[SAMHDA] New web site, upcoming data releases

[SAMHDA-Announcements]

The following are updates from SAMHDA:

New web site

SAMHDA released its new web site this morning. The new site includes 
several enhancements, including:

**  More intuitive, straight-forward navigation;
**  More web site content linked from the homepage;
**  Homepage links to most popular studies, which will be updated monthly 
based on file downloads and uses on the online data analysis system (DAS).

Please also note that the default search mechanism will be our 
variable-level search. This searches all meta-data (study descriptions, 
variable and value labels, and question text) for  studies on the DAS. The 
search may run somewhat slowly depending on the search terms entered, but 
it searches thousands of variables at one time. For more information on the 
variable-level search, see the OAS Short Report "The NHSDA Report: Finding 
Specific Variables in the NHSDA" 
(http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k3/FindVariables/FindVariables.cfm). Options 
for searching study descriptions and the web site remain available. Contact 
us with any questions regarding the new site.

Upcoming

Upcoming data releases and their approximate release dates include:

2003 Treatment Episode Data Set, July/August 2005
2004 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Systems (N-SSATS), 
August/September 2005
1992-2002 Treatment Episode Data Set updates, Summer/Fall 2005
2004 Monitoring the Future, October 2005

Ongoing

We appreciate the appropriate citation for analyses using data obtained 
from SAMHDA. Each SAMHDA study description and codebook includes a 
suggested bibliographic citation for the data. For more information on 
appropriately citing electronic data files, see 
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/org/citation.html.

We welcome the submission of citations for publications based on our data 
holdings for our online citations database. Use the Web form on the 
following page for submitting citations: 
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA/ref-form.html. You may submit papers, 
book chapters, etc. that are not yet published and we will track and add 
them to the database once they are published. To access the citations 
database, select the "related literature" link for a given study or series.

Call our toll-free helpline or email us with any questions or problems 
regarding our data holdings, online data analysis system, or web site.

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA)
"A national resource providing public data access and online analysis"
(888) 741-7242 (toll-free helpline)     (734) 647-8200 (fax)
User support: 
samhda-support at icpsr.umich.edu     http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/SAMHDA

SAMHDA is sponsored by the Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)








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