By Jaime Martindale, Map & Geospatial Data Librarian Resources for Sharing and Discovering Geospatial Data Geospatial data is digital geographic content that represents or describes features/phenomena on the earth. It’s useful because it gives us …
Datapoints: the RDS blog
Link Roundup February 2022
Cameron Cook The UW-Madison Libraries have licensed access to the Web of Science data set for UW-Madison researchers to analyze citation patterns and networks. Learn more about it and see how it may be able …
Link Roundup December 2021
Cameron Cook The 2021 State of Open Data report is now available. Registrations on the Open Science Framework (OSF) are now updatable and preserved on the Internet Archive. Learn more about preregistration on OSF and …
Text Analysis Tools in the Libraries
Researchers looking to get started with text analysis can face two common barriers. The first is that copyright restrictions can make it difficult to get access to datasets for text analysis. The second is that …
Open Access Week Resources
This year’s International Open Access Week takes place October 25-31 and the theme is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” International Open Access Week is “a time for the wider community to …
Link Roundup October 2021
Cameron Cook The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released “Developing a Toolkit for Fostering Open Science Practices” which summarizes the proceedings of a workshop by the same name. This toolkit is aimed …
Share your data with UW-Madison’s Dryad membership!
Information adapted from Dryad. We are excited to announce that UW-Madison is now a member of Dryad, an open-access data repository where you can publish and publicly share your research data. This membership was pursued …