A monthly series of infographics on research data

The Data Literacy Series (DLS) was officially launched in August 2020. It aims to complement the department's instructional efforts and mission to promote data education and research data management practices. The DLS 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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n.01/2020 - Why should I get an ORCID?
   

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n.02/2020 - Data Citation in a Nutshell
   
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n.03/2020 - The Spectrum of Human Subjects' Privacy
   
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n.04/2020 - Persistent Identifiers Explained
   
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n.05/2020 - Data Deli (RDS Menu) 
   
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n.01/2021 - The Dos and Don'ts of File Naming 
   
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n.02/2021 - UC Love Data Week 
   
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n.03/2021 - README, please! 
   
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n.04/2021 - Be FAIR to your data! 
   
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n.05/2021 - How to choose a Data Repository?
   
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n.06/2021 - How can research data be reused?
 
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n.07/2021 - Why do open formats matter?
   

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n.08/2021 - What should you keep in your project folder?
   
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n.09/2021 - Take full control of file versions!
   
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n.10/2021 - Know Your Rights & Use Data Right!
   
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n.11/2021 - Championing Code Documentation
   
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n.12/2021 - Open Science Community (Data Tools)
   
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n.01/2022 - CARE Principles
   
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n.02/2022 - Make your Citations Permanent with Perma.cc
   
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n.03/2022 - Minding Text Data Mining
   
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n.04/2022 - Meet Dryad!
   
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n.05/2022 - Data Management Planning Made Easy (DMPTool)
   
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n.06/2022 - Data Backup

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n.07/2022 - Cloud Services at UCSB

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n.08/2022 - Handling Missing Data
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n.09/2022 - Our Data Services
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n.10/2022 - Research Data Scares
 

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n.11/2022 - Compressing Files

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n.12/2022 - NIH 2023 Policy At A Glance

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n.01/2023 - Which Graph Should you Choose?
 
n.02/2023 - The Role of Metadata Standards 
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n.03/2023 - Ecological Metadata Language

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n.04-05/2023 - Data Documentation Initiative

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If you’d like to suggest a topic for an upcoming issue, please submit your feedback to rds@library.ucsb.edu.