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A Growing List of Data Journals
by Katherine Akers* In one of my recent projects, I’ve been investigating the development and current state of data journals and other scholarly journals that publish data papers. Rather than forming arguments or drawing conclusions from data, data papers call … Continue reading
Conference Highlights: Research Data Access & Preservation Summit 2014
by Fe Sferdean In March I attended the 2014 Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP14) Summit in San Diego. The three day Summit, focusing on research data management, access, and preservation, included invited panels and presentations, a poster session, lightning … Continue reading
Deep Dive into Psychology Data
by Katherine Akers* Continuing our research data education program for librarians at the University of Michigan Library, Susan Turkel (Psychology & Sociology Librarian) and I (eScience Librarian, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, and psychologist by training) recently led a Deep Dive into … Continue reading
Post-Conference Thoughts: Re-capturing Data Conversations in Political Science
by Natsuko Nicholls More than 200 attendees gathered in San Francisco for the 9th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC14, Feb 24-27) to discuss data-driven transformations in research, education, business, and society. IDCC14 began with a stimulating pre-conference workshop and an inspiring … Continue reading
Deep Dive into Data
by Scott Martin Following our successful two-part workshop in Research Data Concepts for librarians at the University of Michigan Library, the Data Education Working Group wanted to follow up with a series of workshops exploring subject-specific data landscapes. This presented … Continue reading
Research Lifecycle Model at UM
by Fe Sferdean In the library’s efforts to support campus research and identify areas of engagement, a Research Lifecycle Committee was created to investigate, define, implement, and sustain the service model for supporting the research community. The committee is comprised … Continue reading
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Exploring the Possibility of Partnering with Disciplinary Data Repositories
by Katherine Akers Academic librarians motivated to preserve the scholarly record of their institutions may promote the deposit of research data into institutional repositories instead of relevant disciplinary repositories, resulting in competition between the two types of repositories. Rather than … Continue reading
Data Education: Outreach and Inreach at UM
by Natsuko Nicholls and Katherine Akers In this blog post, the RDS team provides an update on how the University of Michigan (UM) Library has been developing and providing data education and training workshops for both librarians and researchers. Data Management Workshop … Continue reading
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How to Support Faculty Writing Data Management Plans (DMPs)
by Natsuko Nicholls Engineering Data Support Pilot at UM As promised in the previous blog post, I’d like to share a narrative about Engineering librarians who have been increasingly engaged in offering data management services and resources for Michigan researchers. … Continue reading
Key Foci of Library Data Services: ‘Human-driven’ Conversations and Interactions that Librarians Can Offer
by Natsuko Nicholls Highlight of the DLF Forum 2013 In early November, eight of us from the University of Michigan Library attended the DLF Forum in Austin, TX. It was my first time attending the Forum where over 350 attendees … Continue reading
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