Task 2: Program to Support Data Preparation
This task will supplement an existing task on the NAHDAP contract. In order to increase applications, a new outreach campaign and additional technical support through travel and on-site support will be necessary. An evaluation of the grant program will be added to help advise NIDA staff about future activities.

Add three additional awards to program competition currently in place.
Reissue announcement of competition with new outreach efforts
Expand recruitment efforts for reviewers
Additional financial management and reporting requirements
Add additional technical support for awardees
Produce a report on the success of the program at the end of the award period

Task 3: Special Issue for Journal on Secondary Data Use in Research on Drug Abuse
NAHDAP?s role in this task will be to coordinate the recruitment and evaluation of manuscripts and work with NIDA staff and journal staff to create special issue. This is a new task in the NAHDAP contract. The tasks for NAHDAP staff will be coordination, administrative management, and communication. NIDA staff will provide substantive oversight of journal selection, potential authors, and manuscript reviewers. NAHDAP director will assist in writing an introductory editorial on secondary data use.
Coordinate journal selection and work with NIDA staff to build procedures for submission and evaluation
Develop and implement outreach campaign to identify authors
Help identify and coordinate review process with journal
Provide support for NIDA staff in communication with authors
NAHDAP Director will help write an editorial on secondary data use in behavioral science approaches to medical research.

Task 3: Enhanced dissemination
This subtask complements an existing task for NAHDAP by improving the data discovery tools available for exploring the NAHDAP collection. NAHDAP/ICPSR currently has two systems that allow users to search for data. One system operates at the study (data collection) level and allows searches of author, titles, abstracts, subject headings, keywords, and other information describing the study as a whole. The second system, the Social Science Variables Database, searches for individual variables by examining variable names, labels, and question text. An SSSVD search returns a list of variables, which are associated with studies and the datasets within studies, and searches may be conducted across all studies or within studies. This subtask will create a unified search system that will be capable of both kinds of searching and allow users to customize the search strategy that they use. The new system will
? Search all available metadata (study, variable, value) simultaneously.
? Find studies that include multiple variables of interest. For example, a user may want a dataset that includes both ?religiosity? and ?income.?
? Display the source of all search results by showing whether a match was found in the abstract, study-level keywords, variable label, question text, etc.
? Allow customize searching strategies. Users may choose to search only at the study-level information or only at the variable descriptions. Users will also be able to search for variables within a single study.
? “Find more like this” functionality will help users to find variables related to those retrieved in their search.
As part of improving the SSVD navigation NAHDAP staff will recruit users to test the new system. Testing will assure that the search functions meet the needs of active secondary researchers.