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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 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.

Love Data Year Round

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Love Data Week (February 14-18) is an important reminder of the role that data creation and management play in research. It’s a week where we collectively recognize the value of datasets, code, analytical tools, and all the people who engage with data to provide informational support for science.

Of course, like many of you in the MSK community, the Library loves data all year round! For the past few years, we have been developing a Research Data Management program which has focused on developing services and applications to integrate with researchers’ workflows, lower administrative burdens, and encourage partnerships to support researchers throughout the life of their experiments, from planning to publication, and beyond.

Recently ResearchDataQ, a digital platform from the Association of College and Research Libraries Digital Scholarship Section, published an editorial profile written by the Associate Librarian for Data Management Services and the Library Director at MSK about the origin of our program, our new service and application initiatives, and our roadmap for future development. Read more here.

So, if you are interested in learning more about any of our initiatives, especially if you love data the same way we do, then send us an email, sign up for a class, request some one-on-one time with a data librarian, or ask us to set up a personalized data session for your lab. We hope you’ll take some time to love data, this week and throughout the year!