Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) at Fondren Library fosters the effective, creative use of digital technology in research, learning, and scholarly communication by providing infrastructure, consulting, and training. Register now for our Spring short courses, which are free and open to Rice students, faculty, staff, and eligible Friends of Fondren unless otherwise noted. For more information, visit DSS Website: http://library.rice.edu/dss. If our existing courses do not meet your needs, please contact the department for a custom training. Digital Media Commons (DMC): Schedule and registration ..read more

Beginning January 25, 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require a Data Management and Sharing (DMS) plan for all funding submissions.  To learn more about what this entails for NIH-funded research, join Fondren’s Research Data Services team for a free webinar on November 2, 2022, at 12-1 pm. This virtual session will highlight key elements of the policy and provide an overview of resources to help you develop a DMS plan.  Please register by 11/1/22 to receive the webinar Zoom link. Additional information can be found on Fondren’s NIH DMS Plan Libguide ..read more

Are you interested in making your dataset publicly available? Does your publisher or funder require deposit of data in a repository? Fondren Library can help you find the right repository for your research data! You have many repository options. Contact Research Data Services if you’d like help selecting a repository or depositing your data in the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive. What to look for in a repository Follows FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) Adheres to funder or publisher requirements (e.g., NSF guidelines, NIH guidelines)) Allows you to use the ..read more

On September 28, Fondren Library Digital Scholarship Services hosted a session on “Understanding the New OSTP Memo on Access to Federally Funded Research.” In August, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a memorandum on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research that will make taxpayer-funded research immediately available for the public to freely access and fully use. This new guidance calls on all federal agencies to generate policies that eliminate the current 12-month waiting period for access to the outputs of federally f ..read more

A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a unique identifier that you can use to enable your research data to be cited just like bibliographic references or other scholarly resources. Many funding agencies (e.g., NIH) and publishers (e.g., Nature) direct researchers to make data available in repositories that support assignment of persistent identifiers such as DOIs. In addition, a DOI can help research data to meet FAIR principles. Most data repositories will assign a DOI to your dataset upon deposit. You have many repository options. Contact Research Data Services if you’d like help selecting a ..read more

  This free workshop series sponsored by Fondren Library and the Center for Research Computing provides hands-on training on the basics of organizing, documenting, analyzing, and visualizing your data. All Fall 2022 courses will be online in Zoom unless noted otherwise. Courses include: Introduction to data analysis in R Introduction to SQL Remote access to Research Computing resources Intermediate data transformation and visualization in R Research data management Interactive data visualization with Plotly Build an app in a container, and deploy it Getting ready for the new NIH Data Ma ..read more

August 9-10, 2022; 9 am – 5 pm CT; Rayzor 119 Develop your Python, Git, and Unix skills in a free workshop taught by experienced instructors from the Carpentries and Rice. The workshop will combine short tutorials and hands-on practical exercises.  You don’t need to have any previous knowledge. Please see the workshop website for the syllabus and more information. Registration:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/387657382667 Registration is limited to the first 30. Only Rice faculty, students, and staff may register. Questions?  Email cb88@rice.edu ..read more

Fondren is excited to join the Library Publishing Coalition (LPC)! The mission of the LPC is to extend the “impact and sustainability of library publishing and open scholarship by providing a professional forum for developing best practices and shared expertise.” We’re excited to join the LPC community and further develop our Library Publishing Services. Details about Fondren’s current publishing services can be found on the library website ..read more

Are you looking for openly-licensed content to use in your classroom or for publication? This series will help you find Creative Commons-licensed content. Today, we’ll look at Flickr. To learn more about Creative Commons licenses, please see this Fondren Library guide. Features: Flickr allows users to make their images available online under a Creative Commons license. The key is filtering them to isolate the Creative Commons-licensed ones. The filter sometimes renders incorrect results. Remember to double check the license setting of the image. Important! It is important to consider how you ..read more

  This free workshop series sponsored by Fondren Library and the Center for Research Computing provides hands-on training on the basics of organizing, documenting, analyzing, and visualizing your data. All Spring 2022 courses will be online. Courses include: Introduction to R Build an App in a Container and Deploy It Introduction to Python Rice VM’s and Research Storage Introduction to SQL Remote Access to Research Computing Resources Interactive Data Visualization with Plotly Introduction to Open Data Introduction to Pandas Excel Pivot Tables Course descriptions and registration can b ..read more