International Open Access Week 2024 is here! This year’s theme is “Community over Commercialization” —and from Oct. 21 to 27, the Libraries is highlighting some of the many ways you can leverage community resources and support to make your work open access (OA) for free. Welcome to day two of International Open Access (OA) WeekContinue reading “Learning about open data during Open Access Week 2024”
Category Archives: Research Data
Learning about Green Open Access-OA Week 2024
International Open Access Week 2024 is here! This year’s theme is “Community over Commercialization” —and from Oct. 21 to 27, the Libraries is highlighting some of the many ways you can leverage community resources and support to make your work open access (OA) for free. Welcome to day one of International Open Access Week 2024!Continue reading “Learning about Green Open Access-OA Week 2024”
Get expert help with your data management plan
Do you need a data management and sharing plan (DMSP) for your grant proposal? The University of Iowa Libraries Research Data Services can help! Brian Westra, data services librarian, is available to help you create a data management plan in alignment with funding agency requirements. If you have questions about: Which repository is most appropriateContinue reading “Get expert help with your data management plan”
Celebrating Open Access Week 2023
Open Access Faculty Panel Discussion Happy Open Access Week! We’re celebrating this year’s theme “Community over Commercialization” with a faculty panel discussion on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, at noon CDT on Zoom. Panelists include Leonardo Marchini, DEO and professor in Preventative and Community Dentistry, Kembrew McLeod, department chair and professor in Communication Studies, Maurine Neiman, professor in Biology, and DeborahContinue reading “Celebrating Open Access Week 2023”
Open Access Faculty Panel Discussion – Community over Commercialization
You’re Invited Join faculty leaders from all over campus in celebrating International Open Access Week 2023 with a panel discussion on the theme of Open Access: Community over Commercialization. The UI Libraries’ Scholarly Impact department will be hosting the webinar on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, at noon CDT. In what promises to be a livelyContinue reading “Open Access Faculty Panel Discussion – Community over Commercialization”
How-To: Uploading Your Datasets into IRO
Iowa Research Online (IRO) is the institutional repository managed by the University of Iowa Libraries for UI researchers to use for preserving and providing open access to data, code, and other research and creative scholarship. These videos provide a quick introduction to four steps for sharing research data via IRO. For more information, see ourContinue reading “How-To: Uploading Your Datasets into IRO”
DMPTool Helps Researchers Write Data Management and Sharing Plans
Because funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) now require data management and sharing plans as part of grant applications, researchers tasked with writing these documents may feel at a loss about where to start. Luckily, University of Iowa researchers have support in this process. Not onlyContinue reading “DMPTool Helps Researchers Write Data Management and Sharing Plans”
CADRE platform to be retired, assistance available during transition
The library directors of the Big Ten Academic Alliance recently made the decision to sunset the CADRE platform and its associated services due to low usage and continued challenges in resourcing technical support for the platform. As a result, the CADRE platform will be retired on June 30, 2023. Continued access to the CADRE GatewayContinue reading “CADRE platform to be retired, assistance available during transition”
The Power of Persistent Identifiers in Data Sharing
Every researcher has likely seen Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) attached to the articles they read, cite, and publish. As unique codes that distinguish a specific research article, dataset, or other digital object, DOIs make it much easier to find and cite the work of other scholars. What you may not know, however, is that DOIsContinue reading “The Power of Persistent Identifiers in Data Sharing”
Data Curation: Adding Value to Your Dataset
You may already know that the University of Iowa’s institutional repository, Iowa Research Online (IRO), provides both preservation and access to your dataset for the long term. You may not know, however, that Research Data Services in the Scholarly Impact Department at the UI Libraries also offers another key service to researchers depositing their dataContinue reading “Data Curation: Adding Value to Your Dataset”