Research Data Services, and Digital Scholarship Services

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:55:28 -0500
data, library, orcid, research

The Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery at UMBC has announced new Research Data Services and Digital Scholarship Services, please see the information below.

New!

UMBC now has open access agreements with some publishers: UMBC Open Access Agreements.

Pending the approval of the President, UMBC now has an Open Access Policy.

ScholarWorks@UMBC

The Library will add works to ScholarWorks@UMBC for you. If you've previously sent a list of publications, or link to a list of publications, you don't need to do anything. Each year, we'll automatically add your new works, contacting you for anything we need.

If we've not yet gone through your works, please send me any of the following:

· A list of your published works (including works before you were at UMBC). You can send a link to a publications website, a public Google Scholar page, your CV, or just paste a list into an email.

· Your unpublished works with the files attached. These can be reports, lab notes, data, presentation slides, posters, etc.

· Links to free articles or papers about you, your work, your department, program, lab, or center or about UMBC.

· The name and email address of students who have done outstanding papers or projects for one of your classes, and we'll include their work in ScholarWorks@UMBC. Include the name and number of the course and the name of the assignment.

Research Data Services

Data Management for Future Researchers

Michelle Flinchbaugh, flinchba@umbc.edu can come to your class or your lab meeting to give your students an overview of best data management practices for research replication.

Guide to Research Data

Information on where to find data, and how to cite data. Additionally, we have information on topics in research data management, such as data management plans, documentation, file organization and version control, and repositories for sharing data. Finally we provide information on several free tools for data integration, analysis and visualization.

Data Management and Sharing Support for NIH PIs

Michelle Flinchbaugh, flinchba@umbc.edu, can provide hands-on assistance with:

• Projecting the cost of data management and sharing

• Data management planning and plans

• Project and data documentation

• Organization of files and folders

• Data collection, storage, and back-up

• Data description

• Data sharing and preservation

Lab Archives

UMBC has an institutional subscription to Lab Archives. It allows you to organize and share your research notes and data with your research group so that you can easily work together and communicate. It includes access control, change history, disaster-recovery back-ups, and more. For free access via the UMBC subscription using your myUMBC login, when you login, select UMBC from the list of institutions with single sign-on access.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

UMBC has a membership in ICSPR, an international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSRmaintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. UMBC's membership gives all authorized library users free full access. Be sure you use your UMBC email address when creating an account to be authenticated as a member. ICPSR offers 15,000+ Studies from 40 social and behavioral science disciplines and much more. Find data here: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/ICPSR/index.html.

Digital Scholarship Services

ORCID

Save Time! There are a bunch of fast and easy ways to quickly load lots of your works' citations into ORCID then into Digital Measures. Many publishers and professional organizations can also automatically load materials into ORCID for you if you give them permission. ORCID is a type of author identifier, so be sure to use the form of your name that you prefer to use on publications and to give the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as your employer. For more information on ORCID or instructions on how to set up your ORCID, see https://lib.guides.umbc.edu/c.php?g=1047837.

UMBC Faculty Expert Search Tool

UMBC now has Faculty Expert Database. Faculty can turn their listing in it on so that it draws information from Digital Measures by visiting umbc.edu/go/directory-info and under Profile Format select Digital Measures. Directory information, Personal and Contact Information, and other Digital Measures items you have specifically selected will display in your public profile. Full instructions are here: How to update your profile in UMBC's new faculty expert search tool

Web of Science and Scopus corrections

Digital Scholarship Services corrects affiliations in Scopus and Web of Science so that UMBC is credited for its researchers' work.

The Digital Scholarship Services website includes information on all of the above services, plus more:

Guides

Guide to Submitting Works to Scholarworks@UMBC

Copyright Libguide

Guide to Open Access

UMBC Open Access Agreements

UMBC Open Access Policy

Guide to ORCID

Guide to Research Data

Paying for Open Access and Data Sharing

Biosketches and CPOS in SciENcv