By Erin Carrillo, Information Services Librarian, Steenbock Library In November, RDS held a two day data management workshop for graduate student researchers. Participants were from several departments across campus, including Limnology, Entomology, Forest and Wildlife …
Erin Carrillo
DMPTool Unavailable May 28
As current users of DMPTool may have heard, DMPTool will be upgraded to a new and improved version on May 29th. This new version will give users increased functionality, such as the ability to add …
PLOS’s Revised Data Policy
In order to promote data sharing and use, PLOS has revised its Data Policy, effective March 1, 2014. All published articles will be required to include a Data Availability Statement, describing how authors will maintain …
Survey: What do you want in a data publication?
The California Digital Library (CDL) is conducting a survey to better understand researcher practices and perceptions around data publication. Their aim is to learn what a “data publication” should look like: what should accompany a dataset …
Got Box?
UW-Madison now provides 50 GB of free online storage to students, faculty, and staff through Box, an online storage and collaboration tool. Read our previous blog post to learn more about Box’s features, and read …
Case Study: Box
I recently sat down with Breanne Litts, a doctoral candidate in Digital Media, Curriculum & Instruction, who has been using Box for file storage and collaboration for her research on learning in makerspaces. Project needs: The …
Tools: Box
www.box.com What it is Box is a cloud-based file storage, synchronization, and collaboration service. It can be used by groups for storing, creating, editing, and sharing data files, documents, and other digital objects. Cost A …