Planning
- The data education librarian can
- Help you develop data management practices for yourself and your lab. Get in touch to book a consultation.
- Provide feedback on draft data management plans. Simply email your draft DM(S)P along with your grant proposal abstract and the name of the funding agency to reference@wesleyan.edu. Please allow one week for turnaround.
Working storage & backups:
- IT services is the main point of contact for working storage during the active research process and can assist you with determining which university-provided storage solution meets your needs, or if another custom solution is required.
- See a matrix of storage options here
- ITS provides a cloud backup service for faculty and staff computers.
- Your department or division may have shared resources for data storage.
- If your research involves shared instrumentation, staff who manage it are a good point of contact for determining whether and how data acquired using shared resources should be transferred to your individual storage and backed up.
Collection and analysis workflows:
- In addition to providing training and consultation on statistical analysis and visualization, the Quantitative Analysis Center can provide guidance on collecting and organizing your data to facilitate analysis later on. Book a consultation while you are in the planning stages of your research.
- IT services manages the high-performance computing resources at Wesleyan. Contact them here. The Quantitative Analysis Center can assist with some HPC workflows. Professor Kelly Thayer has also recorded a series of introductory lectures to the Wesleyan HPC cluster.
Preservation and sharing:
- Wesleyan has an institutional subscription to Figshare, a generalist data repository, that allows us to provide personalized control of permissions, storage, and more. Check out Publishing Data for help determining the best repository for your data, and contact the library with questions about Figshare.
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