Service Descriptions
This page includes basic service descriptions for liaisons to use as questions come in.
Princeton Research Data Service
PRDS provides support for researchers to store, manage, curate, and preserve digital research data, and to make it publicly available in ways that maximize usability, transparency, and sustainability. Our current primary audience is graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and research support staff.Â
All PRDS services are available remotely:Â
- Virtual consultations are available for questions about open science and research data management practice, services, and tools, including: data documentation, data stewardship, reproducible research practices, publishing and sharing data and code, DMPTool, DataSpace, ORCID, SciENcv, and Code Ocean. To schedule an appointment, go to researchdata.princeton.eduÂ
- Appointments, training videos, and a Research Life-cycle Guide for data management are available at PRDS’s website: researchdata.princeton.edu
- For more information about depositing research data into DataSpace, see the DataSpace section on our website
- Questions can also be directed to prds@princeton.eduÂ
Maps / GIS Service
Data and Statistical Services (DSS)
Data and Statistical Services provides data and statistical consulting. The service is centralized in Firestone Library.
Experts are available to advise Princeton University student, faculty, and staff on choosing appropriate data, application of quantitative research methods, the interpretation of statistical analyses, data conversion, and data visualization. Subject specialists help choose appropriate data. The statistical packages supported by consultants are R/R Studio, Stata, and SPSS. We provide statistical and software assistance in quantitative analysis of electronic data as part of independent research projects, such as junior papers, senior theses, term papers, dissertations, and scholarly articles.
All services are currently offered remotely. To schedule a research consultation, access the data catalog, or consult documentation, please visit the DSS page : https://library.princeton.edu/dss.
Stokes Viz Hub
The Stokes Visualization Hub is a space and service that supports the interdisciplinary digital research and information visualization needs of the Princeton University community. The service is centralized at Stokes Library in Wallace Hall. The service offers data analysis (qualitative and quantitative) and data visualization workshops, as well as data analysis consultation service. Our primary audience is undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences. The service operates during the academic year (usually September through May).
For information about workshops schedule or to schedule a research consultation with one of our consultants please visit the Stoke Viz Hub page.
All Stokes Viz Hub services are currently available remotely.
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Open Access Fund
Open Publishing
Open Access Repository
PicSCiE
Text mining
Bibliometrics
Systematic Reviews
Services outside the Library
McGraw's Digital Learning Lab
The DLL is a space to work on and get help with digital media projects. For faculty, they can aid with designing and planning digital media assignments for courses, and they also have staff who can teach students any technological or production related skills they need to complete the assignments. You can also use their computing resources to work on your own projects.