MSL FINDING DATA Big Data, Little Data: Having it All October 3, 2013 Denise Bennett, Marston Science Library

MSL George A. Smathers Libraries Marston Science Library LOOKING FOR OTHERS’ DATASETS? * To reuse * To serve as model for your data

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MSL Choose “idea” from the data life cycle

MSL Link to Datasets guide

MSL Datasets guide What do you mean by “data”?

MSL Strategies for finding datasets

MSL Finding datasets within journal articles

MSL Multidisciplinary repositories Let’s start with Dryad

MSL Repository example: Dryad

MSL Dryad.org – search results Search for “size,” get 966 datasets

MSL Dryad.org – search results See major subjects of resulting datasets See journals where articles were published

MSL Dryad entry See individual files; 17 for this project

MSL Dryad entry: citation See how to cite the article and the data package

MSL Dryad dataset: in Excel, ready for re-use

MSL Back to Multidisciplinary repositories Let’s look at Databib

MSL Repository example: Databib 603 data repositories total in Databib.

MSL Databib: search results A search for “climatology” shows 53 groups

MSL Databib entry See info about the group and a link to its website

MSL Databib leads to website Data Access links Recent Data Activities noted

MSL back on the Datasets guide Choose any subject category to see discipline- specific repositories

MSL Citing datasets See examples and recommended practices

MSL back to Datasets home Scroll down for Tips & Tricks

MSL For more info More guides Find YOUR librarian