Short text: Looking for data? Let us show you good places to start searching!
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The Data Sources for STEM videos (Options for Remote STEM Research videos 20-24, posting weekdays July 15-21) will discuss common places to find existing datasets for STEM fields. Watch the videos and bring your questions to the STEM Services team (link: https://libraries.ou.edu/content/stem-services)! Registration is required to receive Zoom link.
- Video 20, overview
- Video + voiceover: "Hi everyone, this is Claire Curry at the University of Oklahoma libraries. Welcome to another installment of Options for Remote STEM research series that covers using existing datasets. Here in videos 20-24, we'll talk about common data sources for all the STEM departments we cover."
- To do general searching for data, the strategies are going to be similar as we've talked about beofre in videos 9 (spatial dataset searching) and 13 (literature searching). For data it can help to start broad to find repositories, but narrower if you are looking for datasets associated with papers.
- In the next four videos, we'll hear from all four STEM librarians about specific data repositories and sources in their fields.
- This will be Amanda Schilling for Mathematics, Meteorology, and Physics & Astronomy; Brent Tweedy for Chemistry & Biochemistry; Health & Exercise Science; and Psychology; Claire Curry for Biology, Geography & Environmental Sustainability, and Microbiology & Plant biology; and James Bierman for Aviation; Engineering; and Geology & Geophysics.
- Again, this is a great time to book an appointment with your subject librarian to search for your data or learn about repositories that may be more specialized in your area of research.
- Video 21, Amanda's departments
- Claire: Amanda Schilling is the subject liaison to Mathematics, Meteorology, and Physics & Astronomy. She's going to show us some common data sources used by researchers in her departments.
- Amanda (maximum 3 mins please)
- Hi, my name is Amanda Schilling. [if comfortable: My pronouns are ... ]
- Data sources that all three departments might use:
- fill in here
- My background is in Physics and Astronomy, so I'll start with datasets for those research areas. Some of these databases have an SQL-like search and retrieval option
- Space Telescope data - https://archive.stsci.edu/access-mast-data
- NASA Open Data Portal - https://data.nasa.gov
- Extragalactic database - https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) - https://www.sdss.org/
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database (Strasbourg astronomical Data Center) - http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/
- Mathematics
- Fill in sources
- Meteorology
- Fill in sources
- Claire: once again, here is Amanda's contact info. [slide] Please make an appointment with her or contact her for more help!
- Regular video closing (twitter, davis listserv, my contact info / pronouns)
- Video 22, Brent's departments
- Claire: Brent Tweedy is the subject liaison to Chemistry & Biochemistry; Health & Exercise Science; and Psychology. He's going to show us some common data sources used by researchers in his departments.
- Brent (maximum 3 mins please)
- Hi, my name is Brent Tweedy. [if comfortable: My pronouns are ... ]
- Data sources that all three departments might use:
- fill in, if any
- My background is in biology, so I'll start with datasets for Health & Exercise Sciences.
- Fill in sources
- Chemistry & Biochemistry
- Fill in sources
- Psychology
- Fill in sources
- Claire: once again, here is Brent's contact info. [slide] Please make an appointment with him or contact him for more help!
- Regular video closing (twitter, davis listserv, my contact info / pronouns)
- Video 23, Claire's departments
- I am the subject liaison to Biology, Geography & Environmental Sustainability, and Microbiology & Plant biology. I'm going to talk about some common data sources used by researchers in my departments.
- Tour of libguide -
- Claire: once again, here is my contact info. [slide] You can also reach Amanda, Brent, and James at this link. Please make an appointment with me for more help!
- Regular video closing (twitter, davis listserv, my contact info / pronouns)
- Video 24, James' departments
- Claire: James Bierman is the subject liaison to Aviation, Engineering, and Geology & Geophysics. He's going to show us some common data sources used by researchers in his departments.
- James (maximum 3 mins please)
- Hi, my name is James Bierman. [if comfortable: My pronouns are ... .] In addition to working with departments, I'm the branch head for the Youngblood Energy Library in Sarkey's Energy Center.
- Data sources that all three departments might use:
- Fill in, if any
- Aviation
- Fill in sources
- Engineering
- Fill in sources
- Geology & Geophysics
- Fill in sources
- Claire: once again, here is James's contact info. [slide] Please make an appointment with him or contact him for more help!
- Regular video closing (twitter, davis listserv, my contact info / pronouns)