Supporting your data needs from the classroom to the lab
Data is ubiquitous in research and we are here to help you. Our Research Data Services Team is a group of multi-disciplinary librarians available to offer consultations and trainings for students, faculty and researchers throughout the course of their research projects, from planning to sharing data with the public.
Currently, we are offering advice in the following topics, but we will be expanding our services.
Our Team is able to consult and review your research plan to make sure your data will have good data management practices throughout your project. We can also offer advise to craft your data management plan.
We are knowledgeable in all disciplines, and we can point you to the right resources and data archives for your research project. We can also assist you with best practices for data collection.
We can help you with your collected data. We can advise you with techniques for cleaning and curating your data, so it is ready for analyses.
Our team can advise you on different ways that you can analyze your data, using spreadsheets and reproducible analyses with R software. We can also suggest different ways to visualize your data.
We can share with you the best practices to store your data for future use. We can help you craft metadata and digital object identifiers (DOIs) for your work.
Our team can also advise on how to share your data: anonymize subject data, evaluate copyright elements of your data, improve discoverability of your work. We can also suggest data archives for your work.
We can offer personalized advice, consultations and trainings for individuals and groups across campus. Students: we cannot do homework, projects, or analyses for you since these are part of your learning process, but we aim to provide you with the tools and support so you can succeed in your projects. Faculty and researchers: we are open to provide support in your projects and grants, please reach out to us with any ideas for collaboration.
Walk-in help is located at the GIS and Data Depot (basement level of DeLaMare Library)
We have available different guides for Data Management.
Our team is available for one-on-one or small group consultations.
We offer regular workshops for diverse aspects of Data Services. Faculty and staff can also request individual workshops for their courses.
Share your research data with Dryad or get feedback on your statistical analysis and experimental setup from our thinktank, StatsChats.
If you don’t know where to start on your research & data project, contact our general team email.
Chrissy and Carlos are ready to help with your GIS needs.
Teresa and Elena are ready to help with data management plan, finding data collections, creating metadata, copyrights, and DOIs, data archives.
Carlos is ready to help with you with data processing, analysis, and visualization, along with reproducible analyses. Ashley can help with Social Sciences data processing and analysis, as well as statistics in general
Elena is ready to help you find, code, appraise, and synthesize all of the previous research - including data - on your question, as well as to provide guidance on meta-analysis projects.
Challen is ready to help with all of your metadata needs.
Faculty, we teach sessions on data literacy that can be incorporated into your class, please contact us to get started.
Here is a list of data related workshops that our Data Services Team can provide, additional workshops will be added gradually:
In addition, the Libraries also make a variety of workshops available for you.
We offer two spaces where you can work on your research data projects: DataWorks North (located in the basement of the Knowledge Center) and the DataWorks South (our main location, in the first floor of the DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library). Each of these hubs is equipped with 18 computers with dual monitors and access to a variety of data processing software such GIS, Statistics, CAD, Math, R, Python & more.
The University Libraries partner with other units on campus to provide support to your research and data needs.
The University of Nevada, Reno's user-driven, high performance computing cluster for intensive data analyses.
The Center offers peer-to-peer tutoring service for student looking for math and statistics help.
The Center specializes in survey data collection, program evaluation, and statistical analysis.
The Libraries are busy getting the University's new institutional repository ready to fully launch this coming fall. Named ScholarWolf, it will combine functions from the previous system with a more modern interface and upgraded software.