Welcome to the Data and Information Services Center (DISC)!

What's New at DISC?

The operations of the Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) have been merged with the data services operations formerly housed in the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging. The combined staff of DISC will continue to provide all the same services to DPLS users as were available prior to this merger. Additional services will be provided as DISC develops over time; watch the web site and newsletter for announcements.

See the latest edition of DISC News -- April 2008 (HTML) or April 2008 (PDF).

Environment Gets High Marks in Badger Poll and other recent data-related articles.

The National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences is sponsoring a three-day advanced studies seminar in Washington, DC, August 12-14, on the use of the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) database. For more details on this seminar and to register, please visit: http://ies.ed.gov/whatsnew/conferences/?id=319. Applications are due June 23.

The ICPSR Summer Program in Ann Arbor, Michigan is now accepting applications for summer 2008. Four-week sessions run June 23 through July 18, and July 21 through August 15. One travel stipend is available through DISC for defraying the cost of one individual traveling to Ann Arbor for the ICPSR Summer Program... more details and links here.

Links to Country Statistical Yearbooks worldwide: a new feature on the DISC web site. 103 countries, and counting!

Current Social Science Research Reports (CSSRR), weekly web-based current awareness reports in the fields of sociology, economics, and health, are now available on the DISC web site. Subscribe to the weekly e-mail alert, with links to the latest full reports!

Check out what's new at other selected data sites.

Check out our Internet Crossroads, providing searchable annotated links to social science data and information across the Internet. You can also see a list of the latest additions to the Internet Crossroads (last updated 28 April 2008).