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Biomedical Engineering: Start

This guide is designed to provide you with resources for BME research, writing, & publishing.

About This Guide

Here, you will find quick links to help you get started with library resources and highlights of new events, services, and resources from the library that might be of interest to the BME researchers. In the tabs of this guide, you will find resources related to:

OSF for Project Management, Collaboration, and Reproducible Research

Open Science Framework (OSF) is a free & open source project management web-based tool that is useful for:

  • organizing and managing research projects (projects can be private or public) in any discipline
  • viewing files that are stored across a number of platforms (i.e. DropBox, Google Drive, Box) in one place
  • sharing projects or parts of a project with collaborators
  • sharing conference materials
  • student projects
  • pre-registering a study
  • publishing a pre-print

 

CMU now has an institutional license for OSF. Use your Andrew email address to sign-up for OSF to take advantage of our institutional benefits including:

  • the ability to showcase your project on our CMU landing page if you choose
  • single sign-on
  • increased security

 

If you are interested in learning more about OSF or need help, you can read our OSF guide or contact CMU's OSF coordinators: Melanie Gainey (mgainey@andrew.cmu.edu) and Ana Van Gulick (anavangulick@cmu.edu).

 

Upcoming Conference at CMU

Supported by the NSF scientific data reuse initiative, AIDR (Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse) 2019 is a conference being held at CMU this spring.

At this conference, you will:

  • Meet world leaders in AI, scientific computing, and data management
  • Join the conversation on harnessing the power of AI for scientific data discovery and reuse
  • Connect innovations in AI with research data management

The conference program committee invites submissions for presentations and panels that address applications of AI/ML to challenges related to the discovery, reuse and management of data across disciplinary domains. Innovative algorithms, tools and platforms, successful use cases, and biomedical applications are of great interest. 

 

Find information about submitting an abstract here. The submission deadline is February 1st, 2019.

 

Biological Sciences Librarian

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Melanie Gainey
Contact:
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412-268-3171

KiltHub

 

A new option for sharing data and other research products, CMU's comprehensive institutional repository: KiltHub

Why share? Increasingly, funding agencies and journals are requiring that researchers make their data publicly available. 

Sharing data and metadata can be a good option even if not required. Sharing data can:

  • increase the visibility of one's research
  • drive data reuse
  • increase transparency and facilitate the reproducibility of research 
  • foster collaboration

 

How do I share? There are a number of great options for making data available, including:

  • government-sponsored repositories
  • discipline-specific repositories
  • our own institutional figshare-powered platform at CMU, Kilthub. 

 

If you are interested in depositing any of your research products (i.e. data sets, conference posters, dissertations, or publications) to Kilthub, find more info here or contact Melanie Gainey (mgainey@andrew.cmu.edu).

Research Competitions

Challenge.gov: members of the public compete to help the U.S. government solve problems big and small. Browse through challenges and submit your ideas for a chance to win.