Love Data Week, set for Feb. 9 to 13, is an international celebration of all things data.

Each year, the Data and Bioinformation Services team at the Health Sciences and Human Services Library engages the university community on topics such as data management, sharing, wrangling, and visualization, as well as open and reproducible science.

This year’s theme is “Where’s the Data?,” which encourages us to think about data’s journey from collection through storage and preservation.

Join us for the events below.

Where’s the Data? Finding and Accessing Research Data at UMB

Date and time: Wednesday, Feb. 11, noon to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Registration: Register for the session (opens in a new window)

Need to access clinical or administrative data for research but not sure where to start? After a brief overview of HSHSL-supported data resources, this virtual session will feature experts from ICTR and PRC to explain the process of requesting UMMS EPIC data and administrative claims datasets.

This session is ideal for faculty, students engaged in research, and research staff. Accessing data does not have to be a mystery.

Speakers:

• Amy Yarnell, MLS
  Head of Data and Bioinformation Services, Health Sciences and Human Services Library
• Eberechukwu Onukwugha, PhD
  Professor; Executive Director, Pharmaceutical Research Computing Center; Department of Practice, Sciences, and Health Outcomes Research; University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
• Wanda Hill, MS, BSN, RN
  Director of Operations, UMB Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

Data and Doughnuts

Date and time: Thursday, Feb. 12, 10 a.m. to noon
Location: HSHSL first floor

Stop by our table to grab a doughnut and chat with the HSHSL Data Services team. Then from 11 a.m. to noon, visit the HSHSL Positivi-tree and celebrate self-care for Valentine’s Day.

Managing Your Qualitative Data with the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR)

Date and time: Thursday, Feb.12, 1 to 2 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Registration: Register for the session (opens in a new window)

In this webinar, researchers will explore options for sharing qualitative data, with a special focus on the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR), to which the University of Maryland, Baltimore has an institutional membership. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of qualitative data sharing norms and practices across the social, health, and other human focused sciences.

The session will highlight practical steps researchers can take to keep qualitative materials organized throughout any project, which also can support future archiving and re use of the materials they collect. QDR’s Associate Director will further showcase examples of nuanced data sharing approaches from current published data projects, including sensitive data secured under different levels of access control, will demonstrate how the deposit process at the repository works, and highlight data available for pedagogical purposes as well.

This webinar is intended for faculty, students, and staff who are using qualitative or multi method techniques. It is especially useful for those preparing data management or data sharing plans (DMPs or DMSPs) for federal or private foundation funding applications.

Speaker: Dessislava Kirilova, Associate Director, Qualitative Data Repository

Caption the Chart Challenge

Dates: Feb. 9 to 13
Location: HSHSL

Find one of our chart displays around the HSHSL and try your hand at writing a creative and funny caption.

Questions? Contact: Amy Yarnell, Head of Data and Bioinformation Services ayarnell@hshsl.umaryland.edu 

The HSHSL is celebrating International Open Access (OA) Week with a five-day challenge designed to improve discovery of your scholarly work! Each day we will email you with a brief but meaningful activity, including: 

• Creating an ORCiD and connecting it to your Scopus author profile 
• Locating OA journals in your research area 
• Learning about repositories and data sharing 
• Utilizing MyNCBI 

If you complete any of the activities and fill out our evaluation survey at the end of the challenge, you will be entered to win some library swag! 

Sign up to receive daily challenges from October 20-24, 2025.

If you want to learn more about how the HSHSL supports Open Access, visit the Open Access LibGuide.

Contact publishing@hshsl.umaryland.edu with questions.

Love Data Week (Feb. 10 to 14) is an international celebration of all things data! Each year, the Data and Bioinformation Services team at the Health Sciences and Human Services Library looks forward to engaging the University on issues like data management, sharing, wrangling, and visualization, as well as open and reproducible science. 

This year’s theme is “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?” which asks us to consider “who owns data compared to who uses data” and to think about “where the data came from before using it.” 

Check out the week’s events below: 

• Join us for virtual Data Management Planning Office Hours on Tuesday, Feb. 11, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. to ask your specific data management and sharing questions. Zoom link
• Talk with librarians about data services at our pop-up table at your school during the week of Feb. 10 (schedule below).  Come and learn about data and bioinformation services at the HSHSL and grab a piece (or three) of candy! 
  • School of Pharmacy – Monday, Feb. 10, Noon to 1 p.m. (Atrium) 
  • [CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER] School of Dentistry – Tuesday, Feb. 11, Noon to 1 p.m. (Ground Floor) 
  • [CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER] School of Nursing – Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2 to 3 p.m. (1st Floor Lobby)  
  • School of Social Work – Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 11:15 a.m to 12:15 p.m. (Atrium) 
  • School of Medicine – Thursday, Feb. 13 at Noon to 1 p.m. (Bressler Lobby) 
• Gear up for Valentine’s Day by celebrating at the HSHSL on Thursday, Feb. 13, 9:30 to 11 a.m.! Join us on the 1st Floor to grab a doughnut and coffee, talk about your data needs, and participate in a special self-care activity in the Weise Gallery.

Looking for more ways to participate? 

• Visit the UMB Data Catalog. Explore the great research being done at UMB. Talk to us about cataloging your datasets! For more on the Data Catalog check out this video introduction! 
• Adopt a Dataset or attend a webinar with ICPSR, the official Love Data Week organizers and an excellent place to find data! Visit their site for more information. 
• Join our friends at the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) throughout the week for their series of workshops on topics including tools for finding and sharing data, data visualizations in Excel, and From Data to Knowledge to Equitable Health Transformation in the Age of AI. (Note: You must sign up for a free NNLM account to register).
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Don’t forget to follow the HSHSL and Love Data Week on social media! #LoveData25 #UMBLovesData 

Questions? Contact Amy Yarnell, Head of Data and Bioinformation Services, and Christine Nieman Hislop, Data Services Librarian at data@hshsl.umaryland.edu. 

Every month, we will be highlighting new datasets added to the UMB Data Catalog. The UMB Data Catalog facilitates discovery of data by providing a searchable and browsable collection of records describing datasets generated by UMB researchers. Sharing a record of your data in the Catalog is also a great way to demonstrate compliance with data sharing policies!

These latest records showcase data on opioid treatment availability, COVID-19 misinformation on TikTok, and immune response in HIV-infected patients.

Congrats to our UMB researchers on these publications!

Title:  County-level factors associated with a mismatch between opioid overdose mortality and availability of opioid treatment facilities
Description: Identifies characteristics of United States (US) counties with high rates of opioid overdose mortality and low rates of opioid treatment facilities.
Authors: John G. Rizk, Jannat Saini, Kyungha Kim, Uzma Pathan, Danya M. Qato
URL: https://datacatalog.hshsl.umaryland.edu/dataset/224

Title: #Coronavirus on TikTok: user engagement with misinformation as a potential threat to public health behavior
Description: Examines factors associated with user engagement with COVID-related misinformation on the social media platform, TikTok.
Authors: Jonathan D. Baghdadi, K.C. Coffey, Rachael Belcher, James Frisbie, Naeemul Hassan, Danielle Sim, Rena D. Malik
URL: https://datacatalog.hshsl.umaryland.edu/dataset/225

Title:  IFNa induces CCR5 in CD4+ T cells of HIV patients causing pathogenic elevation
Description: Investigates whether elevated circulating interferon-alpha (IFNα) promotes widespread immune cell alterations and persists post-therapy, furthering understanding of why non-elite controller (EC) HIV patients continue to need treatment.
Authors: Hélène Le Buanec, Valérie Schiavon, Marine Merandet, Alexandre How-Kit, Hongshuo Song, David Bergerat, Céline Fombellida-Lopez, Armand Bensussan, Jean-David Bouaziz, Arsène Burny, Gilles Darcis, Mohammad M. Sajadi, Shyamasundaran Kottilil, Daniel Zagury, Robert C. Gallo
URL: https://datacatalog.hshsl.umaryland.edu/dataset/226

Thanks to Metadata Librarian, Eva Greitzer for creating and compiling these records!

Want to see your data listed in the UMB Data Catalog? Submit this form to get the process started.

Questions? Email us at data@hshsl.umaryland.edu.