Andrew Creamer, Scientific Data Management Specialist

This semester consider utilizing Brown University Library’s researcher support services related to managing, publishing, and sharing your research data.

1. Writing Data Management and Sharing Plans: The Library offers a service to assist you with the writing of a data management and/or data sharing plan required by public and private research funders. Examples of funders with new data management and/or data sharing policies starting in 2015 include the Department of Energy’s data management plan policy; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’sopen access policy; and the National Institutes of Health’s Genomic Data Sharing Plan Policy.

2. Publishers Public Data Access/Data Availability Compliance: The Library can help you deposit the data underlying your publications in a data repository such as the Brown Digital Repository (BDR), and we can provide you with a permanent link for your data, a digital object identifier (DOI), that you can use for citing your data sets and their locations in your publications, on your website, and on your CV. This can help you to comply with publisher policies (e.g.,PLOS Data Availability Statement and Public Access Policy) encouraging or requiring authors to archive and provide a link to an associated data set, either for peer reviewers or the public, along with a submitted manuscript.

3. Publishing and Sharing Digital Scholarship: The Library can also help you to deposit and publish all sorts of digital research products. Digital scholarship can include items such as the pre/post-print of an article, research data sets and related data documentation files (metadata, codebooks, data dictionaries, etc. that contextualize data), visualizations, software code libraries, curricula documents, animations, presentations, and research poster files, among others. We will work with you to provide permanent links and documentation to maximize the items’ discovery, utility, and attribution. You can cite these linksin your publications, in presentations, on your website, on your CV, and in grant reports.

Please contact andrew_creamer@brown.edu for more information on these services.