Secondary Research Data Resources at BC- October 23, 2008

October 23, 2008 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, Gasson 9

Boston College offers many sources and repositories of data for secondary research in the social sciences, education, nursing, economics, business and other disciplines. This workshop is particularly geared to researchers who need to access, analyze and manipulate data from BC's subscription data repositories. This tutorial will help you: find the data you need for your research or class project; learn about the Boston College collection of data resources in the Statistical Data Catalog; and how to download the data onto your desktop, including how to import into quantitative analytical tools such as SPSS. Get a tour of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, a data archive that includes over 5,000 datasets. We will also discuss the library’s guides to key Business, Economics, Education, Health, and General U.S. and cross-national data sources. Topics may be customized based on attendees’ research interests.

Co-instructors: Rani Dalgin, ITS Research Services and Barabara Mento, Data/GIS Librarian

To sign up for a tutorial, please send email to researchservices@bc.edu with the name of the tutorial.

For more ITS Research Services tutorials Fall 2008 see:

http://www.bc.edu/offices/researchservices/tutorials.html

Welcome to a New academic Year

Hello to All of You ----Faculty, Students, and Staff!
Welcome to a New Academic Year!
In your adventure of new programs, faculty and colleagues, please remember you can count on the librarians and staff in the libraries to provide services and resources for your classes, clinicals and research.
Two important initiatives for this Academic Year are first, the search for a nursing database to replace our current version of CINAHL through SilverPlatter. SilverPlatter will not be published after 12/31/2008.
We are exploring:
OvidSP's Nursing@OVID (our current provider of CINAHL) (contact anderswb@bc.edu about access)
EBSCO's CINAHL http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search?vid=1&hid=104&sid=0935b0c8-e206-4a95-b709-9727e2c109c8%40sessionmgr108

Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Source http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=302&cfc=1

and Elsevier's MOSBY'S Nursing index http://www.mosbysnursingindex.com/ (contact anderswb@bc.edu for Mosby's username & password).

Secondly we are in the beginning stages of exploring e-books as a future format for some Nursing Reference Books. Any input about the usability/desirability of this format is welcome.

Rani Dalgin & Barbara Mento are offering some wonderful Research and Information Technology Services tutorials on data analysis, surveys and GIS (Geographic Information Services). The Fall 2008 tutorials are at:
http://www.bc.edu/offices/researchservices/tutorials.html

Have a great New Year! Wanda Anderson, Nursing Reference Librarian anderswb@bc.edu