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The Library Research & Data Services team provides support and guidance to the Chapman University research community. Our focus is on empowering faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and staff to address their needs throughout the research and data life cycles. Our team emphasizes providing workshops, individual consultations, research and data services tools, and virtual or in-person demonstrations focusing on research data management (RDM), data analysis, data visualization, and text and data mining.

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<div class="collapsibles-widget"> <h2 class="sectionHeader">Links</h2> <div class="editableContent summaryText"><a href="https://libguides.chapman.edu/data_resources"></a></div><br><div class="row"> <div class="toggle-expand-collapse expand" data-toggle="collapsibles-widget__toggle" tabindex="0">Toggle Section</div> </div> <div aria-expanded="false" class="accordion" role="button"> <h3 class="header" role="button" tabindex="0"><span class="show"></span><span class="hide"></span> Data Sets </h3> <div class="content editableContent"> <p>The Leatherby Libraries subscribes to an extensive set of databases & electronic resources which provide access to data sets. This LibGuide page guides students & researchers to data sets in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Engineering, and Health Sciences. It includes a section devoted to tools to use for manipulating data.</p> <p><a href="https://libguides.chapman.edu/data_resources">https://libguides.chapman.edu/data_resources</a></p> </div> </div> <div aria-expanded="false" class="accordion" role="button"> <h3 class="header" role="button" tabindex="0"><span class="show"></span><span class="hide"></span> Research Data Management </h3> <div class="content editableContent"> <p>Researchers with questions about how to best manage their data should begin here. This LibGuide provides guidance regarding creating a Data Management & Sharing Plan (DMSP), data management best practices, and available options for storing research data.</p> <p><a href="https://libguides.chapman.edu/data_management">https://libguides.chapman.edu/data_management</a></p> </div> </div> <div aria-expanded="false" class="accordion" role="button"> <h3 class="header" role="button" tabindex="0"><span class="show"></span><span class="hide"></span> Open Access and Data Sharing Mandates </h3> <div class="content editableContent"> <p>Numerous federal funding agencies and foundations have data sharing requirements in place, and all federal agencies which provide grant funding will require data sharing by 2026. Researchers can find a comprehensive list of data sharing mandates on this page.</p> <p><a href="https://libguides.chapman.edu/sharing_mandates">https://libguides.chapman.edu/sharing_mandates</a></p> </div> </div> <div aria-expanded="false" class="accordion" role="button"> <h3 class="header" role="button" tabindex="0"><span class="show"></span><span class="hide"></span> Scholarly Communications and Open Access Publishing </h3> <div class="content editableContent"> <p>This group of pages provides an overview of the process of finding a place to publish research results and how to evaluate various publication venues. In addition, researchers can see the current list of publishers where Chapman University researchers can publish without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC).</p> <p><a href="https://libguides.chapman.edu/get_published">https://libguides.chapman.edu/get_published</a></p> </div> </div> <div aria-expanded="false" class="accordion" role="button"> <h3 class="header" role="button" tabindex="0"><span class="show"></span><span class="hide"></span> Geographic Information Systems </h3> <div class="content editableContent"> <p>This subject guide will help students and faculty find articles, books, reference sources, and software tools for working in the fields of geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).</p> <p><a href="https://libguides.chapman.edu/magic">https://libguides.chapman.edu/magic</a></p> </div> </div> <div aria-expanded="false" class="accordion" role="button"> <h3 class="header" role="button" tabindex="0"><span class="show"></span><span class="hide"></span> Text and Data Mining </h3> <div class="content editableContent"> <p>Text & Data Mining tools are reshaping the kinds of questions that researchers can ask about large data sets. This guide provides an overview of the tools the Leatherby Libraries makes available, including Constellate and Proquest Text & Data Mining Studio.</p> <p>Link Coming Soon!</p> </div> </div> <div aria-expanded="false" class="accordion" role="button"> <h3 class="header" role="button" tabindex="0"><span class="show"></span><span class="hide"></span> Data Visualization </h3> <div class="content editableContent"> <p>For students and researchers who work with data, visual representations such as graphs, charts, and maps are an important means of making sense of the underlying data. This subject guide provides an in-depth discussion of how to get started with data visualization and what resources are available for assistance.</p> <p><a href="https://libguides.chapman.edu/data_visualization">https://libguides.chapman.edu/data_visualization</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="personnel-listing-widget"> <h2 class="sectionHeader">Library Research & Data Services Team Members</h2> <span id="doug-dechow, phd"></span><div class="person" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><img alt="photo of Doug Dechow, PhD" class="image" itemprop="image" src="/library/_files/images/dechow.jpeg" style="width: 120px;"><h3 class="name" itemprop="name">Doug Dechow, PhD</h3> <div class="title" itemprop="title">Assistant Dean for Library Research & Data Services</div> <div class="phone" itemprop="telephone">714-532-7781</div><a class="email" href="mailto:dechow@chapman.edu" itemprop="email">dechow@chapman.edu</a><div class="bio">Subject Areas: Python, R, Text/Data Mining, Assessment/Bibliometrics</div> </div> <span id="kristin-laughtin-dunker"></span><div class="person" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><img alt="photo of Kristin Laughtin-Dunker" class="image" itemprop="image" src="/library/_files/images/laughtin-dunker.png" style="width: 120px;"><h3 class="name" itemprop="name">Kristin Laughtin-Dunker</h3> <div class="title" itemprop="title">Chair of Resources and Scholarly Communications</div> <div class="phone" itemprop="telephone">714-532-7769</div><a class="email" href="mailto:laughtin@chapman.edu" itemprop="email">laughtin@chapman.edu</a><div class="bio">Subject Areas: Research Data Management, Institutional/ Data Repositories, Licenses, Data Sharing Requirements</div> </div> <span id="taylor-greene"></span><div class="person" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><img alt="photo of Taylor Greene" class="image" itemprop="image" src="/library/_files/images/greene.jpg" style="width: 120px;"><h3 class="name" itemprop="name">Taylor Greene</h3> <div class="title" itemprop="title">Chair of Research and Instructional Services</div> <div class="phone" itemprop="telephone">714-532-7782</div><a class="email" href="mailto:tgreene@chapman.edu" itemprop="email">tgreene@chapman.edu</a><div class="bio">Subject Areas: Information Literacy, Data Literacy</div> </div> <span id="ivan-portillo"></span><div class="person" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><img alt="photo of Ivan Portillo" class="image" itemprop="image" src="/library/_files/images/ivan_2.jpg" style="width: 120px;"><h3 class="name" itemprop="name">Ivan Portillo</h3> <div class="title" itemprop="title">Director, Rinker Campus Library Services</div> <div class="phone" itemprop="telephone">714-532-7710</div><a class="email" href="mailto:iportillo@chapman.edu" itemprop="email">iportillo@chapman.edu</a><div class="bio">Subject Areas: Research Data Management, Systematic Reviews</div> </div> <span id="andrew-greenman"></span><div class="person" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><img alt="photo of Andrew Greenman" class="image" itemprop="image" src="/library/_files/images/greenman.jpg" style="width: 120px;"><h3 class="name" itemprop="name">Andrew Greenman</h3> <div class="title" itemprop="title">Data Services Librarian</div> <div class="phone" itemprop="telephone">714-532-7713</div><a class="email" href="mailto:agreenman@chapman.edu" itemprop="email">agreenman@chapman.edu</a><div class="bio">Subject Areas: Research Data Management, Data Repositories, Data Discovery, Data Sharing Requirements, Data Visualization </div> </div> <span id="david-carson"></span><div class="person" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><img alt="photo of David Carson" class="image" itemprop="image" src="/library/_files/images/dcarson_brandman.jpg" style="width: 120px;"><h3 class="name" itemprop="name">David Carson</h3> <div class="title" itemprop="title">Health Sciences Librarian</div> <div class="phone" itemprop="telephone">714-532-7720</div><a class="email" href="mailto:davcarso@chapman.edu" itemprop="email">davcarso@chapman.edu</a><div class="bio">Subject Areas: Data Sharing Requirements, Systematic Reviews</div> </div> <span id="elaine-yeung, phd"></span><div class="person" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><img alt="photo of Elaine Yeung, PhD" class="image" itemprop="image" src="/library/_files/images/elaine_yeung.jpeg" style="width: 120px;"><h3 class="name" itemprop="name">Elaine Yeung, PhD</h3> <div class="title" itemprop="title">Sciences Librarian</div> <div class="phone" itemprop="telephone">714-532-7707</div><a class="email" href="mailto:eyeung@chapman.edu" itemprop="email">eyeung@chapman.edu</a><div class="bio">Subject Areas: R Programming, Bioinformatics, Biconductor</div> </div> <span id="ana-munandar"></span><div class="person" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><img alt="photo of Ana Munandar" class="image" itemprop="image" src="/library/_files/images/ana_original.jpg" style="width: 120px;"><h3 class="name" itemprop="name">Ana Munandar</h3> <div class="title" itemprop="title">Reference Librarian</div> <div class="phone" itemprop="telephone">714-532-7732</div><a class="email" href="mailto:munandar@chapman.edu" itemprop="email">munandar@chapman.edu</a><div class="bio">Subject Areas: Research Data Management</div> </div> </div>

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The Library Research & Data Services team is here to help with questions related to data management and sharing, data sets, open access publishing, geographic information sets, data visualization, and text and data mining.

You can reach us by emailing LRDS@chapman.edu.

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