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Dataverse: A Free, Hosted Solution For Social Sciences Data, Linda Eells, Julie Kelly, Amy West

Library Technology Conference

Scientists are being asked to keep and share their research data, and librarians are beginning to have a role in the curation of that data. Working with a small economics association, the librarians who coordinate AgEcon Search worked with the data services librarian at the University of Minnesota to select Dataverse (http://thedata.org/, hosted at Harvard) for the data related to the association’s journal. Dataverse is free, has good documentation, and is optimized for social sciences data. This poster presentation will give the reasons for our selection of Dataverse and give an overview of our implementation of this project.