Dissertation Information for Kathleen M. HeimNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA ARCHIVES: A USER STUDY Abstract: The primary purposes of the study were to demonstrate that the changing methodological orientation of the social sciences has created a demand for a new information service, the data archive, to meet the research needs of social scientists, and to develop a descriptive investigation of data archive use in order to provide the emerging data archive profession with a basis for the development, refinement, and enhancement of quantitative services to the social sciences. The data archive is examined as it has developed over the last twenty-five years in response to needs articulated by quantitative social scientists. International efforts to build a data archive infrastructure are studied in order to understand the role of the international information community in the creation of a policy making body for data archive development. National level efforts in the United States are also investigated in order to demonstrate the problems that archive professionals have had in structuring a systematic response to the social sciences' need for statistical information. The review of the literature examines the small number of studies which have looked at isolated segments of the archive user community. The investigation conducted for this study was specifically designed to determine the user profile of a model archive of the general purpose, local-service type--the Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. User records at DPLS for a ten year period (1967-1976) were analyzed to determine use of the collection, categories of use, sources and foci of the data used, longitudinal use of studies, and characteristics of users of studies of different types. |
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