GIS & Digital Mapping
Sarah Watson's introductory guide offering resources for projects involving GIS, digital mapping, and geospatial technologies.
ICPSR: In-Depth Research Guide
Margie Ruppel's detailed guide to ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research): a data resource for University of Kentucky faculty, students and staff.
Research Data Services at UK
UK Libraries' guide on Resources and information to help you get started with data management, data preservation, and data sharing.
Research Methods & Protocols
Research Methods & Protocols
Guide covers research methods, research design, statistical methods, research ethics and research protocols for a vast range of disciplines.
Research & Teaching Resources:
Open Educational Resources
Adrian Ho's guide about UK Libraries' Alternative Textbook Program. It also provides an overview of free online peer-reviewed textbooks and offers assistance with finding and adapting them for courses.
Publishing, Research, & Scholarly Communication
Adrian Ho's guide on resources supporting the research process. Brings together apps, data tools, library collections, and scholarly communication resources.
A set of best practices for reusable data, including (among many): protocols, data conventions, and descriptive principles. Although these guidelines for creating data packages focus on Dryad specifically, many of the stated principles apply universally.
DataCite is a non-profit organization that provides persistent identifiers (DOIs) for research data. UK Libraries is a DataCite member and registers DOIs for datasets posted to UKnowledge.