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