December 2016 Link Roundup

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In this series, members of the RDS team share links to research data related stories, resources, and news that caught their eye each month. Feel free to share your favorite stories with us on Twitter @UWMadRschSvcs!

Cameron Cook

HathiTrust announced its Extracted Features Dataset which allows researchers to explore data extracted from 13.7 million volumes from the HathiTrust Digital Library.

A look at how authors are choosing to license their preprints in bioRxiv.

Flowingdata has some great guides on visualization. For starters you can peruse the guide on tips for learning to code for visualization or this one on misconceptions about visualization.

 

Allan Barclay

The Open Research Funders Group was announced this month.