Consultation on how to acquire free data or retrieve data provided by a source (e.g. Library subscriptions, government sponsor, repository).
Data Retrieval
Eligibility information is outlined below based on providers with offerings that are available to the entire Harvard community or a specific unit/appointment.
University-wide
Harvard Library
Digital Scholarship Support Group offers consultations and regular office hours on issues of retrieving data, as well as a series of workshops on more advanced topics, such as web APIs.
Audience
All Harvard affiliates
Service Provider
Digital Scholarship Support Group
Service Fee
None
Service Website
https://dssg.fas.harvard.edu/initiatives/research/
Contact Information
Digital Scholarship Support Group: dssg@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard College Library, Services for Academic Programs
Harvard College Library (SAP) will help Harvard community researchers access licensed data through the Harvard Dataverse infrastructure, as well as legacy formats such as CD-ROM, floppy disk.
Audience
All Harvard community; focus on FAS undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty
Service Provider
Harvard College Library, Services for Academic Programs
Service Fee
None
Service Website
https://library.harvard.edu/collections/data-and-government-information-collections
Contact Information
Hugh Trulslow and Diane Sredi: govdocs@fas.harvard.edu
Unit/Appointment-specific
Baker Library (Harvard Business School)
Baker Library will download, scrape, merge, and clean data provided by disparate sources. Full service for HBS faculty includes:
- Downloading data provided by licensed and publicly available sources
- Batch article searching to capture counts of keywords or article citations
- Scraping data provided by the web
- Pulling historical data provided by disparate electronic and print sources and collating it into databases
- Screening, merging, and subsetting existing data sources excludes surveys and human subjects experiments
Audience
School Faculty
Service Provider
Baker Library
Service Fee
Yes for full service.
Service Website
https://www.library.hbs.edu/Services/Data-Creation-Data-Collection
Contact Information
Alex Caracuzzo: acaracuzzo@hbs.edu
Countway Library (Longwood Medical Area)
Countway Library provides individual and small group consultations to members of the Longwood Medical Area community who have located research data, but need assistance downloading, manipulating, or otherwise acquiring it for their projects.
Audience
- School Faculty
- School Graduate Students
- School Affiliates
Service Provider
Countway Library
Service Fee
None
Service Website
https://countway.harvard.edu/services/publishing-data-services/data-services
Contact Information
Julie Goldman: julie_goldman@hms.harvard.edu
Gutman Library (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
Audience
- School Faculty
- School Graduate Students
- School Affiliates
Service Provider
Gutman Library
Service Fee
None
Service Website
Contact Information
Rebecca Martin: rebecca_martin@gse.harvard.edu
Harvard Kennedy School
Audience
- School Faculty
- Graduate School Fellows
- School Graduate Students
- School Affiliates
Service Provider
Harvard Kennedy School Library
Service Fee
None
Service Website
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/hks/data_resources
Contact Information
Harvard Law School
Audience
- School Faculty
- School Graduate Students
Service Provider
Harvard Law School Library
Service Fee
None
Service Website
Contact Information
- Arevik Avedian: aavedian@law.harvard.edu
- Michelle Pearse: mpearse@law.harvard.edu