UCLA Library Blogs

IEEE Authorship Workshop 9/30 at 12pm

303463147 — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:47:09 +0000

Who "Owns" Your Data?

303463147 — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:14:16 +0000

Which of these is true?

“The PI owns the data.”

“The university owns the data.”

“Nobody can own it; data isn’t copyrightable.”

You’ve probably heard somebody say at least one of these things — confidently. Maybe you’ve heard all of them. Maybe about the same dataset (but in that case, hopefully not from the same person). So who really owns research data? Well, the short answer is “it depends.”

A longer answer is that determining ownership (and whether there’s even anything to own) can be frustratingly complicated — and, even when obvious, ownership only determines some of what can be done with data. Other things like policies, contracts, and laws may dictate certain terms in circumstances where ownership isn’t relevant — or even augment or overrule an owner where it is. To avoid an unpleasant surprise about what you can or can’t do with your data, you’ll want to plan ahead and think beyond the simple question of ownership.

This is a long post. Here’s a quick roadmap of what’s ahead:

2016 SEL Graduate Student Resource Fair

303463147 — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 18:05:12 +0000

Are you a new science and engineering graduate student? Drop by our Research Commons on 9/22 to learn more about the library! Meet your subject librarian, learn about subject specific research resources, take a tour, ask about data management, and more! We will also have snacks and vendor swag!

Genevieve Haugen: Woman with Wings

400572969 — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:30:12 +0000

blog post by Melissa Haley

The newly-processed Genevieve Haugen Papers (Collection 1967) combines two prominent elements of local history: aviation and movie-making.

The high-flying Haugen (1911-1968) received her pilot’s license in 1932 at the age of 20. Her flight logbook documents the action as she barrel rolls and loops around Los Angeles, giving numerous friends and strangers their first airplane rides along the way.

Haugen was a member of the Ninety-Nines, an organization of women aviators founded in 1929 and still active today.

Photo taken at the National Air Races in Los Angeles, 1933. Haugen stands in the back row, far right. Note Amelia Earhart first row, far left.

In 1935 Haugen published Women with Wings: A Novel of the Modern Day Aviatrix, which was later adapted for the screen as the 20th Century Fox film Tail Spin (1939). Haugen served as a technical advisor for the film. In this photo she coaches Tail Spin’s star Alice Faye (right), who played the fictional aviator, Trixie Lee.

Anniversary of the 1st Moonlanding and Moonwalks: Biomed Library Mini-Exhibit

303463147 — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 20:11:33 +0000

A mini-exhibit in the 1^st floor lobby/research commons of the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library will be in place later today, showing an SEL-purchased limited-edition book from the Engineering Special Collections component of History & Special Collections for the Sciences.

Norman Mailer’s “Moonfire: the epic journey of Apollo 11” (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009) is available (except this coming week) in our reading room.

“Illustrating this volume are hundreds of the best photographs and maps from the NASA vaults, magazine archives, and private collections. Many of them previously unpublished, these images document the development of the agency and the mission, life inside the Command Module and on the Moon's surface, and the world's jubilant reaction to the landing. This edition includes an original introduction by Colum McCann and captions by leading Apollo 11 experts explaining the history and science behind the images, citing the mission log and publications of the day and postflight astronaut interviews" –Inside cover.

The book is accompanied by a signed portrait of Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon. The book is packaged in a custom-molded white resin box with a convex Plexiglas window which is meant to make one think of a window on a space capsule.

An “Open the (Exhibit) Case” opportunity to view this item close-up will be held in the lobby/research commons of the Biomedical Library at noon on Thursday, July 21st. Please join us then!

Tales from the Archive: Our Year at the CFPRT

400572969 — Thu, 19 May 2016 16:53:43 +0000

Q & A with Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT) scholars, Kim Calder, Caitlin Denny, and Melanie Jones --- creators of this blog post

Kim Calder, Ph.D. candidate in English

What collections have you worked on for 2015-2016?

I’ve been working solely with the Wanda Coleman Papers. The collection is quite large—it arrived as about 100 file folder boxes packed to the brim! Coleman saved all of her correspondence (even her rejection slips), and was unbelievably prolific in many genres: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, theater, film, television, and spoken word. In addition to her literary career, she was also a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and won an Emmy for her writing on Days of Our Lives!

[UCLA Special Collections, Wanda Coleman Papers, Collection 2282]

How long did it take you to complete each collection?

I’ve been working with the Coleman Papers since late October 2015, and I expect I’ll finish it sometime this summer.

What's the coolest item you've found while archiving?

It’s hard to decide, but I was particularly excited to find flyers for some of Coleman’s performances with Exene Cervenka of legendary LA punk band X. They recorded a CD together and drove up the West coast together on a mini-tour. I love this glimpse into the intersection of the spoken word and punk scenes in 1980s Los Angeles!

[UCLA Special Collections, Wanda Coleman Papers, Collection 2282]

What's the most surprising thing someone has wanted filed?

Research Data Matters video

303463147 — Thu, 12 May 2016 21:17:33 +0000

The UC Libraries have created a video to communicate the importance of good research data management practices composed of the voices and testimonials of UC researchers.

Viewers are encouraged to complete a brief feedback survey, linked to at the end of the video, and available here: http://guides.lib.ucr.edu/uclibrariesdataservices/feedback

NCBI to assist UC Davis in June hackathon

303463147 — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 21:47:50 +0000

From June 13th to 15th, NCBI will assist the University of California Davis in hosting a biomedical data science hackathon at the School of Veterinary Medicine in Davis, CA, focusing on advanced bioinformatics analysis of next generation sequencing data and metadata. This event is for students, postdocs, investigators and other researchers already engaged in the use of pipelines for genomic analyses from next-generation sequencing data or metadata.*

*Some projects are available to other non-scientific developers, mathematicians or librarians.

Researchers and/or data scientists from the west coast of the United States are especially encouraged to apply, but the event is open to anyone selected for the hackathon, and able to travel to Davis. Working groups of 5-6 individuals will be formed into five or six teams. These teams will build pipelines and tools to analyze large datasets within a cloud infrastructure. The potential subjects for this iteration are:

Medical informatics
Cancer immunogenicity
Workflow languages
Sequencing contamination
Metagenomics
Metadata
Closing bacterial genomes

Please see the application for specific team projects.

Organization

After a brief organizational session, teams will spend three days analyzing a challenging set of scientific problems related to a group of datasets. Participants will analyze and combine datasets in order to work on these problems.

Datasets

Datasets will come from the public repositories housed at the NCBI. During the course, participants will have an opportunity to include other datasets and tools for analysis. Please note, if you use your own data during the course, we ask that you submit it to a public database within six months of the end of the event.

Products

All pipelines and other scripts, software and programs generated in this course will be added to a public GitHub repository designed for that purpose. A manuscript outlining the design and usage of the software tools constructed by each team will be submitted to an appropriate journal.

Paulist Productions at UCLA

400572969 — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:30:31 +0000

Blog post author: Doug Johnson

In 1960, Catholic priest Ellwood “Bud” Kieser founded Paulist Productions in Westwood, with the idea of producing television shows that would communicate Christian values in an engaging and ecumenical manner. He developed the program Insight, which would be syndicated nationwide, enticing broadcasters with free programming that would satisfy the rather vague “public interest” requirement dictated by the FCC.

Amongst the various issues Insight would address was premarital sex, and, naturally enough, Kieser looked to his neighborhood institution of higher learning for inspiration. The hormonal hotbed of UCLA’s coeducational campus offered a perfect setting for an exploration of a young couple’s yearnings. The script for “The Perennial Problem” (1962) identifies UCLA by name, and stages its characters’ courtship amidst some of the campus’s most recognizable buildings.

Happily, they find a way to maintain control, and are able to graduate with their virtue more or less intact.

The next year, Paulist Productions would return to campus for “The Sophomore” (1963). This time, though, the setting was supposed to be generic, a symbol of a large university rather than a specific place. In the screenwriter’s initial conception, the school is a vast, overwhelming place, where all the professors are men—brilliant, brilliant men. Fortunately, someone thought better of that last point.

Though UCLA was going incognito, it remains recognizable to anyone familiar with Royce Hall, at least.

Eagle-eyed viewers unfamiliar with the campus might still spot evidence of its identity on a bulletin board.

Getting Started with Maps and Timelines for Course Projects

004246084 — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:14:24 +0000

Want to incorporate a map or a timeline into your research paper or project? Looking for a tool that you can use to organize your research or creative work by places or periods of time? There are quite a few different options. Here are a few tools that are great for getting started and exploring the possibilities.

Google My Maps

Google’s “My Maps” feature lets you quickly add simple text and images to a map. You can drop specific points on a map, draw shapes to define regions, and even draw lines to define routes.