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MSL FINDING DATA Big Data, Little Data: Having it All October 3, 2013 Denise Bennett, Marston Science Library
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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 http://library.ufl.edu/datamgmt
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MSL Choose “idea” from the data life cycle
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MSL Link to Datasets guide
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MSL Datasets guide What do you mean by “data”?
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MSL Strategies for finding datasets
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MSL Finding datasets within journal articles
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MSL Multidisciplinary repositories Let’s start with Dryad
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MSL Repository example: Dryad
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MSL Dryad.org – search results Search for “size,” get 966 datasets
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MSL Dryad.org – search results See major subjects of resulting datasets See journals where articles were published
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MSL Dryad entry See individual files; 17 for this project
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MSL Dryad entry: citation See how to cite the article and the data package
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MSL Dryad dataset: in Excel, ready for re-use
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MSL Back to Multidisciplinary repositories Let’s look at Databib
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MSL Repository example: Databib 603 data repositories total in Databib.
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MSL Databib: search results A search for “climatology” shows 53 groups
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MSL Databib entry See info about the group and a link to its website
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MSL Databib leads to website Data Access links Recent Data Activities noted
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MSL back on the Datasets guide Choose any subject category to see discipline- specific repositories
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MSL Citing datasets See examples and recommended practices
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MSL back to Datasets home Scroll down for Tips & Tricks
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MSL For more info More guides Find YOUR librarian
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