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[A Monday afternoon editorial.] Sometime within the past couple of months, the National Institutes of Health decided to start enforcing the requirements of its public access mandate that went into effect in April of 2008. On the one hand, it was nice of NIH to give its funded researchers a year or two or […]
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Submitted by guest contributor Eva Rios-Alvarado, MS, MSLIS candidate at Simmons College. What is Science Boot Camp for librarians? The title is a bit nuanced, but true to what you might think it would be and MORE! This subject-intensive, three … Continue reading →
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Save the Date and Call for Proposals! The seventeenth annual October Dartmouth Library conference, Making Connections and Cultivating Community, will be held on October 18. This year’s conference will focus on the collaborative role that academic libraries play in their … Continue reading →
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The Harvard University Library in collaboration with its Office of the Provost, Harvard’s IQSS (Institute for Qualitative Social Science) Dataverse Network, and Harvard University Information Technology, is launching a collaborative aimed at producing data lifecycle services for Harvard researchers. See … Continue reading →
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Registration is still open for the Open Repository 2013 conference and workshops that will be held July 8-12 in beautiful Charlottestown, Prince Edward Island. Of particular interest to data and IR librarians is the OR13 sessions, “Institutional Repositories Dealing with … Continue reading →
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The Databrary project at New York University has an opening for a Data Curator, an information specialist who will work with researchers in developmental science to acquire and organize the content of the Databrary digital library. For further details see … Continue reading →
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Check out this interesting Scientific American blog commentary, Research Data Management for Dummies, by Mark Hahnel, founder of Figshare, about lessons learned from research data mismanagement (e.g. lost laptop, nebulous file names), and how scientific researchers are adapting online lab … Continue reading →
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Submitted by guest contributor Elizabeth Schneider, Director of the Treadwell Library, Massachusetts General Hospital. During the last week, I was presented with an opportunity to think about data of all sizes that are being generated and managed at Massachusetts General … Continue reading →
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I know I’ve already posted about the changes at the NRC, but this recent David Suzuki article frames the issue so perfectly that I thought I’d post about it again. The article is called National Research Council’s new focus ignores how science works. The core issue is that recently the Canadian Federal Government’s National Research…
