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                                      Data Management | Data Sources
Federal Funding Agencies: Data Management and Sharing Policies
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-110 provides the federal administrative requirements for grants and agreements with institutions of higher education, hospitals and other non-profit organizations. In 1999 Circular A-110 was revised to provide public access under some circumstances to research data through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Funding agencies have implemented the OMB requirement in various ways. This table summarizes the data management and sharing requirements of primary US federal funding agencies.
DATA MANAGEMENT - use for planning lists, software, publishing requirements, sharing data.
        University of California Resources
   • EZID - create a persistant DOI or ARK. ~understanding identifiers (CDL)
   • Manage Your Data - Data Management Plan - DMPTool - Data Management Planning Tool (CDL)
   • UC3, University of California Data Curation Center - California Digital Library.
   • Scientific Data Services. Science Libraries @ UC Berkeley
   • UC Berkeley Data Services Management, IST.
  USEFUL sites:
 • Australian National University: Data Management Manual (pdf).
 • Data Conservancy Organization
    The Data Conservancy (DC) makes scientific data curation a means to collect, organize, validate and preserve data. Will work with arXiv. The Data Conservancy is sponsored by the National Science Foundation under DataNET award
 • Many Eyes: data visualization tools from IBM.
 • MIT, Data Planning Checklist, MIT, Data Management & Publishing.
 • NSF, National Science Foundation Data Managment Policies & Procedures. Institutional Initiatives (utube video)
        • NSF FAQ -- Data Management & Sharing Frequently Asked Questions
 • NIH, National Institute of Health, Data Sharing Policy and Implementation Guidance
 • NIPH, National Institute of Public Health, Public Access Policy.
 • Research Data ToolKit, Resources for Writing a Data management Program. UNC - Chapel Hill
 • University of Minnesota: Creating a Data Management Plan.
     Copyright, Open Access & Scholarly Communication Resources - selected links.
  BRII. Berkeley Research Impact Initiative, support for authors publishing in open access journals
  Copyright Resources at UC Berkeley.
  Copyright in Teaching, Research and Publishing. UC Berkeley Library
  Creative Commons, Science. What is this? - Science Commons - links to Open Data resources, PLOS.
  OASIS. Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook.
  SPARC. Scholarly Publishing and Academic Research Coalition
  UC Berkeley Scholarly Communication. cover issues, proposed changes, & new models.
UC University of California Copyright information and links.
UC Office of Scholarly Communication. Reshaping Scholarly Communication.
DATA SOURCES:
 • ACS Periodic Table
  Provides interactive element data and electron configuration, diagrams and more.
 • Astronomical Applications - includes Astrometry, Data Services
  Links to the Astronomical Applications Department of the US Naval Observatory.
 • ASM Alloy Center includes Phase Diagrams Center.  UCB only.
  provides search and view 11,000+ binary & ternary phase diagrams & associated phase data 2400+ systems.
 • ASM Materials Information.UCB only. Covers metals and engineered materials such as composites, ceramics, and plastics. 
ASM Alloy Center: includes ASM property data, performance charts & processing guidelines for metals & alloys.
ASM Micrograph Center: 2500+ micrographs for industrially important alloys.
ASM Failure Analysis Center: 1000+ case histories & handbook information on failure mechanisms & analysis methods.
 • ASM Handbooks Online UCB only
  includes the complete content of 20 ASM Handbook volumes plus two ASM Desk Editions
 • ChemBioFinder
  Includes physical property data for 1000+ common compounds and the Merck Index, 14th ed.
 • ChemIDplus. UCB only
  Database of chemical compounds including chemical name, formula and properties. Results include information pertaining to the compound, 2D and 3D structures & links to relevant journal articles. Another feature of the database is the SuperList, which provides information on whether the chemical substances is on federal and state regulatory agency lists.
 • ChemNetBase. UCB only. CHEMnetBASE is a collection of chemistry databases from CRC Press.
  Handbook of Chemistry and Physics | Dictionary of Drugs | Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds | Dictionary of Marine Natural Products | Dictionary of Food Compounds | Dictionary of Carbohydrates | Polymers: A Property Database | Properties of Organic Compounds
 • CINDAS MPMD: Microelectronics Packaging Materials Database.  UCB only
  Contains data on thermal, mechanical, electrical, and physical properties of electronics packaging materials, 15,000+ data curves.
 • CINDAS TPMD: Thermo physical Properties of Matter Database.  UCB only
  Contains thermo physical properties of 5,000+ materials with 50,000+ data curves. Searchable by material, property, or partial name.
 • Combined Chemical Dictionary  (ChemNetBase) UCB only
 
  • Dictionary of Organic Compounds
  • Dictionary of Natural Products
  • Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
  • Dictionary of Pharmacological Agents
  • Dictionary of Analytical Reagents
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     • CRC Materials Science & Engineering Handbook.
     • CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.  UCB only. good place to start.
      Includes basic property data
     • Data Analysis Briefbook (CERN)
     • Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds.Introduction.  UCB only
     • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA).
      Link to data lists: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/amp/ampdata/databases.html
     • HEPDATA: Reaction Data Database (SLAC Mirror)
      Contains numerical values of HEP scattering data such as total and differential cross sections, fragmentation functions, structure functions, and polarization measurements, from a wide range of experiments. Compiled by the Durham Database Group (UK) and the COMPAS group (Russia), updated at regular intervals.
     • International Tables for Crystallography.  UCB only
     
  • Volume A Space-group symmetry
  • Volume A1 Symmetry relations between space groups
  • Volume B Reciprocal space
  • Volume C Mathematical, physical and chemical tables
  • Volume D Physical properties of crystals
  • Volume E Subperiodic groups
  • Volume F Crystallography of biological macromolecules
  • Volume G Definition and exchange of crystallographic data
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     • Isotopes Project (LBNL & LUND)
     • Knovel  UCB only. large collection of full text electronic handbooks.
     • Knovel Critical Tables.  UCB only
     • The Lund / LBNL Nuclear Data Search
      Includes physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties for thousands of compounds and pure substances.
     • Landolt-Börnstein. = Springer Materials. UCB only. New volumes are added.
    Landolt–Börnstein is a data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. First published in 1883 by physicist Hans Heinrich Landolt and chemist Richard Börnstein.
    For print in the Physics-Astronomy Library use QC61 .L32. Check OskiCat for holdings.
     
  • Group I Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms
  • Group II Molecules and Radicals
  • Group III Condensed Matter
  • Group IV Physical Chemistry
  • Group V Geophysics
  • Group VI Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Group VII Biophysics
  • Group VIII Advanced Materials and Technologies
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     • The Laws List
     • MatWeb.
      Contains property data for metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites.
     • Merck Index.
     • NASA's Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF)
     • National Nuclear Data Group
     • National Virtual Observatory (NVO)
      These data sets cover the sky in different wavebands, from gamma- and X-rays, optical, infrared, through to radio. The NVO Project is working with development efforts worldwide, forming the International Virtual Observatory Alliance.
     • NIST Ceramics WebBook
      Provides evaluated property data for ceramics plus links to other sources.
     • NIST Chemistry WebBook
      Provides thermochemical data, thermophysical data, and spectra.
     • NIST Physical Reference Data. (National Institute of Standards)
      Includes physical constants, atomic spectroscopic data, molecular spectroscopic data, ionization data, X-ray and gamma-ray data, radiation dosimetry data, nuclear physics data, and condensed matter physics data.
     • PACS Numbers -
    		The Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme® (PACS) was developed by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and has been used in Physical Review since 1975 to identify fields and sub-fields of physics.Can be used to search for articles by subject. PACS is arranged hierarchically, by subdivision of the whole spectrum of subject matter in physics- and astronomy-related sciences into segments and then repeating the process of subdivision down to four levels.
     • Particle Properties Database/Review of Particle Properties (LBL)
     • Physical Constants (CODATA)
      Foundation of modern science and technology from the Physics Laboratory of NIST
     • Physical Reference Data (NIST)
     • PHYSICSnetBase UCB only
      includes electronic physics reference books and data.
     • Polymers: a Property Database.  UCB only
     • Properties of Organic Compounds.  UCB only. included in ChemNetBase.
     • Review of Particle Physics (Particle Data Group)
     • Smithsonian Physical Tables.
      Classic reference for common physical and chemical data.
     • SPIDR: Space Physics Interactive Data Resource
      SPIDR is designed to allow a solar terrestrial physics customer to access and manage historical space physics data for integration with environment models and space weather forecasts.
     • Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants / Kaye & Laby
     • ThermoDex (UT Austin)
      An Index of Selected Thermodynamic Data Handbooks (UnivTX) results are based on the holdings of the Mallet Chemistry Library at UT Austin. Links are provided to identify library holdings in your area.
     • Thermodynamic Data and Property Calculation Sites on the Web.
      Compiled by the Thermodynamics Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
     • University of California Material Safety Data Sheets Resources.
      Provides links to several MSDS resources, including the UC MSDS Management System.
     • Table of Nuclides
     • X-Ray Data Booklet. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Center for X-Ray Optics and Advanced Light Source.
     • X-Ray Diffraction:
      Compiled by UCSB, Materials Research Lab; lists resources for x-ray properties, diffraction, crystallography, and various measurements.
      Fundamentals of Powder Diffraction and structural characterization of materials. / Vitalij K. Pecharsky and Peter Y. Zavalij. via SpringerLink.
     • WebElements Periodic Table
     
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