Digital Media Commons (DMC): Schedule and registration

• Audio/video – recording with DMC equipment and editing in Audacity, GarageBand, iMovie, and Premiere
• Photography – covering camera, lens, lighting, and touching up in Lightroom
• Web and graphics – creating personal websites with CampusPress, academic posters in PowerPoint, newsletters in InDesign, photo collages in Photoshop, and vector logos and scientific illustrations in Illustrator
• 3D modeling and animation – authoring 3D models and rendering animated research videos in Blender

• Research – managing reference data with Zotero and analyzing data with Tableau

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/Data Center: Schedule and registration

• Getting started with ArcGIS 
• Bringing data into ArcGIS 
• Manipulating data in ArcGIS  
• Spatial statistics in ArcGIS 
• Census data 

Kelley Center for Government Information 

• Government Information for Research and More: Schedule and registration 

  • Civic engagement related training
  • Overview of U.S. government publications, essential resources, discovery tools, and key search strategies
  • Exploring open government data resources using open data software
  • Searching and finding various types of government information (e.g. laws, rules, regulations)

• Patents and Trademarks Searching: Schedule and registration 

• Intellectual property basics, focused on U.S. law
• Finding trademarks and using the USPTO’s database search tools
• Performing comprehensive patent searches using patent office databases

Library Publishing Services: Schedule and registration

• Library publishing virtual coffee chats
• Understanding open access
• Prevent link rot with Perma.cc

Research Data Services (RDS): Schedule and registration

• Data management – best practices for effective and secure data management
• Data analysis and visualization – programming in R, Python, SQL, and Docker

• Research computing – data storage and transfer, virtual machines, supercomputers, and more!

Beginning January 25, 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require a Data Management and Sharing (DMS) plan for all funding submissions.  To learn more about what this entails for NIH-funded research, join Fondren’s Research Data Services team for a free webinar on November 2, 2022, at 12-1 pm.

Are you interested in making your dataset publicly available? Does your publisher or funder require deposit of data in a repository? Fondren Library can help you find the right repository for your research data!

You have many repository options. Contact Research Data Services if you’d like help selecting a repository or depositing your data in the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive.

What to look for in a repository

• Follows FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable)
• Adheres to funder or publisher requirements (e.g., NSF guidelines, NIH guidelines))
• Allows you to use the metadata that best fits your needs and meets disciplinary best practices
• Accommodates the size and structure of your data

Find and evaluate repositories

• Re3data
• Assessing General Data Repositories [Fondren Library]
• NIH “Selecting a Data Repository”
• Nature’s Recommended Data Repositories
• PLOS Recommended Repositories

Rice Digital Scholarship Archive

Fondren Library supports the publication of datasets created by members of the Rice community via the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (RDSA). A unique Rice Research Data collection accommodates data-specific metadata needs. DOIs are assigned to datasets to facilitate public discovery and citation.

Features include:

• Free to members of the Rice community
• DOI assignment
• Preservation of  data using best practices such as file integrity checks and redundant, geographically distributed storage.
• Library support with data description and management

Learn more about sharing data via the RDSA on the library’s website.

Submit your data to the RDSA using this webform.

Questions? Contact researchdata@rice.edu

Adapted from Princeton Research Data Service’s “Where and how can I publish my dataset?”

On September 28, Fondren Library Digital Scholarship Services hosted a session on “Understanding the New OSTP Memo on Access to Federally Funded Research.”

In August, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a memorandum on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research that will make taxpayer-funded research immediately available for the public to freely access and fully use. This new guidance calls on all federal agencies to generate policies that eliminate the current 12-month waiting period for access to the outputs of federally funded research, including articles and data.

This brief session provided an overview of the memo and implications for researchers. The slides can be viewed here.

At the end of the presentation, we shared some things researchers (and those who support them) can do to start preparing for funder policies, including:

• Monitor funding agency developments
  • Subscribe to listservs, social media, agency blogs, etc.
  • Subscribe to Fondren Digital Scholarship Services blog
• Begin to think about data management and sharing
  • Research Data Services
  • Register for November 2 webinar: Getting Ready for the New NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy
• Make a plan for managing publications
  • Understand existing funder public access policies (e.g., NIH, NSF)
  • Read publishing agreements to ensure funding compliance
  • Keep track of article versions, especially when you have co-authors

A copy of the handout provided to participants can be found here (Rice login required).

Fondren Library will continue to monitor funding agency policy development as it evaluates existing resources and services.

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique identifier that you can use to enable your research data to be cited just like bibliographic references or other scholarly resources.

Many funding agencies (e.g., NIH) and publishers (e.g., Nature) direct researchers to make data available in repositories that support assignment of persistent identifiers such as DOIs. In addition, a DOI can help research data to meet FAIR principles.

Most data repositories will assign a DOI to your dataset upon deposit. You have many repository options. Contact Research Data Services if you’d like help selecting a repository or depositing your data in the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive.

What to look for in a repository

• Confirm that the repository will assign a DOI upon deposit
• Follows FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable)
• Adheres to funder or publisher requirements (e.g., NSF guidelines, NIH guidelines))
• Allows you to use the metadata that best fits your needs and meets disciplinary best practices
• Accommodates the size and structure of your data

Find and evaluate repositories

• Re3data
• Assessing General Data Repositories [Fondren Library]
• NIH “Selecting a Data Repository”
• Nature’s Recommended Data Repositories
• PLOS Recommended Repositories

Rice Digital Scholarship Archive

Fondren Library supports the publication of datasets created by members of the Rice community via the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (RDSA). A unique Rice Research Data collection accommodates data-specific metadata needs. DOIs are assigned to datasets to facilitate public discovery and citation.

Features include:

• Free to members of the Rice community
• DOI assignment
• Preservation of  data using best practices such as file integrity checks and redundant, geographically distributed storage.
• Library support with data description and management

Learn more about sharing data via the RDSA on the library’s website.

Submit your data to the RDSA using this webform.

Adapted from Princeton Research Data Service’s “Where and how can I publish my dataset?”

On August 25, 2022, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a memorandum on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research that will make taxpayer-funded research immediately available for the public to freely access and fully use. This new guidance calls on all federal agencies to generate policies that eliminate the current 12-month waiting period for access to the outputs of federally funded research, including articles and data. 

The memorandum, issued by Dr. Alondra Nelson, underscores the critical role that openness plays in ensuring scientific research integrity, providing important new guidance for the use of digital personal identifiers and robust metadata accompanying articles and datasets. It also calls on agencies to ensure that their policies are updated to ensure equity in both the publishing of and access to the record of science – particularly for traditionally underserved communities, and researchers who are early in their careers.  [SPARC (2022), “2022 Updated OSTP Policy Guidance,” licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]

Fondren Digital Scholarship Services is closely monitoring developments and is exploring how the library can support Rice researchers. We believe that this new guidance compliments the library’s mission and that work currently being done in Research Data Services and Fondren Library Publishing Services can be leveraged to help researchers comply with new funder policies.

This free workshop series sponsored by Fondren Library and the Center for Research Computing provides hands-on training on the basics of organizing, documenting, analyzing, and visualizing your data.

All Fall 2022 courses will be online in Zoom unless noted otherwise.

Courses include:

• Introduction to data analysis in R
• Introduction to SQL
• Remote access to Research Computing resources
• Intermediate data transformation and visualization in R
• Research data management
• Interactive data visualization with Plotly
• Build an app in a container, and deploy it
• Getting ready for the new NIH Data Management and Sharing policy
• VRDE system for secure data
• Introduction to Python
• Excel Pivot Tables

Course descriptions and registration can be found here.

August 9-10, 2022; 9 am – 5 pm CT; Rayzor 119

Develop your Python, Git, and Unix skills in a free workshop taught by experienced instructors from the Carpentries and Rice. The workshop will combine short tutorials and hands-on practical exercises.  You don’t need to have any previous knowledge.

Please see the workshop website for the syllabus and more information.

Registration:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/387657382667

Registration is limited to the first 30. Only Rice faculty, students, and staff may register.

Questions?  Email cb88@rice.edu

Sponsors: Fondren Library, Center for Research Computing, Ken Kennedy Institute, and the Research Data Services Team

Fondren is excited to join the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC)!

The mission of the LPC is to extend the “impact and sustainability of library publishing and open scholarship by providing a professional forum for developing best practices and shared expertise.”

We’re excited to join the LPC community and further develop our Library Publishing Services. Details about Fondren’s current publishing services can be found on the library website.

Are you looking for openly-licensed content to use in your classroom or for publication? This series will help you find Creative Commons-licensed content. Today, we’ll look at Flickr.

To learn more about Creative Commons licenses, please see this Fondren Library guide.

Features:

• Flickr allows users to make their images available online under a Creative Commons license. The key is filtering them to isolate the Creative Commons-licensed ones.
• The filter sometimes renders incorrect results. Remember to double check the license setting of the image.

Important!

It is important to consider how you want to use any CC material before you begin your search. This is because different CC licenses let you do different things. Knowing what you want to do with the material will help you choose the license that is suitable for your use.

How to find CC licensed content in Flickr

Go to https://www.flickr.com/

Enter keywords in the search box.

On the results page, filter your search by Creative Commons license type. Images can be filtered by permitted use.

Detailed license information can be found in the description below the image.

This post was adapted from:

“Youtube” 2016 by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, licensed under CC BY 4.0