Providing Social Science Data Services:
Strategies for Design and Operation

ICPSR August 2012

Additional Readings

• Some old service plans
  See also this report realted to Data Management:
  Reznik-Zellen, R., Adamick, J., & McGinty, S. (2012). Tiers of Research Data Support Services. Journal of eScience Librarianship, 1(1). doi:doi:10.7191/jeslib.2012.1002
• Some old collection development polices
• 4 Scales for Evaluating Current Data Services
• Bowker, G. C., & Star, S. L. (2000). Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. The MIT Press.
  In Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. They investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis.
• Robinson, David G., Yu, Harlan, Zeller, William P. and Felten, Edward W., Government Data and the Invisible Hand (Fall 2009). Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 11, p. 160, 2009. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1138083