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International Love Data Week: Let me count the ways!

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Do you love data? Are you interested in learning more about how proper data handling can enhance your research?

Organizations around the world are offering a number of events to help celebrate International Love Data Week, February 13-17, 2023.

ICPSR has a robust listing of events and workshops to help you sharpen your skills: ICPSR List of Events.

The Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) is also hosting daily scheduled events: NNLM Love Data Week Schedule.

Kick-off of Love Data Week, February 13, also coincides with the MSK Library’s monthly Research Data Management: Best Practices class. Join us for a discussion of the FAIR principles and practical steps you can take every day to develop healthy data habits: Class Sign-up.

For many researchers, data management has taken on a special meaning as NIH has rolled out its new Data Management and Sharing Policy (January 25, 2023), which requires that all NIH grant applicants include a Data Management Plan with their submission. The MSK Library has been collaborating with administrative offices, grant editors, and researchers across the organization to provide guidance, develop tools, and centralize information through a new online resource, our NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy LibGuide.

If you have any questions about research data or want to chat with someone who not only counts the ways he loves data but is also likely to perform a Chi-Squared analysis on the ways he loves data, please reach out to Anthony Dellureficio, Associate Librarian for Data Management Services.

*NEW FEATURE* MSK Data Catalog and Synapse – Stronger Together 

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Explore the many-to-many relationship between MSK publications and datasets with the launch of this new enhancement! 

Synapse, our database of MSK authors and their publications, will now display a dynamically generated “Related Datasets” button at the top of publication records if that work has associated datasets cataloged in the MSK Data Catalog. 

 

Likewise, any record in the MSK Data Catalog which supports publications will have links to those publications in Synapse.  

As an example of the value added by this integration:

  • Consider this dataset record which identifies 3 associated publications.
  • Following the link to the first publication you find a Synapse record with a “Related Datasets” button. 
  • Clicking the “Related Datasets” button searches the Data Catalog to discover 6 datasets are in support of this publication.

By exposing these relationships, we hope to highlight the value of data as a research output and emphasize a broader perspective on MSK research. 

If you would like to see your datasets included in the MSK Data Catalog or have any questions about how the MSK Library is contributing to the development of data as a component of Scholarly Communication, please Ask Us! 

New MSK Resource – Data Policy Finder: Search. Verify. Plan.

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Getting ready to publish your research? Still in the early stages of research but already thinking about where you will publish? About to undertake research and thinking ahead?

Navigating publication requirements for data, code, and other supporting research output can be tricky, but the Library is here to help!

The MSK Library has launched a new homegrown resource, the Data Policy Finder.

The Data Policy Finder is a searchable database containing information and links for data, code, and materials policies. Search for data sharing and management policies by publisher or publication. Library staff review the policies and curate the database with links, direct quotes from the relevant sections of the policies, and notes to help you search, verify, and plan for your publication data requirements.

For any questions regarding this new resource or to schedule a demo, please reach out to Anthony Dellureficio, Associate Librarian, Research Data Management.