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Isabella Salas-Allende, Neuroscience PhD student, met with a Data & Code Support Service consultant to understand her Python code and interpret the data analysis results for her team’s new model. Read the full story.
“Dr. González-Espinoza was a huge help in getting me started,” Salas-Allende recalled. “His support was incredibly thorough and patient, helping me build a solid foundation for my analysis. I highly recommend students to reach out!”
Eric Yttri, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, collaborated with the Open at CMU team on the inaugural Open Science Symposium in 2019 and more recently has used the Data Management Plan Review Service and worked with STEM Librarian Chasz Griego to incorporate open educational resources into his class. Read the full story in Nature.
“I never really thought of the library being a great resource” beyond access to scientific papers, says Eric Yttri, a neuroscientist at CMU. “But it turns out it’s been pretty great” in supporting his passion for open science."
Laurie Heller, Teaching Professor of Psychology and Director of the Auditory Lab, has been using KiltHub since 2022 to publicly share her research data and materials.
"Kilthub helped me distribute a database of sounds, The Sound Events Database, which I’d recorded. This way of hosting the database allows me to add more sounds as I record them. This database helps the scientific community because it enables other labs to conduct research with these sounds. Plus, those who use my sounds now have a clear way to formally cite the database."
"I was able to use Kilthub many times for many purposes. Every time that I ran into something that didn't seem to be what I wanted, there was always a solution offered by the Kilthub/Library staff in a timely and friendly manner.”
Christopher Phillips, Professor and Head of Department of History, is the founding editor of diamond open access online resource Encyclopedia of the History of Science, published and hosted by the CMU Library Publishing Service (now under the CMU Press).
“I had an idea for an open access, peer reviewed journal that would reach both academics and the wider public. The CMU Library Publishing Service was able to help me take the idea from conception through realization. It's a game changer for how faculty might think about possibilities for public and scholarly engagement. They have provided great tech support behind the scenes for the Encyclopedia of the History of Science but have also helped make sure the user experience is flawless.”