary Longitudinal
Study

10. Additional Tools
 Data Use Tutorial
 Bibliography of Data Related Literature
 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative
Methods
 SAS and SPSS tutorials