Two Data Management @ UT informational sessions were held on February 19, 2014. The goal of the informational sessions was to inform grants administrators, researchers, faculty, and students about requirements and best practices for writing a data management plan, along with presenting resources available on campus for data management.
The PowerPoint slides from the presentation are available here.
Joseph Cohen and Henry Lo, PhD students working at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, have launched the torrent site, AcademicTorrents. Cohen and Lo hope the site will allow researchers to easily share their work and data with people around the world.
Link to an announcement about the site’s launch: http://torrentfreak.com/academics-launch-torrent-site-to-share-papers-and-datasets-140131/
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