Engineering
Specialty Center
The
Engineering Specialty Center, CSU Sacramento, provides access
to a wide range of Engineering software, training, and documentation.
Systemwide licenses are in place with Autodesk, SDRC, Microstation,
Parametric Technology and several other suppliers of engineering
software.
Contact
Djemel Sadi at (562) 985-8128 for details.
Geographic
Information Systems Specialty Center
The
Geographic Information Systems Specialty Center at San Francisco
State University provides site licenses for software products
from Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Redlands,
California. The CSU System is an institutional member of the
California Geographic Information Association (CGIA).
A GIS is a comprehensive database tied to location, with an integrated
set of tools for querying, analyzing, and displaying that information.
GIS technology is multidisciplinary and can be used in any discipline
where information can be mapped to provide a visual perspective.
It provides a good complement with SSDBA for mapping data. The
GIS Specialty Center can be found at: http://www.sfsu.edu/~gis/CSU/spcl.html.
Contact
James Woods at (562) 985-2128.
Macromolecular
Structural Analysis Resource Core Specialty Center
The
Macromolecular Structural Analysis Resource Core (MSARC), at San
Diego State University, provides facilities, expanded services
and expert consulting for DNA/protein structural analysis. Contact
James Varnell, MSARC Directory, College of Sciences, San Diego
State University (619) 594-4881 or varnell@sciences.sdsu.edu.
Contact
Dr. Lisa Klig at (562) 985-2424 for details.
Social
Science Database Archive Specialty Center
The
Social Sciences Database
Archive at CSU Los Angeles, provides training, access to polling
and survey data, census data, social science data, instructional
modules (both substantive & methodological), and many other
types of data (e.g., health care, educational, economic, etc.)
and related services. The SSDBA provides access to datasets from
the ICPSR, the Roper Center, the Field Institute, and CSU faculty.
Fill out the form at
http://venus.calstatela.edu/Subscribe/acctform.html
to get an SSDBA account.
Subscribers may search the holdings of the following vendors and
place orders directly from the SSDBA web page.
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
(ICPSR) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Data on economic, sociological,
historical, organizational, social, psychological, and political
concerns occurring in over 130 countries.
- California Field Polls. Measures prominent social and political
issues. The data is timely and valuable for research and instruction.
- The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Data available
on over 10,000 separate surveys.
- Census Bureau. California 2000 census available on-line,
as well as census data for years back to 1900. Additional census
data is available upon request.
Contact Frank Gossette
at (562) 985-7808 for details.
