Author: Elliott Smith

Emerging Technologies & Bioinformatics Librarian @ University of California Berkeley
Data Science, GitHub, reproducibility, Tools & Resources

Lab manuals for data management and reproducibility

I am a collaborator in my institution’s Responsible Conduct in Research instruction. After one recent session on data management best practices, a postdoc participant requested a consultation with us. He wanted guidance about how to establish and maintain a lab culture that fosters reproducible science. This question has taken on special urgency in the wake of the highly publicized case of former Stanford University President … Continue reading Lab manuals for data management and reproducibility

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Open Access, Publishing, Tools & Resources

Research Organization Registry

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

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Data Science, Information Literacy, Open Access, Publishing, Tools & Resources

FAIRsharing.org

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

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