Sally Gore, MS, MS LIS
Manager, Research & Scholarly Communication Services
sally.gore@umassmed.edu
Tess Grynoch, MLIS
Research Data & Scholarly Communications Librarian
tess.grynoch@umassmed.edu
Leah Honor, MLIS
Research Data & Scholarly Communications Librarian
leah.honor@umassmed.edu
Lisa Palmer, MSLS, AHIP
Institutional Repository Librarian
lisa.palmer@umassmed.edu
Please refer to our guides for specific information about:
The Library Data Services Team is available to help you, your lab, or center understand your data management needs and recommend best practices for keeping your data usable, now and into the future.
Data Management Plans are required components for some grant proposals that outline how the principle investigators will manage and share their primary research data.
If requested, the Library Data Services Team can review your data management plan (DMP) prior to submission with grant applications and provide feedback. Please allow ten working days for our review. We will try to accommodate requests for review at short notice but please note that we cannot guarantee this.
Messy data on your hands? The Library Data Services Team can help provide guidance on how to clean it using OpenRefine or R.
Take your visualizations to the next level with feedback from our data visualization experts. Currently providing technical assistance with visualizations in Excel, R, and Tableau and happy to provide feedback on visualizations from any software.
Please check out the following tutorials, or contact the Library Data Services Team to set up a training on any of the following data topics for yourself or your group:
Select library workstations have statistical software packages SPSS and SAS available for use. View the list of specific desktops.
eScholarship@UMassChan can serve as a home for research data files that support scholarly publications, including dissertations, theses, and journal articles that must meet requirements for the preservation and dissemination of data.
Benefits of sharing your data through eScholarship@UMassChan:
View this example of a data set housed in eScholarship@UMassChan
If you have any questions about our repository services or are interested in depositing some data in eScholarship, contact Lisa Palmer (lisa.palmer@umassmed.edu).
The Quantitative Methods Core (QMC), within the Division of Biostatistics and Health Sciences Research in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, provides clinical research support in biostatistics, experimental design, and data management.
Request a consultation from QMC
Research Technology, a division of UMass Chan Medical Information Technology group, has a well-established and diverse team of IT professionals that can provide a variety of services related to your clinical and basic science research needs.
The Research Informatics Core develops and disseminates tools to aid with data collection and storage and provides access to clinical data in the UMCCTS Data Lake.
How to obtain data from the UMCCTS Data Lake
Managed by the Office of Research, Research Cores provide a number of services, tools, resources, and facilities to UMass Chan faculty and research staff.
Qualitative Methods Core: The purpose of the Qualitative Research Core is to provide leadership within UMass Chan to foster high-quality, high-impact qualitative research and education.
View the full list of Research Cores.
IT manages several research computing service options for the UMass Chan community. Including: