Research Informatics and Publishing

The Department of Research Informatics and Publishing enhances the technology-driven teaching and research capacity of the Penn State community. We partner with students, faculty, and staff to consult, provide training, and support projects in the areas of research data management, digital humanities, mapping, statistical analysis, and open publishing.

Our services are based on the tenets of openness, innovation and technology, collaboration, and supporting the entire research workflow.

 

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Services

Data Analysis & Visualization

Supports users with GIS, mapping, data creation, data wrangling (subsetting, transforming, and/or manipulating data), quantitative data analysis including statistical modeling, quantitative text analysis, and data visualization.

Data Discovery & Reuse

Assistance with identifying data sources including discipline-specific data repositories and databases available through the University Libraries; how to clean, subset, or merge data from different sources; citing data sources; and handling restricted data.

Data Management & Sharing

Support and training for data management and sharing including data management plan (DMP) review services, assistance implementing your DMP, support for selecting an appropriate data repository, and open scholarly work and data sharing and curation via ScholarSphere.

Digital Publishing

Support for open access journal publishing, digital monograph and searchable annotated bibliography hosting, OA monograph subventions through TOME, and OER hosting through ROAM.

Units

Center for Black Digital Research (CBDR)

The Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk is a public-facing research center committed to bringing the histories of early Black organizing to digital life through innovative scholarship and collaborative partnerships. The Center is home to the award-winning Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, and the Black Women’s Organizing Archive. Learn more at the CBDR website.

Data Learning Center

Support and training for data management, data analysis, data visualization, open data sharing, and ScholarSphere.

Digital Humanities

Support and training for data management, analysis, and visualization for the humanities.

Donald W. Hamer Center for Maps & Geospatial Information

Promotes and facilitates the use of maps and geospatial information in research, teaching, and learning.

Open Publishing

Supports open access journals, bibliographies, topical web portals, monographs, and OER resources hosting through ROAM.

Digital Projects

A gallery of our more notable digital projects.

Training and Events

Free workshops and trainings designed to help you with your research needs.

Department Contact Information

W313 Pattee Library
University Park, PA 16802

John Russell

Interim Head of Research Informatics and Publishing

Research Informatics and Publishing Staff

Name Title Email Office Phone
Tara L Anthony Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist tll38@psu.edu 814-863-5753
Sarah Bodnar Part-Time Open Publishing Accessibility and Production Assistant snb5494@psu.edu 814-865-2095
Laura Bowman Part-Time Data Management Assistant ljb5065@psu.edu 814-865-2095
Zicheng Cheng Graduate Assistant zvc5199@psu.edu 814-865-2095
Lauren Cooper CBDR Research Librarian lrc5405@psu.edu 814-865-2010
Guanlin He Graduate Assistant gbh5146@psu.edu 814-865-2095
Ally Laird Open Publishing Program Coordinator ams1130@psu.edu 814-865-2095
Angel Peterson Open Publishing Production Specialist anb149@psu.edu 814-865-2486
Heather Ross Map Specialist hdr10@psu.edu 814-863-1349
John E Russell Interim Head of Research Informatics and Publishing jer308@psu.edu 814-865-2095
Alexandra Shoffner Part-Time Staff avs5190@psu.edu 814-865-2095
Jennifer Valcin Statistician jpv5319@psu.edu 814-865-2095
Corey Wetherington Open Education Infrastructure Specialist cjw36@psu.edu 814-865-2095
Briana Ezray Wham Research Data Librarian - STEM bde125@psu.edu 814-865-2095
Claire Williams Open Publishing Program Intern cew5641@psu.edu 814-865-2095