Research & Collections

February 13, 2020

Love Data Week 2020: Data Comes in Many Forms

While most people think of “data” as a numeric value, data can be pretty much anything. In the last decade, there’s been an uptick of exciting computational approaches to humanities …

February 12, 2020

Love Data Week 2020: GIS Resources Available at the Library

Have you looked at your data from a geographic perspective? Geospatial technologies enable us to acquire earth-referenced data and use it for analysis, modeling, simulations and visualization. Geospatial technologies allow …

February 6, 2020

Cambridge Structural Database 2020 Now Available

The 2020 version of the Cambridge Structural Data System (CSDS) is available for downloading. You can download it from the the UC CSDS distribution site at UCLA or directly from …

February 3, 2020

Love Data Week 2020 Kicks off Next Week

Next week is Love Data Week, an international event meant to celebrate and educate about data. Each day next week, look for a new blog post highlighting a data-related resource …

January 21, 2020

Resources Spotlight: Impeachment

Interested in learning more about presidential impeachment? Impeachment: A Handbook by Charles L. Black, Jr. with new materials by Philip Bobbitt is now available on JSTOR. Lawfare’s blog has a free …

Cover of Plastic Soup
January 14, 2020

Popular Science Reading – January 2020

Here are the first additions to the popular science collection for 2020, including Why Trust Science? from Naomi Oreskes, formerly Professor of History and Science Studies at UC San Diego. You …