A monthly series of infographics on research data

Published by the Library's Research Data Services (RDS) department, the Data Literacy Series (DLS) are visually-compelling one-page handouts that break down complex and important data-related topics. DLS complement the RDS's instructional efforts and mission to promote data education and research data management practices. The handouts are distributed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. If you’d like to suggest a topic for an upcoming issue, please submit your feedback to rds@library.ucsb.edu.

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The Spectrum of Human Subjects' Privacy

There are different levels of data protection and different strategies for stripping out identifiers that could directly or indirectly re-identify subjects and produce inadvertent harm to them.

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TAGS: Human Subjects, Data Privacy, Sensitive Data, De-Identification, Confidentiality
DATE: 03-2020


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Data Citation in a Nutshell

Learn how to attribute data sources and receive credit for your data.

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TAGS: Data Attribution, Citation Styles, Citation
DATE: 02-2020


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Why should you get an ORCID?

The Open Researcher and Contributor ID is an individual 16-digit identifier that connects researchers to their intellectual outputs.

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TAGS: ORCID, Scholar ID, Persistent Identifiers
DATE: 01-2020