Archive Search 1) Choose which items(s) to search: TitleTitles may include descriptive words indicating content, geographic focus, chronological year(s) of coverage, source of information, major sponsor, and sequence numbers. AbstractAbstracts contains brief summaries which include the research focus and a description of what kind of data were collected. ProducerThe producer is the person or agency with financial or administrative responsibility for the physical processes of creating the data file. This includes the place of production, the name of the person or agency, and, when known, the date of production. Similar to publisher. Principal InvestigatorThe principal investigator is the person, persons, or agency responsible for the dataset's intellectual content or for initiating the study. ICPSR NumberFor data obtained from ICPSR, you may search using ICPSR's study number. CISER Codebook NumberCISER assigns its own codebook numbers for studies for internal organization. 2) Retrieve listings for files on: CISER Research Computing SystemMost files are available to be downloaded from the catalog.File access depends on permission levels which are displayed using traffic light icons. CDROM / DVDThe "Time period" option (below) is not available when searching CDROM / DVD.CDROM / DVD files are not available to be downloaded from the catalog.CDROM / DVD studies do not have abstracts. 3) Specify case: case insensitive case sensitive 4) Search for: 5) Search type: all words match any words match exact phrase 6) Disable truncation: Truncation includes trailing characters.For example, when searching for child:Leave unchecked to include child, childish, children, and childhood.CHECK ✓ to include only child. Results will NOT include childish, children or childhood. 7) Time period: from to Enter 4-digit years only. If left blank all years are searched.
