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April 6, 2005
Issue No. 68

Table of Contents

• Highlights and Features
  • Important Software Updates
    
  • Make Your PC Secure
    
  • New Stanford Web Resources
    
  • Find It At Stanford
    
  • New Telecommunications Fee
    
  • Multimedia Course in Dorms
    
  • New Version of Grokker
    
  • Streaming Media Services
    
  • Google Tips and Tools
    
  • Free Assistive Technology
    
  • Student Computing Survey 2005
    
  • Your Web Pages and WebAuth
    
  • StanfordYou Enhanced
    
  • Computer Labs for Rent
    

• Library Resources
  • Music E-resources
    
  • Scholars Workshops-Spring
    
  • Black Thought Database
    
  • Literary Studies Database
    
  • New SSRC Web Site
    
  • SSDS Helps with Data
    
  • AIP Backfiles Available
    
  • CSA Illumina on SULAIR Web
    
  • New Web of Science Features
    
  • HighWire Press New Journals
    
  • Cyclopedia of Puzzles
    
  • New NYPL Image Archive
    

• Computing News
  • Software Licensing News
    
  • ATL Helps Faculty and TAs
    
  • CTL Workshops and More
    
  • Recent ATS Projects
    
  • New Wide Format Printer
    
  • Kronos Upgrade
    
  • Online Computer Training
    
  • STARS-Training Registration
    
  • Bookstore Computer Store
    
  • Stanford Joins Calconnect
    

Social Science Data and Software (SSDS), a group within the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR), provides assistance and support in locating social science data and in selecting and using quantitative and qualitative data analysis software. SSDS staff members provide these services in a variety of ways that include consulting, workshops, and help documentation. Detailed information about SSDS resources and services, including a schedule for walk-in consultations, can be found on their web site at:

http://ssds.stanford.edu/

Locating Social Science Data

Data specialists can help you navigate the key SSDS virtual and local data resources available to Stanford faculty, staff and students. Resources include:

• ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
• Data Extraction Web Interface (DEWI), a Web-based application for accessing social science numeric data
• A rich collection of data on CD-ROM from U.S. federal agencies, international organizations, foreign governments, consortia and commercial sources that cover a range of social science topics and time periods

Selecting and Using Data Analysis Software

Consultants provide support in the use of quantitative and qualitative data analysis software, offering assistance and information for researchers who are at various stages of their projects. Topics include survey design, tips for data entry, solutions to common software problems, data management, and data reshaping and conversion. Researchers who wish to use quantitative software in their projects can get help with popular statistical analysis packages such as SPSS, SAS, and Stata. Qualitative data analysis software can help organize and analyze interviews, field notes, photographs, and other types of data and includes NVivo, ATLAS.ti and SPSS Text analysis for Surveys."Getting Started" guides for supported software and other help documents are available for viewing and downloading from the SSDS Web site.