The Library Data Services Program guides scholars to discover, access, share, and preserve data through dataset acquisition, discovery, and librarian-led instruction and consultations.
Service areas
Data discovery and access
- Discovering datasets
- Acquiring and licensing datasets
- Basic data use agreements
Data management
- Data management plan guidance for grant proposals and project workflows
- Basic and intermediary support for tools, concepts, and workflows for geographic information system (GIS) services, qualitative, and quantitative data
- Data organization
Data literacy
- Provide and coordinate undergraduate and graduate student instruction to address data literacy and research data lifecycle concepts
- Basic data visualization
Data collection
- Advice and basic support for data collection platforms and tools (surveys, text and data mining)
Data publication and reuse
- Licensing and rights management for data publishing
- Publishing, sharing, persistence, reproducing, and preserving/archiving data for future discovery and use.
Contact us
For assistance, please contact librarydataservices@berkeley.edu.
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