Starting Friday, June 23, 1995, Science magazine announced two major projects on Conduct in Science. First, the 23 June issue of Science magazine contains a special section -- "Conduct in Science" -- addressing some of the most pressing issues of day to day conduct in the lab, including allocating credit for research work, authorship, and materials sharing. Second, Science is also debuting an electronic project called "Science Conduct On-line". The interactive project will include ethical scenarios, posted by a panel of five experts in scientific conduct. Readers can react to those scenarios and the panel will respond on-line. The on-line project can be reached on the World Wide Web through Science magazine home page (http://www.aaas.org/science/science.html) under the section called "Beyond the Printed Page."
Three data sets of interest to PAA members are available on-line at the University of Michigan, Survey Research Center. They include, Asset Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old, the Health and Retirement Survey, and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Each survey has a separate home page under the general SRC banner. Although they differ in the availability of the data, they share some basic features. The features include documents containing survey descriptions, sample design and interview content, on-line documentation, field notes, and publications and working papers with both substantive and methodological content. Available data from these surveys can then be obtained through FTP or File Transfer Protocol. The general address for the Survey Research Center can be used to access the home pages for these three useful data sets. The World Web Address is as follows: (You will need web browser technology of some sort to fully utilize this data service but the FTP capacity may be available with simpler Internet services): http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/research.html
Press releases and other information are now available electronically on NSFnews, a free service avaliable on the Internet. To subscribe to NSFnews send an e-mail message to listmanager@nsf.gov. In the body of the message (not the subject line) type "suscribe nsfnews" and then provide your name. The system will reply with a confirmation e-mail. For additional information about NSFnews send mail to listmanager@nsf.govand in the body of the message type "help".
The address for PAA Affairs on the world-wide web is:
http://www.pop.psu.edu/general/pubs/PAA_Affairs
and for those using gopher servers:
gopher.pop.psu.edu/
(It is in the library folder)
To Mike Zimmerman and Stephen Matthews of Penn State, PRI Computing Core--thanks again.