Final Reminder- Library GIS Contest Deadline March 30, 2013

Students are invited to present their GIS Mapping work as part of a campus-wide celebration of geospatial research at Boston College.  
Deadline March 30, 2013

Prizes will be awarded to the top student entries which will be displayed in the O’Neill Library Wednesday, April 17, 2013.

Details: http://www.bc.edu/giscontest

Previous winning poster displaying BC Tree Inventory. For more winners go the the BC GIS Guide

New ICPSR Data March 2013

• 26381 National Survey of Juvenile Justice Professionals, 2005-2007 [United States]
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR26381.v1
• 30461 Eurobarometer 72.4: Globalization, Financial and Economic Crisis, Social Change and Values, EU Policies and Decision Making, and Global Challenges, October-November 2009
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30461.v1
• 31401 The Impact of Childhood Behavior Problems on Child Care and Employment Decision-Making: A Nationally Representative Panel Study
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR31401.v1
• 34182 Determinants of Chicago Neighborhood Homicide Trends, 1980-2000
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34182.v1
• 34319 Annual Probation Survey, 2008
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34319.v1
• 34320 Annual Probation Survey, 2009
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34320.v1
• 34543 Computer Assisted Quality of Life and Symptom Assessment of Complex Patients from April 2011-August 2012: Chicago, Illinois
  http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34543.v1

Roper Opinion Polls- Hot Topics March 2013

Topics At A Glance: Crime/Gun Regulation

Topics At A Glance: Immigration

Topics At A Glance: Economy

Topics At A Glance: Health Care

New ICPSR Studies

34430 Mathematics Teaching in the 21st Century
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34430.v1

33822 Integrated Public Health Surveys, 2010-2011
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33822.v1

27541 Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, 1997-2010 -- Concatenated Data [United States]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27541.v2

30821 Children at Risk in the Child Welfare System: Collaborations to Promote School Readiness
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30821.v1

34563 Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults From All Five Sites of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment, 2008-2010 [Public Use Data]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34563.v1

What's New OECD

National Accounts at a Glance 2013
http://dx.doi.org.proxy.bc.edu/10.1787/na_glance-2013-en


OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

PISA 2012 Assessment and Analytical Framework

Mathematics, Reading, Science, Problem Solving and Financial Literacy

http://dx.doi.org.proxy.bc.edu/10.1787/9789264190511-en

Do Policies that Reduce Unemployment Raise its Volatility? Evidence from OECD Countries. Working Paper
http://dx.doi.org.proxy.bc.edu/10.1787/5k4c9kmlg08v-en 

OECD Highlights: OECD Factbook 2013 and more . .

OECD Factbook 2013: Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics

OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators 2012 analyses the role of productivity as the main driver of economic growth and convergence and the contributions of labour, capital and Multi-Factor Productivity (MFP) in driving economic growth.

Grade Expectations: How Marks and Education PoliciesShape Students' Ambitions.