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Uncle Sam wants you! How you can help the federal government with science

When you hear the word 'scientist,' a particular image comes to mind: an individual donning a white lab coat surrounded by tubes, beakers, and Petri dishes. Perhaps someone with a background of years of schooling and lab hours. But what if I told you that you can be a scientist, regardless of educat...

Close up of male hands writing on a blood sample cylinder from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study NIAD: 824613

Open science and research ethics

Recently, a collection of reproduced documents from the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment became available as a digital collection through the National Library of Medicine. The USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee is notorious for its utter lack of ethics. It started in 1932 and initially involved ...

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New ASU fund helps researchers publish in open access journals

In response to an increasing focus on open access publishing by research funders, the ASU Open Access Publication Fund has been created to help cover publishing costs for ASU affiliates. The new open access fund is supported by the Office of the University Provost and Knowledge Enterprise, with the...

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Overleaf Professional LaTeX editor is now available to the ASU community for their projects

The Knowledge Enterprise at Arizona State University with W.P. Carey School of Business, Fulton Schools of Engineering, and The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences provide Overleaf Professional for all faculty, students, and staff who want to use a collaborative, online LaTeX editor for their proje...

A portion of the map showing the south Pole and the surrounding South Polar Plateau. Latitudinal and longitudinal lines intersect, connecting at the south pole, with a red dot marking the location. Red text denotes USA-1 through USA-5, as well as NZ32-NZ33. Prominent ranges  and geographic locations are labeled in small black text.

Map of the Month: December 2022

Our December Map of the Month is this 1970 map of Antarctica area stations that was prepared for the 1969 expedition of the U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze called “Deep Freeze 70”. It is a complete map of the Antarctic continent that features extensive detail on the locations of all operating and re...

Unit for Data Science and Analytics Fall 2022 Schedule

The Unit for Data Science is a hub for research collaborations and student mentorship. It is a one-of-a-kind resource at ASU Library. Opportunities to get involved and learn about data science are through  a free online Canvas course, a Podcast, and/or attend our open virtu...

Sowing Doubt: Parler

Sowing Doubt: Anti-“Big Tech” Narratives, Parler, and the Alt-Tech Attention Economy

By  Michael Simeone  and Shawn Walker June 1, 2022 It was the spring of 2020, and the presidential election was only a few months away when Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) decided to gamble big on an all-out political offensive. From the start of the 2020 presidential election cycle, there were early sig...

A first distant reading of randomly selected French content (30% sample) using Iramuteq (F. Clavert)

Research Applications with Web Archives: Collaboration Among Archives Unleashed Cohorts

Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash   Web archives present opportunities to explore and enhance our understanding of our digital cultural heritage. After a quarter-century of intentional collection and curation, they offer a br...

Twitter stock price prediction

After analyzing the correlation between Reddit data and stock prices from a blog post, we at the Unit for Data Science and Analytics began to wonder: “What about Twitter data”? We have seen in the past how certain tweets have affected stock prices, for better or for worse. So, we formulated the hypo...