Happy Open Access Week 2020!

In celebration of Open Access Week 2020, join this conversational panel with members of the Harvard community as we discuss considerations, benefits and challenges of open scholarship. Hear from a variety of domain experts working on projects designed to democratize knowledge and remove barriers to research, teaching and learning.

Panelists:

• Natascha Chtena,...

Happy Open Access Week 2020!

Digital Scholarship Discussion Group lunchtime meet up -- OA edition!

The Long 19th Amendment Project is a research and teaching collaboration spearheaded by the Schlesinger Library at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. This open-access digital portal facilitates interdisciplinary, transnational scholarship and innovative teaching around the history of gender and voting rights in the United States.

Join this...

Turn messy data into tidy data! Much of your time will be spent in this ‘data wrangling’ stage. It’s not the most fun, but it’s necessary and food data organization is the foundation of data analysis. Learn the rules for a 'tidy dataset' in order to clean and prepare your data with examples and tools.

This workshop will build on principles from the June Tidy Data is Good Data seminar, and explore how to turn messy data into tidy data using simple functions in R. Note: You do not have to have...

Scholars communicate their research in various ways. While peer-reviewed journal publications remain the primary outlet for sharing the key results of research projects, there are growing expectations that the underlying data from projects should also be published. Data management practices help researchers take care of their data throughout the entire research process from the planning phase to the end of a project when data might be published within a repository.

This webinar will look at strategies to effectively publish data and provide strategies for “...