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NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Fall 2016 Faculty-Staff Newsletter
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RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT
Need a Plan? We Can Help!
What is a Data Management Plan, or DMP? DMPs are short documents that communicate
your intentions for how you'll manage the data you generate and use, both during your research and at the conclusion of your project.
Why do I need a Data Management Plan? More and more funding agencies require data management plans as part of the grant proposal process. But DMPs are also a great way to think strategically about your research before you start gathering data. The questions posed in a typical DMP prompt you to consider things like the size and nature of the files you'll be collecting during your research, how you'll share with colleagues both during and after the project, and methods to keep your research secure. This will save you time in the long run!
Can you help me create a Data Management Plan? Of course - to get started, check out our data management guide. Northeastern also participates in the DMPTool project, an interactive service that helps you create DMP templates customized for various funding agencies, with helpful 'plain English' prompts and guiding information. DMPTool contains Northeastern-specific information and sample data management plans. For help or questions, contact Jen Ferguson, our Science and Data Services Librarian.
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DATABASE HIGHLIGHTS
NEW PRIMARY SOURCES:
China's Tumultuous Past and America's Colonial Heritage
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“The Foreign Office Files for China collection offers intimate insights into China’s tumultuous twentieth century. It provides users with access to thousands of documents at their fingertips—all searchable and downloadable. The database should thus be an invaluable resource for research projects on modern China, East Asia, and international relations more generally.”
- Phillip Thai, Assistant Professor, Department of History
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"The new Colonial America database from Adam Matthew will provide thousands of documents to faculty and graduate students interested in Colonial America, Early Modern England, and the relationship between the two. The material covers the entire correspondence between the American colonial governments and the Colonial Office in London, and will shed light not only on modes of governance, but also on social movements, economic issues, and political tensions. It is an invaluable resource, and we are lucky to have it."
-
Heather Streets-Salter, Chair, History Department
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HELP YOUR STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT RESEARCH METHODS
Sage Research Methods Can Help.
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Whether you're teaching a research methods course, guiding your students' research, or
weighing different approaches to your own work, Sage Research Methods can make your life easier. With the User Guide for Faculty, you can create and curate a reading list to embed into Blackboard. Sample classroom assignments and case on teaching with Sage Research Methods is available on the Faculty Resources page. For more information, contact your subject librarian.
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ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS HIGHLIGHT
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The Dragon Prayer Book, Northeastern's only illuminated manuscript, was the subject of "
Decoding the Dragon
," an event in which taught the basics of reading Gothic font and medieval abbreviations within the Dragon Prayer Book. This decoding will lead to further transcription of this manuscript, which is a crowd sourced, Open Access initiative. The Dragon Prayer Book is currently on display at the "Beyond Words" exhibition at The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: DMC RECORDING STUDIOS
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Want to go
beyond text
and provide your students with the opportunity to create a digital story, oral history interview, audio recording, short video, slideshow, or photo essay for their projects? Digital Media Commons (Recording) Studios staff in Snell Library collaborate with faculty across the curriculum to help plan and implement media-based assignments and teach digital literacy skills. If you are interested in creating such an assignment for Spring 2017, please complete the
DMC (Recording) Studios Instruction Proposal Form
. Forms received by December 1 will receive the highest consideration.
For more information about course proposals or the DRS Showcase, please contact
Debra Mandel
or call 617-373-4902.
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NEW LIBRARY STAFF: here to connect you with the resources you need.
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DIGITAL REPOSITORY SERVICE UPDATE
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King Husky I's Birthday Celebration, located in the Digital Repository Service
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are now included within Northeastern's Digital Repository Service!
The Digital Repository makes it simple to
deposit your work
and increase discoverability of your research.
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DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP GROUP TO EXPAND DIGITAL HUMANITIES INITIATIVES
National Endowment for the Humanities Awards Two Grants
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The TAPAS
(TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service) project has received funding to begin development of the TAPAS Classroom, an international initiative to support teaching and learning the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) using TAPAS. TAPAS Classroom will extend the current project infrastructure to include features and services that will allow TAPAS users to store and share teaching materials, view TEI data in innovative ways, and support student encoding in a sandbox environment.
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COMING SOON
Be on the lookout for a library survey coming later this month! Share your opinions on library services, spaces, and resources and look for opportunities to engage in focus groups as we explore the library's continuing evolution.
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