Data and Program Library Service - DPLS
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Address:
3308 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin 53706 - USA
Phone: +1 608 262 7962
Website:
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/ |
Affiliation:
The DPLS is a special library at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Data collections:
The DPLS holds over 3,000 data sets
covering the full range of the social sciences, including political
economic, and social survey data.
About 80% of the data sets come from the Inter-university Consortium
for Political and Social Research. The remaining 20% are primarily
archival data deposited by Wisconsin researchers and data purchased
from other sources.
The DPLS distributes archival data at cost. Some examples of the
archival data available through the DPLS are:
- Occupational Changes in a Generation
- Wisconsin High School Student Panel
Study of Social and Psychological Factors in Status Attainment
- Slave Ship Records of
Nineteenth-century England
- Psychological Factors in Status
Attainment
- Surveys of Natural Scientists and
Engineers
- Recent Science and Engineering
Graduates
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Data holding, retrieval & provision:
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Browse by
Subject (result: study description linked with subject area)
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Simple search by Keyword (result: dto.)
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Field-Specific Search (result: dto.) provides
Study Number - Orig. Archive Number - Region - Year - Documentation Distributor - Access Status - Title
- Investigator
- Abstract
- Provision & rules of access:
The DPLS distributes archival data at cost.
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Further services & facilities:
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Newsletter:
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DPLS News contains updates about research data locally and
globally. It is published twice a semester by the library staff (online).
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Publication:
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User and Resource Guides with Dataset Users Guides for
- CPS Utilities Users Guide [Software]
- Datastream Users Guide [Software]
- OECD Statistical Compendium: CD-ROM
Users Guide
- International Financial Statistics
Users Guide
- United Nations Statistical Yearbook
Users Guide
- Women's Indicators and Statistics on
CD-ROM Users Guide
- World Bank World Data Indicators on
CD-ROM Users Guide
- World Bank World Debt Tables;
External Finance for Developing Countries on CD-ROM Users Guide
- World Bank World Development
Indicators on CD-ROM, 1997 Users Guide
- World Bank Global Development
Finance Data on CD-ROM, 1997 Users Guide
- German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)
and PSID-GSOEP Equivalent Data File Workshop User Guide
- Luxembourg Income Study Users Guide
- International Social Survey
Programme Data Users Guide
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Online Bibliographies for Archival Studies held by the DPLS
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