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*******APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING****** The UK Data Archive is pleased to announce the release of a number of major datasets now available for browsing, exploring and downloading via NESSTAR. Anyone can search for and view the full metadata (catalogue record and codebook), and non-commercial users registered with UK Data Archive can also explore/analyse and download the data. Survey data include selected years from the major data series: * General Household Survey (GHS) * Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) * Health Survey for England (HSE) * British Election Surveys (BES) (also available to unregistered users) * British Social Attitudes Surveys (BSAS) * Together with some other individual popular datasets such as the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey and the ONS Omnibus survey Data can be downloaded free of charge by FE and HE institutions who are eligible for JISC services. Users need to register with the UK data archive. This online service will be extended to other data collections within the UKDA on a continuous basis, with more datasets being mounted on the system over the coming months. NESSTAR NESSTAR is a set of internet-based tools to provide an enhanced online service for data providers and data users that gives easier and quicker access to data and information about that data. It is available within a Web browser (NESSTAR Light) or as a freely downloadable application (NESSTAR Explorer). Users can: * search for and list datasets * browse dataset documentation * browse and analyse data * visualise data * bookmark searches and analyses * download data (including subsets) in a number of formats (including SPSS, SAS and STATA) (coming soon) Further instructions on using NESSTAR to access these datasets can be found at: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/usingData/nesstar.asp Susan M Eales Collections Manager - FE JISC DNER Strand Bridge House 138-142 The Strand LONDON. WC2R 1HH Tel: 020 7848 2495 Fax: 020 7848 2939 E-mail: [log in to unmask]