An international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
ICPSR's educational activities include the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research external link, a comprehensive curriculum of intensive courses in research design, statistics, data analysis, and social methodology. ICPSR also leads several initiatives that encourage use of data in teaching, particularly for undergraduate instruction.
ICPSR-sponsored research focuses on the emerging challenges of digital curation and data science. ICPSR researchers also examine substantive issues related to our collections, with an emphasis on historical demography and the environment.
ICPSR receives grants from a number of government agencies and private foundations.
ICPSR is a unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and maintains its office in Ann Arbor.
In einer Stellungnahme zum "Dritten Korb" des Urheberrechts fordert der Deutsche Bibliotheksverband (dbv) eine Lockerung des geltenden Urheberrechts. So sollen unter anderem die Wiedergabe von Dokumenten an elektronischen Leseplätzen und das Recht auf Privatkopie ausgeweitet werden. Welche Folgen dies für Verlage haben könnte, fragte boersenblatt.net in einem Gespräch mit Gabriele Beger, Vorsitzende des dbv und Direktorin der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg.
"über einen begrenzten Zeitraum eine Teilmenge der im EconBiz-Fachinformationsführer enthaltenen Internetquellen in Social-Bookmarking-Webseiten angeboten werden. Ziel ist es Erkenntnisse darüber zu gewinnen"
Verleger und Autoren wehren sich auf Initiative des Heidelberger Professors Roland Reuß gegen eine "Enteignung" durch Google und Open Access. Ihre Argumentation ist haarstraubend, voller Fehler und gefährlich
Publishing humanities monographs in Open Access
OAPEN is a project in Open Access publishing for humanities and social sciences monographs. The consortium of University-based academic publishers who make up OAPEN believe that the time is ripe to bring the successes of scientific Open Access publishing to the humanities and social sciences.
The OAPEN partners are all active in the Open Access movement already, with details available on their pages on this site and on their own websites.
The project will find useful, exciting and beneficial ways of publishing scholarly work in Open Access, enhancing access to important peer reviewed research from across Europe. Most importantly it will find a financial model which is appropriate to scholarly humanities monographs, a publishing platform which is beneficial to all users and create a network of publishing partners across Europe and the rest of the world.
The partners:
Amsterdam University Press
Georg-August Universität Göttingen
Museum Tusculanum Press
Manchester University Press
Presses Universitaires de Lyon
Firenze University Press
University of Amsterdam
Leiden University
The mission of Portico is to preserve scholarly literature published in electronic form and to ensure that these materials remain accessible to future scholars, researchers, and students.
P. Heymann, G. Koutrika, and H. Garcia-Molina. WSDM '08: Proceedings of the international conference on Web search and web data mining, page 195--206. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)