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NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy: What, Why, and What’s Next

So, you want to write an NIH grant and need to know more about their new policy on Data Management & Sharing Plans? This session will highlight its key elements and changes, give an overview of the background and rationale of the new policy, and help you lay out a path for successfully meeting its […]

Open Scholarship: Open Access, Open Science, Open Data

Open Scholarship advocates for research to be transparent and openly available to all. In this workshop, we’ll give an overview of the Open Science movement and the general principles including access to publications and the underlying research process, FAIR data, and initiatives within scholarly communications that support “openness” of the research endeavor (preprints, registered reports, […]

Drop-in Data Services Help with Data Valentines

Got Valentine's Day plans? Stop by the Countway Library Information Desk to learn about data services and get help with any data management questions from Julie Goldman, Countway Research Data Services Librarian.

Practical Considerations for Managing Sensitive Data

Data sharing is becoming an increasingly prevalent and expected part of the research process. Researchers may be hesitant to share datasets about human subjects, and rightfully so. While some data […]

Spring Cleaning for Your Data

Whether you’re motivated by the joy-sparking tidying up of Marie Kondo, or get inspired by a good old-fashioned spring-cleaning spree, now is a great time to clean up your data. […]

Organize Your Data: Files and Spreadsheets

Data organization refers to classifying and organizing data sets to make them more useful. Once you create, gather, or start manipulating data and files, they can quickly become disorganized. To […]

Data Documentation: Writing Better READMEs

To ensure that you understand your own data and to enable others to find, use and properly cite your data, it helps to create README files with ‘documentation’ or ‘metadata’ about […]