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.
Original Post from Biomedical Library Blog.
Last week we covered setting up citation alerts in Web of Knowledge. Web of Knowledge also allows you to create a search alert to let you know when new articles are published on a specific topic.
To create a search alert, open any Web of Knowledge platform (this example is Web of Science). Enter your search topic, for example graphene supercapacitors.
On the search results page, click Create Alert/RSS at the top of the page. You will need to log into your Thomson Reuters account. Sign up is free.
You will want to create a search name and select the Email Alerts option. You have the option to designate Weekly or Monthly emails. Then click the first Save button.
The confirmation page will also provide a link to a RSS feed. Alerts are active for one year and are renewable.
To cancel the search alert, click My Saved Searches on the Web of Knowledge menu and delete the search.
Access to these resources can be found on any UCLA campus computer or, for UCLA users only, off-campus access through BruinOnline Proxy Server or the UCLA VPN Client. If you would like more help with the library resources or about research questions in general, please contact a Science and Engineering Librarian.
Citation alerts can be an important tool in tracking the growth of research related to an article. Web of Knowledge has a citation alert feature that can send you an email every time the article is cited by a new article.
To create a citation alert, search any Web of Knowledge database for the article you want to create an alert for (this example is Web of Science) and choose Create Citation Alert on the right side.
If you are not currently signed in, you will need to login to your Thomson Reuters account. Sign up is free.
Citation alerts are active for one year and are renewable. You are also given the link to a RSS feed for your citation alert.
To cancel your citation alert, choose My Citation Alerts and click Modify Settings.
Access to these resources can be found on any UCLA campus computer or, for UCLA users only, off-campus access through BruinOnline Proxy Server or the UCLA VPN Client. If you would like more help with the library resources or about research questions in general, please contact a Science and Engineering Librarian.
UCLA Library’s Course Reserves is a great way to allow students to check out books held in reserve at the libraries, link to ebooks and other electronic resources, and link to related class materials like the course website. Here’s how to get started:
Go to the UCLA Library Catalog.
Instead of using “Basic Search” to manually search for a textbook, click on the “Course Reserves” tab.
Find your course materials by choosing your instructor, department, or course.
Click on the right item you are looking for. Next to “Location,” find the “Temporarily Shelved” location to know which library the reserve book is located.
Items that are available electronically will have a link.
Make sure you have the call number when you are checking out a book at the circulation desk. Course reserves are available for 2-hour periods. It is optional for professors to have items on reserve; some may want students to have personal copies of a textbook or simple forgot to put something on reserve. If there is an item that you would like to be put on reserve, you can ask your professor or TA to fill out this form. Find out more about UCLA Course Reserves.
There are also monetary incentives for professors to use low-cost or free alternatives to course materials including textbooks. Find out more about the ULCA Library Affordable Course Materials Initiative.
If you would like more help with the library resources or have research questions in general, please contact a Science and Engineering Librarian.
Photograph Credit: ajalfaro
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.
Wednesday, April 24th
Noon to 1 p.m
Biomed Library Classroom
(event now full – sign up for waitlist)
AND
Tuesday, April 30th
Noon to 1pm
Biomed Library Classroom (reserve your space)
Seating is limited; please RSVP. Questions? Email biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu for more information!
Image source: Data Life Cycle. DDI Structural Reform Group. “DDI Version 3.0 Conceptual Model.” DDI Alliance. 2004.
Have an iPad? Help the Library evaluate a new research tool that is being considered for possible subscription.
The libraries of the University of California are running a trial of a new technology called BrowZine, a tablet application that allows you to browse, read and monitor many of the library’s journals, all from your iPad. To facilitate your research, articles found in BrowZine can easily be sent to Zotero, Dropbox or several other services to help keep all of your information together in one place.
To learn more, please take a look at this short (two minute) video:
Introduction to BrowZine from Third Iron on Vimeo.
For the trial, search for “BrowZine” in the App Store and download the app for free; when initially launching BrowZine, select your campus from the drop down list.
This trial ends April 30, 2013.
We would appreciate your feedback while we consider subscribing to this service. After trying BrowZine, please fill out this short survey.
If you have any problems or questions, please contact us via our Support/Troubleshooting form linked from http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/evaluation/browzine.html.
Original post from the California Digital Library News blog.
Access databases, articles, and ebooks from home.. or anywhere!
The library subscribes to many online books, journals, and databases. These resources are accessible from any computer on campus. However, to access these sites from off-campus, you must set up either the Bruin OnLine Proxy Server (a simple setting in your browser) or the UCLA VPN Client (a program you install on your computer).
Bruin OnLine Proxy Server
What is a proxy server? A proxy server forwards requests between a web browser and the requested website. When requests for restricted resources access the BOL proxy server, it will appear to originate from the UCLA campus. The BOL proxy server currently provides access to IP restricted websites.
To set up the proxy server, click on the link above and follow the directions to configure the web browser(s) you use. With the proxy server, you will have to logon with your UCLA logon ID and password when you access resources through the library website.
UCLA VPN Client
An alternative to the proxy server is Virtual Private Networking (VPN). The Bruin OnLine VPN service must be downloaded to your computer, but after downloaded you will not need to log in every time you access licensed library resources off-campus.
All off-campus access to licensed library resources is restricted to current UCLA students, faculty, and staff.
For help with setting up either the proxy server or the VPN client, please contact the Bruin OnLine (BOL) help desk at 310.267.4357.
For help with library resources, contact a science and engineering librarian.
Photo credit: The Telegraph
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.
The UCLA Library Simul8 Group has released a set of apps that work across web, tablet and mobile devices. These apps are still in beta release but provide new interactions with our extensive article databases, and add to the already existing iOS/Android mobile offerings.
The Simul8 Group is supported by the Arcadia Fund.
Article Search beta
A simple and fast article search for your tablet and mobile device
* Search & view abstracts and articles
* Turns your iPad or Android tablet into an article e-reader
Stashd beta
  
Helps store and organize research links/clippings on the web. Login with your UCLA ID
* Find useful research online, then click bookmarklet in browser toolbar to save
* Save online content, label, add notes, share links on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+
To view in web or tablet browser:
http://www.library.ucla.edu/search/library-apps
To view on mobile device:
http://m.library.ucla.edu/
Original blog post from the UCLA University Librarian Blog
This new initiative incentivizes instructors to use low-cost or free alternatives to expensive course materials; these can include open-access scholarly resources, Library-licensed and owned resources, and learning objects and texts that faculty create themselves. A total of $10,000 will be offered for the 2013-14 academic year: five awards of $1,000 each for instructors teaching courses with enrollments of fewer than two hundred students and two awards of $2,500 each for instructors teaching courses with enrollment of more than two hundred students.
These modest yet significant sums are meant to offer an incentive for the time it will take instructors to identify new resources, adjust syllabi, and modify assignments and can also be used to cover any actual expenses incurred by the instructor. Each applicant must be the instructor of record, and the courses must be for enrolled students (i.e., not UCLA Extension courses); the courses can be at the undergraduate or graduate level.
The initiative has been endorsed by the Office of the UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost and the UCLA Academic Senate.
Application Process
Applications are now being accepted for the 2013-14 academic year. The due date for applications for courses to be taught in the fall quarter is Friday, April 26.
Further information on this initiative is available online. If you have questions, please email or call 310.825.6925.
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