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Describing and Organizing Your Data: a Workshop

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013

A recent study in PLOS ONE showed that sharing your research data can lead to about a 70% increase in citations for your article!  Making your data available is a great way to advance knowledge, but your data is no good to anyone if it doesn’t come with contextualizing information that will help others (and you!) make sense of it.  Plus, if you’re submitting a data management plan to a funder, you’re required to specify how you’ll describe your data.

Join us to find out more about describing your data to make it easier for you to analyze and others to find and understand.  In this hour-long workshop, you’ll learn how to:

  • find and use the metadata standards that apply to your field of study
  • adapt or create a metadata schema to describe your unique data
  • use taxonomies, ontologies, and controlled vocabularies to ensure consistency in your description so your work will be easier to find

Class meets in UCLA Biomedical Library Classroom, May 22, 2013, 12-1 pm.  Please register to reserve your space.

This workshop is the part of the Biomedical Library’s Data Wednesdays series.  Join us the fourth Wednesday of every month to learn about a topic related to research data management.

Questions?  Email biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu for more information.

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NIH Public Access Policy

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that it would delay processing of renewals to PIs who are not in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy beginning July 1, 2013.  Are you in compliance?  Make sure your funding isn’t at risk, and learn more about how to ensure that you comply with the Policy. We’ll discuss:

  • submission methods and how to be sure your article has successfully been submitted to PubMed Central
  • how to check whether you are in compliance with the Policy
  • citing your compliant articles in grant applications and progress reports
  • your questions about the Policy and how to comply.

Class meets in UCLA Biomedical Library Classroom, May 16, 2013, 11 a.m.-noon.  Please register to reserve your space.

Questions?  Email biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu for more information.

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CTSI Special Event – Biomedical Informatics, Data Standards and Practice tools

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

The CTSI Training Program in Translational Science announces the 2013 Clinical Research Development Seminar Modules on Biomedical Informatics, Data Standards and Practical Tools.  This module will familiarize participants with the basic principles of biomedical informatics demonstrated by ongoing projects and services across the CTSI sites. Participants will be exposed to CTSI-specific tools and other popular applications that facilitate the management and analysis of clinical and experimental data.

Space is limited – please RSVP. Email your name, primary degree and department to training@ctsi.ucla.edu and include the days/times/location you plan to attend.

This module is presented at UCLA but is also available via live videoconference with advance request to our partner sites at Harbor-UCLA, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Charles R. Drew University. Email for details.

For more information: http://www.ctsi.ucla.edu/education/training/tr1-curriculum

Email: training@ctsi.ucla.edu

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SPECIAL EVENT: Building a Foundation in Research at UCLA

Monday, April 22nd, 2013

Friday, May 10, 2013

9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

This half-day workshop will provide faculty, researchers, staff, postdocs, and graduate students with an overview of some of the many resources available to the UCLA research community. Presentations include:

  • Finding Funding Opportunities
  • Working with Foundations and Corporate Giving
  • Industry Sponsored Research
  • Research and Collaboration Tools
  • Resources available from UCLA CTSI
  • Writing and Rewriting NIH Proposals

The workshop is free and light refreshments will be provided. Reservation required.  Click here for more information and to RSVP.

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UPDATE: Due to its popularity, we will now be offering a second session of this course! Both will be held in the UCLA Biomedical Library Classroom

Thursday, April 18th, 2013

Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 12 -1pm (event full – sign up for waitlist)

Tuesday, April 30, 2-3 pm (reserve your space)

If you’re not able to attend either session, check out our Data Wednesdays page after the session to get slides, video, handouts, and other materials.

You’ve thought carefully about how you’ll conduct your research.  You’ve spent hours in the lab or the field gathering your data.  But have you thought about how to best manage that data to make analysis easier, ensure that you don’t lose the results of all your hard work, and preserve your data for the future?  A data management plan (DMP) addresses these questions and more to help you get the most out of your data.  Plus, many grant funders, including the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, require that grant proposals include DMPs.

Whether you’re writing a formal DMP to meet a funder requirement or you just want to think ahead about how to best manage your data, this workshop will walk you through the steps to writing a successful data management plan.  We’ll discuss how to use the DMPTool, a free, interactive website for writing DMPs, and cover resources to help you answer the questions you’ll need to think about in writing your DMP.

This workshop is the first in the Biomedical Library’s new Data Wednesdays series!  Join us the fourth Wednesday of every month to learn about a topic related to research data management.

Questions?  Email biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu for more information!

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Writing a Successful Data Management Plan: an Upcoming Workshop

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

You’ve thought carefully about how you’ll conduct your research.  You’ve spent hours in the lab or the field gathering your data.  But have you thought about how to best manage that data to make analysis easier, ensure that you don’t lose the results of all your hard work, and preserve your data for the future?  A data management plan (DMP) addresses these questions and more to help you get the most out of your data.  Plus, many grant funders, including the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, require that grant proposals include DMPs.

Whether you’re writing a formal DMP to meet a funder requirement or you just want to think ahead about how to best manage your data, this workshop will walk you through the steps to writing a successful data management plan.  We’ll discuss how to use the DMPTool, a free, interactive website for writing DMPs, and cover resources to help you answer the questions you’ll need to think about in writing your DMP.

This workshop is the first in the Biomedical Library’s new Data Wednesdays series!  Join us the fourth Wednesday of every month to learn about a topic related to research data management.

Join us on Wednesday, April 24th, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Biomed Library Classroom. Seating is limited; please RSVP at http://ucladmp.eventbrite.com.  Questions?  Email biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu for more information!

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Data 101: Introduction to Research Data Management 4/5 @12pm

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

Drowning in data? Need to write a data management plan? Responsible for your lab’s research data? The Library can help!

Attend our upcoming workshop Data 101: Introduction to Research Data Management to learn how to manage your research data more effectively.  The workshop will be held at the Science and Engineering Library/Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Collection (8270 Boelter Hall) on Friday, April 5th at 12pm.  RSVP to Tony Aponte at tjaponte@library.ucla.edu.

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Take the Library’s Survey on Data Management for a Chance to Win a $20 Target Gift Card!

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

The Biomedical Library would like your feedback about research data management.  The Library is planning a series of hour-long instructional classes on data management. To ensure that the classes meet the needs of UCLA faculty, students, staff, and researchers, we would like to hear from you about what tools and resources you’d like to learn more about and how you currently organize your research data. Please fill out our survey and help inform the development of the courses.  The survey should take no more than 10 minutes of your time, and all responses will be anonymous.

The first 24 participants to complete the survey will win a $20 Target gift card. You must be a current UCLA student, staff, or faculty member to be eligible to receive a gift card.

In addition to helping to shape the course offerings, survey results will be used for research purposes. Should you have any concerns or questions, please contact Lisa Federer at lmfederer@library.ucla.edu or (310) 794-2030.

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Data 101: An Introduction to Research Data Management / a Biomedical Library Workshop

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Wednesday, October 31, 12-1 p.m., Biomedical Library 4th Floor Classroom

If you conduct research in the sciences, you are probably collecting data of some sort, but have you thought about how you should be organizing, preserving, and managing that data?  With many funders now mandating data management plans and data sharing, researchers need to know how to deal with their data now more than ever.

Please join us to learn how to use and manage your data more effectively in this hands-on workshop.  You’ll learn how to use the web-based DMP Tool to create a data management plan that meets funder requirements, what metadata standards are and why you should use them, best practices for organizing your data, and more.

This workshop is open to UCLA students, staff, and faculty.  Seating is limited; please RSVP at biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu.  Questions?  Please contact Lisa Federer.

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The Biomedical Library Needs Your Help!

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

The Biomedical Library is offering series of hour-long instructional classes on data management beginning in Fall 2012. To ensure that the classes meet the needs of UCLA faculty, students, and researchers, we would like to get feedback from you regarding what materials you would find most useful for carrying out effective data management. Please fill out our survey and help inform the development of the courses.

In addition to helping to shape the course offerings, the survey results will also be used for research purposes. Should you have any concerns or questions, please contact Lisa Federer at lmfederer@library.ucla.edu or (310) 794-2030.

The survey should take no more than 10 minutes of your time. Thank you for participating!

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