Data Science

This page is for Data Science faculty. Here SDS faculty will find all of the services that are tailored to their research and instructional needs.

• How to access articles off Grounds
• Meet open access requirements
• Find funding
• Get help with data services
• Get help with your course materials
• Get help with information literacy and course instruction
• Find research literature
• Journal recommenders for your manuscripts
• Bonus fun stuff

You can access our digital offerings even when you are not working on Grounds. When you are off Grounds, you need to authenticate at some point so that publisher websites recognize that you are a UVA affiliate. If you start your search on a library website, our links will always ask you for your NetBadge.  Using the VPN also works well, but you need to remember to turn it on.  Updating your Google Scholar settings to reflect your affiliation with UVA will also activate NetBadge and direct you to any copies the library may have.

If you are off Grounds and not starting with the library website, you best bet is to use the Libkey Nomad browser extension.  Libkey Nomad makes it easy to get to an article, no matter how you start your search.  If the article is not available through UVA Library or open access, Libkey Nomad will fill out an ILL form for you.

To Do:

• Install LibKey Nomad browser extension and set to University of Virginia Libraries.
• Set up your Google Scholar settings to connect with University of Virginia Libraries.
• Optional: install VPN on mobile device.

The library can help you when it comes time to meet the SDS Open Access guidelines.

• Our Copyright Team can help you meet the guidelines - for example, figuring out which journals are open access, and what to do if the journal you submit to is not open access. 
  • If the journal is not open access, consider using an Authors' Addendum to retain your rights to share. Learn more on our Retaining and Reclaiming Rights page. It is common for authors to share pre-prints (the version of your article that was submitted for peer review) and Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAMs) (also known as post-prints, the final text version of a paper that has been revised in response to peer review but not yet typeset and formatted by a publisher).
  • Learn about the open access policies of specific journals at Sherpa Romeo.
  • The library has agreements with a few publishers, so that authors can publish open access for free with those publishers.
• Libra, our institutional repository, makes UVA scholarship available to the world and provides safe and secure storage for the scholarly output of the UVA community. Use Libra to openly share your articles, reports, and more.
• Consider using Aperio to start a new open access journal or publish an open monograph.

Find funding with GrantForward, a database of funding opportunities. UVA has a subscription through the VPR's office. Be sure to create your own account (using your virginia.edu email address) to gain access to all features. Reach out to the librarian on this page or to the Research Development Team in the VPR's Office for help.

Need help with data? The library is here to help.

Research Data Services can help you:

• find and access data; 
• manage and organize your data; 
• understand data-related funder requirements and get advice on choosing a data repository; 
• and consult on your data analysis and visualization.

The Scholars' Lab has experts on GIS and text analysis.

Researchers who are applying for a grant that requires a Data Management Plan can use the DMPTool. The DMPTool has templates based on funder requirements. You can submit your responses in DMPTool for review by a Data Management Librarian.

The library offers a local data repository, LibraData. LibraData is a place for UVA researchers to share data publicly and preserve it for the future. You can also publish your code within LibraData and link your GitHub repo to LibraData.

Are you teaching a class? You can take advantage of library services for getting class materials.

We are here to help you teach students how to find and evaluate background documents as supporting evidence in their papers, and to teach students about data literacy and finding data online. Find strategies to discover, evaluate, and manage books and articles to support your claims, via one-on-one consultations or in-class instruction. Do you notice gaps in your students' ability to do literature reviews or search for data? Reach out to the librarian listed on this page with your questions about how a library instruction session can help.

Our librarians are expert searchers. You can partner with us to be sure you are finding the most relevant literature for your research. 

• Use Virgo, the library catalog, to find the books and journals that the library offers.
• Use the Find Background Documents pages in this guide to find the top databases in your field. The Databases page lists all of the databases that we subscribe to.
• If the library does not offer what you are looking for, try Interlibrary Loan or recommend the library make a purchase.

Faculty are eligible for book delivery to their offices - we call this service LEO. 

• Sign up for LEO Delivery.

Publisher-neutral tools - These tools include a broad range of journals from many different publishers.

Publisher-based tools - These tools only recommend journals from within the publisher's title list.

This is the fun bonus content! The library provides access to a few news sites and video streaming services.