Dataverse is UNC Charlotte’s local data depository. The UNC Charlotte Dataverse Network was created through a partnership between Atkins Library and the Odum Institute at UNC Chapel Hill. Founded in 1924, the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science supports the teaching and research mission of social science at UNC and contains one of the oldest and largest catalog of machine-readable data in the U.S.
UNC Charlotte Atkins Library’s Dataverse Network is available to publish, share, reference, extract, and analyze research data for our faculty and graduate students. Dataverse facilitates making data available to others: researchers and data authors get credit; publishers and distributors get credit; affiliated institutions get credit. Each Dataverse contains studies or collections of studies, and each study contains cataloging information that describes the data plus the actual data files and complementary files.
Dataverse has been used by UNC Charlotte researchers to aid in their own research. Tengteng Cai, Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy at UNC Charlotte writes,
“I would definitely recommend this tool to other researchers in and beyond my discipline. Open data removes barriers to access knowledge and promotes the knowledge spreading and sharing. It also helps researchers to connect to a wider audience, and furthermore, encourages the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaboration and reproducibility.”
In addition, Dr. Paul Fitchett, Assistant Dean of Teaching and Innovation and Professor in the Cato College of Education, gave an interview about his experience using Dataverse.
Please check out Atkins Library’s Data Services page for more information about Dataverse and to learn how to deposit your own data. You can also contact Atkins Library’s Data Librarian, Reese Manceaux for one-on-one help.