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ScholarWorks@UMBC, Research Data Services, and Digital Scholarship Services Post

New from the Library for Research Data Services!

With the ever-changing landscape of data management and dissemination as well as the need for Persistent Identifiers (PID) such as ORCID the Library is here to help! 

Please see the below message from Michelle Flinchbaugh ( flinchba@umbc.edu ).  

New This Year! 

  • A Library Data Scientist can do data analysis and visualization for NIH PIs. See Research Data Services below.
  • UMBC now has open access agreements with some publishers: UMBC Open Access Agreements.
  • Pending the approval of the President, UMBC now has an Open Access Policy.

ScholarWorks@UMBC


The Library will add works to ScholarWorks@UMBC for you. If you've previously sent a list of publications, or link to a list of publications, you don't need to do anything. Each year, we'll automatically add your new works, contacting you for anything we need. 


If we've not yet gone through your works, please send me any of the following:


·   A list of your published works (including works before you were at UMBC). You can send a link to a publications website, a public Google Scholar page, your CV, or just paste a list into an email.

 

·  Your unpublished works with the files attached. These can be reports, lab notes, data, presentation slides, posters, etc. 

 

·  Links to free articles or papers about you, your work, your department, program, lab, or center or about UMBC.

 

·  The name and email address of students who have done outstanding papers or projects for one of your classes, and we’ll include their work in ScholarWorks@UMBC. Include the name and number of the course and the name of the assignment.


Research Data Services

New! A Library Data Scientist can do data analysis and visualization for NIH PIs


Contact: Arushi Agarwal, arushia1@umbc.edu


Arushi Agarwal has a B.Tech Degree in Computer Science from
Amity University, Uttar Pradesh (India), and a Master Degree in Data
Science from UMBC and 7 years of programming work experience. Her
skills include the programming languages Python, SQL, C++, C, and
Selenium, and data analysis and visualization tools such as Pandas,
NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, and
Tableau. Contact her to talk about the data analysis and visualization work
that she can do for your NIH Grant.


Guide to Research Data


Information on where to find data, and how to cite data. Additionally, we have information on topics in research data management, such as data management plansdocumentation, file organization and version control. Finally we provide information on several free tools for data integration, analysis and visualization


Data Management and Sharing Support for NIH PIs 

The Library can provide hands-on assistance with: 


      Projecting the cost of data management and sharing

      Data management planning and plans

      Project and data documentation

      Organization of files and folders

      Data collection, storage, and back-up

      Data description

      Data sharing and preservation


Lab Archives


UMBC has an institutional subscription to Lab ArchivesIt allows you to organize and share your research notes and data with your research group so that you can easily work together and communicate. It includes access control, change history, disaster-recovery back-ups, and more. For free access via the UMBC subscription using your myUMBC login, when you login, select UMBC from the list of institutions with single sign-on access.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)


UMBC has a membership in ICSPR, an international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSRmaintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. UMBC’s membership gives all authorized library users free full access. Be sure you use your UMBC email address when creating an account to be authenticated as a member. ICPSR offers 15,000+ Studies from 40 social and behavioral science disciplines and much more. Find data here: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/ICPSR/index.html.


Digital Scholarship Services


ORCID


Save Time! There are a bunch of fast and easy ways to quickly load lots of your works' citations into ORCID then into Digital Measures. Many publishers and professional organizations can also automatically load materials into ORCID for you if you give them permission. ORCID is a type of author identifier, so be sure to use the form of your name that you prefer to use on publications and to give the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as your employer. For more information on ORCID or instructions on how to set up your ORCID, see https://lib.guides.umbc.edu/c.php?g=1047837


UMBC Faculty Expert Search Tool


UMBC now has Faculty Expert Database. Faculty can turn their listing in it on so that it draws information from Digital Measures by visiting umbc.edu/go/directory-info and under Profile Format select Digital Measures. Directory information, Personal and Contact Information, and other Digital Measures items you have specifically selected will display in your public profile. Full instructions are here: How to update your profile in UMBC’s new faculty expert search tool


The Digital Scholarship Services website includes information on all of the above services, plus more.


Guides

Posted: October 22, 2024, 9:51 AM