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All data used for class projects, theses, disseratations, and publications should be cited in references or bibliographies. Click here for details on how to do it: https://guides.library.ucla.edu/citing/intro

The best place to go on campus is the ISSR Data Archive. For more information on data preparation and preservation click on this link: https://www.library.ucla.edu/social-science-data-archive/about-data-archive

The ISR Data Archive serves faculty, staff and students who want to use data for classes and research. For more information about our services and collection please click on this link: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/da

The UCLA Data Archive maintains a collection of public opinion poll data, covering many years and countries. Some of these files come from the Roper Center. Some come from Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). To see what is av...

There are a number of resources you can use to learn about and use census data. The ISSR Data Archive maintains a collection of census data covering many years and countries. https://www.library.ucla.edu/social-science-data-archive/about-data-archive The Cen...

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) holds a summer training program each year. For more information, click: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/

If you are interested in being able to create a personal web page and be able to upload your papers to share with others then take a look at academia.eduhttp://www.academia.edu/This site can be searched by the name of an academic institution and then by depart...

If you are looking for web based and free tools for word processing, power point, database creation, and spreadsheets here are some tools to explore.Zoho www.zoho.com provides a wide range of basic office tools as well as options for managing email, taking not...

I have come across a wiki and a web site with free resources to use in research, especially quantitative and survey research.The Impoverished Social Scientist’s Guide to Free Statistical Software and Resources http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/socsci.shtmlDigita...

If you have some survey data and you want to store it in an archive or share with others, here is a link to Guide to Social Science Data Preparation and Archiving

It is possible that Stat Transfer might work. Please contact the Social Science Data Archive (310) 825-0716 for assistance.

There is a free tool called PollEverywhere.com which can be used in classes and presentations. This is a web based tool and it uses text messaging from students’ cell phones. (polleveryhere.com)A power point presentation by Michael Posner from Villanova on u...

Researchers who are applying for grants from federal agencies, or other funders will need to complete a Data Management Plan as part of the proposal. The Data Science Center is available to anyone for assistance in preparing the plans.The Data Science Center ...

Dedoose is a software tool developed by UCLA faculty, Thomas Weisner and Eli Lieber for use in mixed methods research. It is web based, allows for collaboration, has a suite of visual tools, supports text analysis and the datasets can be imported and exporte...

Here are some resources to use in creating and preparing data in a variety of formats and for a variety of disciplines. The call number are for items in the UCLA libraries.Digital Preparation, Curation and Best Practices Resources Prepared by Libbie Stephen...

There are lots of ways you can store your data for future use. Some things to keep in mind are: How long do I need to keep my data? Is my data in a format that can be used again, even if there are software and operating system changes? Am I required to store ...

Research Data MANTRA http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/ is a course designed for PhD students and others who are planning a research project using digital data.This is a free on-line course for anyone who needs to manage research data including faculty and stu...