September 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!

Brianna Marshall

UW-Madison paleoanthropologist John Hawks was a key collaborator in the discovery of a new species, Homo naledi. Check out their published findings made available in the open access journal eLife.

UW-Madison biostatistics researcher Karl Broman writes about the difficulty of reproducibility.

A new federal data center opened this month on the UW-Madison campus.

Cameron Cook

Discussions on the need for infrastructure and sustainable models caught my eye during the past month. Peter Wells from Open Data Institute talks about data infrastructure and Cameron Neylon lays down some Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructures.

Rebecca Pool from Research Information discusses the link of increased pressure for access and transparency in relation to institutional repositories and traditional publishing models.

Open Library of the Humanities launched this month!