The Libraries can support teaching and student learning in many ways and formats. The Library Teaching Menu describes the different ways we can create customized content for your courses. Please reach out to Haoyong, Jimmy or Sarah for more information or to request support.
The Libraries can purchase e-books and can digitize print material that we have in the collections to make class resources available for your students. Please get in touch with our course reserves teams as early as possible to ensure sufficient time for setting up course materials for the semester. For more information about course reserves, visit this page.
Sage Campus provides access to a growing collection of online courses on introductory skills and research methods including critical thinking, data literacy, research design, R and Python, statistical methods and more. NOTE: You must create an account using your CMU email address. If you are an instructor, please contact Sarah Young to upgrade your account in order to manage student cohorts.
CMU's Center for Behavioral and Decision Research sponsors a university membership to CARMA (the Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis). CARMA provides webinars from leading industry methodologists in the social and organizational sciences. To access their content, go to CARMA and create a free account using your andrew.cmu.edu email address.
Carnegie Mellon Libraries offer university-wide premium licenses for Dataquest, the scaffolded online learning platform with a full catalog of interactive courses; skill paths such as data visualization, machine learning, and data scraping and career paths using Python, R, Power BI, and Tableau. You learn by doing, completing exercises and getting immediate feedback directly. To activate your premium account, please complete the form using the link above.
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The Libraries offer many online workshops from conducting literature reviews to data visualization and management, using tools like R and Python, and more. Check out our list of workshops and register at the CMU Libraries workshop page.
The CMU Libraries is also a member of The Carpentries, a global organization and community of teachers and learners to build computational and data science capacity. We offer 2-3 day online Software and Data Carpentries trainings on R, Python, Git, Shell and other computational tools throughout the year. Please get in touch if you are interested in learning about upcoming offerings.
The University Libraries offer Data Services and Research Consultations! These office hours provide in-person or virtual consultations to students, staff, faculty, and researchers in Pittsburgh. Library specialists are available to help at any point across the research data lifecycle, which includes data collecting, cleaning, structuring and integration, data management, data analysis, coding in R and Python, data sharing, and scholarly communications. Book a virtual appointment!