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This concise sourcebook takes the guesswork out of locating the best sources of data, a process more important than ever as the data landscape grows increasingly cluttered. Much of the most frequently used data can be found free online, and this book shows readers how to look for it with the assistance of user-friendly tools. This thoroughly annotated guide will be a boon to library staff at public libraries, high school libraries, academic libraries, and other research institutions, with concentrated coverage of: Data sources for frequently researched subjects such as agriculture, the earth sciences, economics, energy, political science, transportation, and many more; The basics of data reference along with an overview of the most useful sources, focusing on free online sources of reliable statistics like government agencies and NGOs; Statistical datasets, and how to understand and make use of them; How to use article databases, WorldCat, and subject experts to find data; Methods for citing data; Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) software.This guide cuts through the data jargon to help librarians and researchers find exactly what they're looking for.
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Armed with this guide's strategies and concrete examples, subject librarians, data services librarians, and scholarly communication librarians will be inspired to roll up their sleeves and get involved with teaching research data management competencies to students and faculty.The usefulness of research data management skills bridges numerous activities, from data-driven scholarship and open research by faculty to documentation for grant reporting. And undergrads need a solid foundation in data management for future academic success. This collection gathers practitioners from a broad range of academic libraries to describe their services and instruction around research data.
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The strategies and initiatives detailed in this book will empower data librarians, information literacy instructors, library liaisons, and reference staff to successfully incorporate data literacy into their work.We live in a data-driven world, much of it processed and served up by increasingly complex algorithms, and evaluating its quality requires its own skillset. As a component of information literacy, it's crucial that students learn how to think critically about statistics, data, and related visualizations. Here, Bauder and her fellow contributors show how librarians are helping students to access, interpret, critically assess, manage, handle, and ethically use data. Offering readers a roadmap for effectively teaching data literacy at the undergraduate level, this volume explores such topics asthe potential for large-scale library/faculty partnerships to incorporate data literacy instruction across the undergraduate curriculum;how the principles of the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education can help to situate data literacy within a broader information literacy context;a report on the expectations of classroom faculty concerning their students' data literacy skills;various ways that librarians can partner with faculty;case studies of two initiatives spearheaded by Purdue University Libraries and University of Houston Libraries that support faculty as they integrate more work with data into their courses;Barnard College's Empirical Reasoning Center, which provides workshops and walk-in consultations to more than a thousand students annually;how a one-shot session using the PolicyMap data mapping tool can be used to teach students from many different disciplines;diving into quantitative data to determine the truth or falsity of potential "fake news" claims; anda for-credit, librarian-taught course on information dissemination and the ethical use of information.