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DATA LIBRARY
Humanities & Social Sciences Library University of Alberta |
DATA ORGANIZATIONS
ACCOLEDS
(A COPPUL Consortium Of Library Electronic Data Services) is a consortium
of Canadian Prairie, Pacific, and Maritime data libraries, which work in
concert to provide access to data and data services in their institutions.
Through COPPUL, ACCOLEDS members share a federation membership in the ICPSR.
IASSIST
(International Organization for Social Science Information Service and
Techonology) is an international organization dedicated to the issues and
concerns of data librarians, data archivists, data producers, and data
users. This unique professional association assists members in their support
of social science research.
CAPDU
(Canadian Association of Public Data Users) is a member of the
Congress of the Social
Sciences and Humanities.
Its annual meeting occurs in conjunction with the
Congress
Conference three years out of four, the exception being when the IASSIST
conference is held in Canada.
Membership in CAPDU is open to users, distributors,
and producers of data within Canada.
DLI
The "Data Liberation Initiative"(DLI) provides Canadian academic
institutions with affordable access to Statistics Canada data files and
databases for teaching and research. The DLI is a co-operative effort
among the Humanities and Social Science Federation of Canada (HSSFC), the
Canadian Association of Research Libraries(CARL), the Canadian Association
of Public Data Users (CAPDU), the Canadian Association of Small University
Libraries (CASUL), Statistics Canada and other government departments.