Are you researching, writing, or creating this summer? Information Services’ Scholarship Support Services details the many ways we can assist you in achieving your scholarship goals. Whether you are working with novel methodologies and techniques, collaborating in new ways with colleagues and students, managing data requirements for grants, Information Services can partner with you to…
Category: Research Process
8th Annual Library Research Prize for Students
We are receiving applications for the 8th Annual Library Research Prize for Students! All currently enrolled undergraduate students are eligible to apply through this Moodle Campus site. Submissions must include answers to some reflective application questions, a bibliography, the work completed by the student, and a faculty support form. The work must have been completed for…
Data as an Agent of Change
Love Data Week’s theme this year focuses on data as an agent of change, specifically bringing attention to how a community might use data to bring about meaningful change to policy or society. Data activism is a specific type of social activism that aims to make affirmative use of data and technology for advocacy and…
Introduction to Web Scraping Tools
Building off our recent exploration of tools for scraping and analyzing Twitter data, and expanding into more general web scrapers, there are a range of tools that allow you to “scrape” or extract data from any website you want. Before you begin scraping, make sure that your target website allows it. You can do this…
NVivo for Audio Transcription and Data Analysis
post contributed by Lydia Klein ’22, Digital Scholarship Assistant The Digital Scholarship and Curriculum Center (DSCC) now offers NVivo for qualitative data analysis. NVivo allows you to import research data from virtually any source, centralize and organize your data, and analyze unstructured text, audio, video, and image data, including interviews, focus groups, surveys, social media,…
Faculty Workshop: Library Tools to Stay Current with Research
The library provides access to, and support for, many resources that can help you stay current on research in your field as you move through your career. Our focus will be on developing strategies so you can save time and stay up to date! We will look at options for setting up notifications/alerts from within…
5th Annual Library Research Prize for Students
All currently enrolled undergraduate students are eligible. The work must have been completed for a credit course (not an honors project) in spring 2019, fall 2019, or it can be a work in progress in spring 2020. The research in question can be a traditional paper, but it could also be some other kind of…
2019 Digital Scholarship Fellows Program: Call for Proposals
Have you ever wanted to create a digital companion for a book project? Do you have collections of research materials collecting dust or physically degrading in your office, or large datasets you’d like to develop into maps or visualizations to accompany your written scholarship? Would you like your students to actively engage with Special Collections…
Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium, November 12
On Monday, November 12, join Information Services and the Office of the Dean of Faculty for the inaugural Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Symposium at Connecticut College. You can see the full schedule and details here. The symposium is the culminating event of the first year of the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program, funded by…
2018 Digital Scholarship Fellows Program: Call for Proposals
Have you been thinking about creating a digital companion for your book project? Do you have collections of research materials collecting dust or physically degrading in your office, or large datasets you’d like to develop into a digital archive, maps, or visualizations to accompany your written scholarship? Would you like your students to actively engage…
