The company hopes the platform will help scientists to locate datasets quickly and painlessly.
Part I will show you how to locate datasets and Part IIwill show you how to select data variables.
For surveys with U.S. national adult or major subpopulation samples (such as registered voters, women, or African Americans), iPOLL can be used as the primary finding aid to locate datasets on particular topics or for specific time periods.
For state, foreign, and other special samples, the Search for Datasets tool should be used to locate datasets by searching for keywords that would be found in the abstract of the surveys, interview dates, country, survey organization, or type of sample.
Bone marrow, hematopoietic, CD34 and stem cells were used as search terms to locate datasets containing gene expression profiles of normal human hematopoietic cells.
While searching with the word "station" often locates station data, including the word "grid" in a search will not effectively locate gridded datasets as it is commonly used on the pages of both types of datasets.
How do I locate relevant datasets?
A PubMed-like search interface at the fMRI data center locates datasets; the datasets are too large to send over the internet so are mailed as DVDs in response to (online) requests.
In addition to clarifying exactly what resource is being cited, a DOI can be resolved to locate the referenced dataset.
