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Data Driven: Expanding Access to Social Research with ICPSR

February 14, 2018
All Day
Research Commons, 3rd floor of 18th Avenue Library

Time: 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Event Host: University Libraries


The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is an international leader in social science data access, curation, and methods analysis. As part of an ICPSR member institution, researchers at Ohio State University have access to a wealth of data sets, publications, data curation and preservation services, and educational resources. In this Faculty Forum, faculty from Political Science and History will discuss their experiences using ICPSR to find and deposit data, and in participating in the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research. Faculty from the University Libraries will give an overview of how attendees can get started finding and depositing data with ICPSR. This session will be of interest to faculty and students who use social science data in their research.

This panel discussion is part of the Research Commons Faculty Forum Series. Light refreshments will be served.

Presenters include:

  • Janet Box-Steffensmeier (Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science; Director, Program in Statistics & Methodology; Divisional Dean, Social and Behavioral Sciences)
  • Hilary Bussell (Social Sciences Librarian, University Libraries)
  • Skyler Cranmer (Carter Phillips and Sue Henry Associate Professor of Political Science; Director, Network Interdependence in Social Systems (NISS) Laboratory)
  • Randolph Roth (Professor of History and Sociology)

The event is for Ohio State faculty, postdocs and graduate students

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