Research and Data Services

RDaS is here to provide expertise in information and data management to you, the researcher. We support your needs related to retrieving and organizing the scholarly literature, managing data, finding collaborators, and identifying new digital resources to support scientific research.

Research Services

We can help you with information management by providing support in the following areas:

Information Management

• UVa Library Researcher Portal - useful links for literature searching, finding impact factors, and more. 

Citation Management

• Learn About RefWorks - the library-supported, Web-based citation manager
• More citation management programs

Literature Searching

• Literature Search Service - have a librarian create an expert search strategy 
• Current Awareness - automatically be alerted when new articles in your research area are published

Data Services

Need help managing or sharing data? See:

Writing a Data Management Plan

• NSF Data Management Plan templates

Storing Data

• Security, Storage, and Backups- from the UVa SciDaC

Sharing Data

• Archiving and Sharing Data- from the UVa SciDac