Andrew currently coordinates research data management (RDM) education initiatives
for the Lamar Soutter Library of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He works
on a variety of the library's science, eScience and scientific data management
outreach projects. He has also been involved with many of the library's
international outreach projects, including the rehabilitation of the University of
Liberia's medical college library. Andrew first joined the library staff in 2009 as
an intern on the eScience Portal project. He holds a degree in Biology and is a graduate
of Virginia Tech's School of Education and Simmons College Graduate School of
Library and Information Science. His research interests include international library
models for teaching research data management and providing RDM services. 

Teaching Schedule Spring 2013 

LIS 532-01G Scientific Data Management, Wednesdays 13.00-16.00 

Course Website:
https://sites.google.com/a/vt.edu/scientific-research-data-management-simmons/

Articles

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A Sample of Research Data Curation and Management Courses (with Myrna E. Morales, Donna Kafel, Javier Crespo, and Elaine R. Martin), Journal of eScience Librarianship (2012)
 

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An Assessment of Needed Competencies to Promote the Data Curation and Management Librarianship of Health Sciences and Science and Technology Librarians in New England (with Myrna E. Morales, Javier Crespo, Donna Kafel, and Elaine R. Martin), Journal of eScience Librarianship (2012)
 

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Building an e-Science Portal for Librarians: A Model of Collaboration (with Donna Kafel, Myrna E. Morales, Robert J. Vander Hart, Sally A. Gore, Javier Crespo, and Elaine R. Martin), Journal of eScience Librarianship (2012)
 

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Assessment of health sciences and science and technology librarian e-science educational needs to develop an e-science web portal for librarians (with Myrna E. Morales, Javier Crespo, Donna Kafel, and Elaine Russo Martin), Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA (2011)
 

Popular Press

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Crossing That Bridge We Have Come to: Teaching Students How to Manage Qualitative Data. A Conversation with Professor Julie McLeod and Susan Childs about DATUM for Health and DATUM: Research Data Management at Northumbria University (UK), e-Science Community (2013)
 

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Creating an Online Research Data Management Course: A Conversation with Data Librarians Robin Rice and Stuart Macdonald at Edinburgh University Data Library (UK), e-Science Community (2012)
 

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Defining eScience Librarianship, e-Science Community (2012)
 

Other

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Constructing Interpretive and Integrated Teaching Case Studies for Research Data Management (with Donna Kafel RN MLS, Nancy R. LaPelle PhD, and Elaine R. Martin DA) (2013)
 

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Research Data Management Teaching Case: Studying Vitamin D as an Augmentation of Treatment for Bipolar Depression (with Wendy K. Marsh MD) (2013)
 

Presentations

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Implementing a Case-Based Research Data Management Curriculum (with Donna Kafel, Nancy R. LaPelle, and Elaine R. Martin), University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium (2013)
 

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Building an e-Science Portal for Librarians: A Model of Collaboration (with Donna Kafel, Myrna E. Morales, Robert Vander Hart, Sally A. Gore, Javier Crespo, and Elaine R. Martin), University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium (2011)
 

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Data Curation and Management Competencies of New England Region Health Sciences and Science and Technology Librarians (with Myrna E. Morales, Javier Crespo, Donna Kafel, and Elaine Russo Martin), University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium (2011)
 

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Assessment of Biomedical and Science Librarian E-science Learner and User Needs to Develop an E-science Web Portal and Support Library and Institutional E-science Initiatives and Collaborations (with Myrna Morales, Javier Crespo, Donna Kafel, and Elaine Russo Martin), Medical Library Association Annual Meeting (2010)