Data Services Overview

• Help locating datasets, statistics, and microdata for research or coursework.
• Guidance on evaluating sources, understanding licensing, and accessing government or disciplinary data repositories.

• Assistance with tidy data, missing values, documentation, and standardization.
• Support for Excel, Sheets, OpenRefine, Python, R, and other tools.

• Consultation on NIH/NSF/foundation-compliant data management planning.
• Advice on storage, versioning, backup, sensitive data handling, and documentation workflows and support navigating other relevant university areas such as data compliance review and technical infrastructure.

• Creation of codebooks, readme files, and variable dictionaries.
• Support for disciplinary metadata standards (e.g., Dublin Core, DDI, DataCite).  

• Identifying trusted repositories including institutional, disciplinary, and generalist archives.
• Guidance on file formats, documentation, DOIs, licensing, and citation practices.

• Guest lectures and workshops on data literacy, ethics, cleaning, and source evaluation.
• Support for assignment materials and hands-on instructional activities.

Have you seen Sage Datasets arranged by Discipline, Method, and other?

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• Workflow mapping, project planning, and reproducible practice recommendations.
• Grant text and budgeting help for data components of funded projects.

• Help understanding and connecting with data and privacy compliance offices for FERPA, HIPAA, PII, cybersecurity, and storage standards.
• Support using the DMPTool with Ohio University configurations for grant-required Data Management & Sharing Plans and reviewing a plan for feedback.