Sponsors

	We would like to thank this year’s sponsors of IASSIST 2008. Their generous support has played an important role in organizing our conference. (Click on a sponsor's name or logo to visit their web site.)
	Host & Reception Sponsor
	Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) includes more than 30 libraries and programs supporting research, teaching, and learning at Stanford University. SULAIR acquires and delivers library collections in all formats, establishes policies and standards to guide the use of academic information resources, develops training and support programs for academic uses of computers, and maintains a broad array of electronic information resources, including the online library catalog and several hundred article and indexing databases and electronic journal subscriptions.

	Gold Sponsors
	Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), is a center of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, located in Palisades, New York. CIESIN uses its expertise in research and development, spatial visualization, electronic data management, and training to explore interactions between humans and the environment. We aim to provide researchers, decision makers, managers, journalists and the general public with access to high-quality data and information on environmental and socioeconomic changes and environmental sustainability at global, regional, and local scales.
	Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. To ensure that data resources are available to future generations of scholars, ICPSR preserves data, migrating them to new storage media as changes in technology warrant. In addition, ICPSR provides user support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects.
	Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) The Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) draws together research teams from Stanford’s social science departments, in collaboration with internationally recognized scholars from Stanford’s seven schools and other research universities, to advance socially relevant and consequential research. The Institute currently hosts eight centers and programs focused on the problems of poverty and inequality, democratic stability, and the impacts of philanthropy and entrepreneurship.
	Open Data Foundation (ODaF) The Open Data Foundation (ODaF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the adoption of global metadata standards and the development of open-source solutions promoting the use of statistical data. We focus on improving data and metadata accessibility and overall quality in support of research, policy making, and transparency, in the fields of economics, finance, healthcare, education, labor, social science, technology, agriculture, development, and the environment. While we see this information as being primarily statistical in nature, it is understood that it can be drawn from a wide variety of sources and therefore may include information not traditionally seen as such.
	Roper Center for Public Opinion Research The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. The Roper Center is the leading educational facility in the field of public opinion. The Center exists to promote the intelligent, responsible and imaginative use of public opinion in addressing the problems faced by Americans and citizens of other nations.
	Library at UC Berkeley The Library at UC Berkeley contains one of the finest research collections in the country. The Library consists of Doe Library, the Bancroft Library, Moffitt Library, and more than 20 subject specialty libraries serving a variety of academic disciplines. The holdings of the University Library system include over 9 million book volumes, 89,750 current serial publications, 415,900 pamphlets, 5 million microform items, 402,650 maps, 109,000 government documents, 61,900 sound recordings, and 6,350 videos

	Silver Sponsor
	Survey Research Center (SRC) The Survey Research Center (SRC) at UC Berkeley is celebrating its 50th year serving as the principal unit for survey and related social science research methods on the Berkeley campus. SRC researchers are leaders in developing innovative empirical research methods for asking people about their attitudes and behaviors, observing their relationships and activities, and collecting information about their experiences. The Center has an international reputation for collecting, processing, and disseminating survey, administrative, and ethnographic information. SRC serves as a center for UC Berkeley social scientists who develop and use these methods.