UNC Libraries Research Hub
The UNC Libraries Research Hub provides welcoming, technology-enabled environments where Carolina researchers can advance their work and collaborate across the University. The Research Hub partners with and assists researchers at every stage of the research process.
At every Research Hub location, skilled librarians, technology specialists, and campus partners welcome inquiries from researchers at all levels. Faculty members, research staff, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates will find:
- Skilled librarians and technology specialists, ready to work with you
- Training, guidance, and connection with other campus resources
- Equipment and software to integrate new digital methods into your work
- Technology-rich spaces for consultation, creation, and presentation
- Events that showcase faculty and student research activities
- Opportunities for colleagues across and beyond campus to connect with one another
Resources
The Research Hub offers the following compliance-related activities and resources:
- NIH Biosketch and Federal Public Access Policy Compliance – The Health Sciences Library Research Hub offers classes, guides, consultations and forthcoming instructional video to provide on demand alternative to in-person classes on NIH biosketch construction and on compliance with NIH and other relevant federal agency public access policies. The Carolina Population Center Library and Kenan Research Hub & Makerspace provides guidance in these areas as well. This support will continue to expand to include compliance help with additional federal agency public access policies as these agencies implement and begin to enforce their policies for data and publications. (Health Sciences Library Research Hub; Carolina Population Center Library; Kenan Research Hub & Makerspace)
- UNC Open Access Policy, Author Rights and Other Scholarly Communications Issues – The UNC Libraries Scholarly Communications Officer provides guidance, policy development, and advocacy to faculty, students, and staff on copyright and fair use, authors’ rights, privacy rights, open access, and policy related to scholarly material. (Davis Library Hub)
- Data management planning, plans, data use agreements, guidance on data storage and repository options for complying with those requirements for federal agencies across the disciplines. (Davis/Health Sciences/Kenan Research Hubs, Odum Institute)
- Data repositories for sharing data:
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI) minting for UNC-Chapel Hill research outputs to help meet federal agency deposit and reporting requirements. Libraries Carolina Digital Repository and Odum Institute mint DOIs and host products of research.
- Animal alternatives search strategies for IACUC applications dealing with covered species (Health Sciences Library Research Hub, Kenan Research Hub & Makerspace)
- ORCID – researcher ID required by some journals and a few funding agencies worldwide, though not yet by most major US funders or UNC’s primary funding agencies. (Davis/Health Sciences/Kenan Research Hubs)
- Broader Impacts – Consultations using National Alliance of Broader Impacts (NABI) Guiding Principles and Questions (Kenan Research Hub & Makerspace)