Open Science Framework (OSF) is a fully open access tool, for use in any discipline, which can be applied to virtually all stages of the research lifecycle from the planning and design phase all the way through to publication, access and reuse. Before diving into OSF, let’s back up a bit and talk about open science which refers to a set of principles and practices … Continue reading Open Science Framework (OSF)
Figuring out where to start when looking for datasets can be an arduous task for many students and faculty. Common roadblocks are buried information on government websites, limited access to dataset databases at their institution or a unique topic makes finding data difficult through typical exploration. Google Dataset Search, a tool developed by Google in 2018, may help to simplify this process. What is Google Dataset … Continue reading Using Google Dataset Search to find Open Data
Open Science is a hot topic right now, but it can be a little confusing as to what it all entails. Broadly speaking, Open Science is about making scientific research transparent and accessible to all. It encourages knowledge to be developed through increased collaboration. More specifically, “Open Science is the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute, where research … Continue reading What is Open Science Anyways?
The book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert reviews the five previous mass extinction events on Earth and warns that we are currently faced with another, this time driven largely by man-made causes. Providing members of the public, conservation organizations, and government officials with reliable information and generating awareness about those species in danger of potential extinction is one step in countering … Continue reading IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
DrugBank Online is a free database that provides information on FDA-approved drugs and drug targets. The database started in 2006 in Dr. David Wishart’s lab at the University of Alberta, Canada. The database is now managed by OMx Personal Health Analytics and the University of Alberta (Wishart et al., 2018). DrugBank is described as a “… bioinformatics–cheminformatics database with a strong focus on quantitative, analytic … Continue reading DrugBank Online
I work for an institution that is commonly referred to in a dozen different ways, among them University of California Berkeley (also with a hyphen, comma, or “at” after “California”), UC Berkeley (also with periods after the initials), UCB, California, Cal, Cal Berkeley, and just plain Berkeley. Even institutions that are referred to in less variable ways can change names, merge with another organization, split … Continue reading Research Organization Registry
ZbMATH Open is an open access database that indexes journals, monographs, proceedings, dissertations, conference proceedings, and collected volumes in pure and applied mathematics with database coverage from 1826 to the present. zbMATH Open includes the content from Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete (1932 – present), Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik (1868-1944), and additional retrospective journal information back to 1826. The database has been … Continue reading ZbMATH Open: An Open Access Mathematical Literature Database
FAIRsharing.org is a curated, searchable registry of metadata standards; databases and repositories; and funder and journal policies that are relevant to specific domains or types of data. Figure 1. FAIRsharing.org home page. Accessed 28 November 2022 at https://fairsharing.org/ Background: The benefits of data sharing have been powerfully demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic: shared data made possible the rapid development of public health policies, treatment guidelines, … Continue reading FAIRsharing.org
University Libraries at Virginia Tech (UL at VT) has long supported students and faculty with a variety of formal, informal, or co-curricular undergraduate research (UR) training. Virginia Tech (VT) is a research-intensive (R1), land-grant institution with students participating in research projects across the university and beyond. Librarians at VT began to notice that multiple librarians were receiving similar instruction requests for sessions in support of … Continue reading Libraries and Undergraduate Research Training
Text & data mining (TDM) is quickly becoming a popular tool in STEM programs, but how do you get started? This blog post will help guide you with a general overview of TDM and provide links to open access data, subscription data resources, tools that will help you to analyze and visualize data and give suggestions to help you get organized. What is Text & … Continue reading Getting Started with Text & Data Mining
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