Publications & Presentations

The Research Data Service is deeply committed to continual research and education on research data management services and related topics. These selected publications and presentations from our team members provide more detail about our work.

Illinois Data Bank

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  • Fallaw, Colleen, Genevieve Schmitt, Hoa Luong, Jason Colwell, and Jason Strutz. “Institutional Data Repository Development, a Moving Target.” Code4Lib Journal, no. 51, (2021). https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15821. (Dataset for this article)
  • Luong, Hoa, Colleen Fallaw, Genevieve Schmitt, Susan Braxton, and Heidi J. Imker. “Responding to Reality: Evolving Curation Practices and Infrastructure at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.” Journal of eScience Librarianship 10, no. 3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2021.1202.
  • Fallaw, Colleen. “Metadata in the Middle: Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Illinois Data Bank DOIs and Related Metadata.” Poster presented at IASSIST Annual Conference, Lawrence, Kansas. May 26, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/96212.
  • Fallaw, Colleen, Elise M. Dunham, Elizabeth Wickes, Dena Strong, Ayla Stein, Qian Zhang, Kyle Rimkus, Bill Ingram, Heidi J. Imker. “Overly Honest Data Repository Development.” Code4Lib Journal, no. 34 (2016). http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/11980.

Data Curation

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  • Burns, Halle, Sandi Caldrone, and Mikala Narlock. ‘Curation Is Communal: Transparency, Trust, and (In)Visible Labour’. International Journal of Digital Curation 18, no. 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v18i1.938.
  • Marsolek, Wanda, Sarah J. Wright, Hoa Luong, Susan M. Braxton, Jake Carlson, and Sophia Lafferty-Hess. ‘Understanding the Value of Curation: A Survey of Researcher Perspectives of Data Curation Services from Six US Institutions’. PLOS ONE 18, no. 11 (2023): e0293534. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293534. (Video of a related conference presentation starting at 3:00)
  • Johnston, Lisa R., Jake Carlson, Patricia Hswe, Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, Heidi J. Imker, Wendy Kozlowski, Robert K. Olendorf, Claire Stewart. “Data Curation Network: How Do We Compare? A Snapshot of Six Academic Library Institutions’ Data Repository and Curation Services.” Journal of eScience Librarianship 6, no. 1 (2017). https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2017.1102.

Preserving Data and Databases

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  • Cummins, Carla, Heidi Imker, Charles E. Cook, and Guy Cochrane. ‘Usage and Impact of Global Biodata Resources’. Bioinformatics Advances 6, no. 1 (2026): vbag219. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag219.
  • Darragh, Jen, Mikala R. Narlock, Halle Burns, et al. ‘Institutional Data Repositories Are Vital’. Science 385, no. 6714 (2024): 1174–1174. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adr0789.
  • Imker, Heidi J., Kenneth E. Schackart Iii, Ana-Maria Istrate, and Charles E. Cook. ‘A Machine Learning-Enabled Open Biodata Resource Inventory from the Scientific Literature’. PLOS ONE 18, no. 11 (2023): e0294812. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294812.
  • Imker, Heidi J. “Who Bears the Burden of Long-Lived Molecular Biology Databases?” Data Science Journal 19, 1-11. (2020). http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-008. (Dataset for this article)
  • Imker, Heidi J. “25 Years of Molecular Biology Databases: A Study of Proliferation, Impact, and Maintenance.” Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics 3 (2018). https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2018.00018. (Dataset for this article)
  • Anderson, Bethany, Braxton, Susan, Imker, Heidi, and Tracy Popp. “The Art of Preserving Scientific Data: Building Collaboration into the Preservation of a Legacy Database” Paper presented at iPRES 2018 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation, Boston, Massachusetts. (2018) https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/RH9SU
  • Anderson, Bethany, Susan Braxton, Elise Dunham,  Heidi J. Imker, Kyle Rimkus. “Should We Keep Everything Forever? Determining the Long-Term Value of Research Data.” Poster presented at iPRES 2016, 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation, Bern, Switzerland, October 3-6, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/91659.

Morrow Plots Data

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  • Caldrone, Sandi L., Andrew J. Margenot, Morrow Plots Data Curation Working Group, et al. ‘From Complex Histories to Cohesive Data, a Long-Term Agricultural Dataset from the Morrow Plots’. Scientific Data 11, no. 1 (2024): 1145. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03984-9.
  • Caldrone, Sandi, Heidi Imker, and Joshua Henry. Morrowplots: Historical Agricultural Data from the University of Illinois (R Package). R. V. 0.1.0. The Comprehensive R Archive Network. Released 7 May 2024. https://cran.r-project.org/package=morrowplots.
  • Morrow Plots Data Curation Working Group. ‘Morrow Plots Treatment and Yield Data’. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024. https://doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-7865141_V2.
  • Anderson, Bethany G., Sandi L. Caldrone, Joshua Henry, Heidi J. Imker, Andrew J. Margenot, and Sarah C. Williams. ‘Publishing Agricultural Data from the Morrow Plots: The Value and Logistics of Preserving a Long-Term Research Experiment’. 19th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) Proceedings, 19-23 September 2023, 21 September 2023, 127–36. IDEALS. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121102.
  • Anderson, Bethany G., Sandi L. Caldrone, Joshua Henry, et al. ‘Cultivating the Scientific Data of the Morrow Plots: Visualization and Data Curation for a Long-Term Agricultural Experiment’. Proceedings iPRES 2022, 12-16 September 2022, 15 September 2022, 202–7. https://doi.org/10.7207/ipres2022-proceedings.
  • Henry, Josh, Bethany Anderson, Heidi J. Imker, Hoa Luong, Kelli Trei, and Sarah C. Williams. “Digging into the Data of the Morrow Plots: an Interdisciplinary Approach.” E-poster at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2142/112732

Data Management

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  • Caldrone, Sandi, and Yali Feng. ‘The Data Drill: An Opportunity for Researchers to Practice Accessing and Interpreting Data’. Journal of eScience Librarianship 14, no. 1 (2025): 1. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.851.
  • Kollen, Chris, Rio, Fernando, and Heidi J. Imker. “Developing and Sustaining RDM Services.” OCLC Works in Progress Webinar Series, February 9, 2021. video (2:40)
  • Orlowska, Daria, Colleen Fallaw, Yali Feng, Livia Garza, Ashley Hetrick, Heidi Imker, and Hoa Luong. “Better Data Management, One Nudge at a Time” IASSIST Quarterly 45 (2) (2021) https://doi.org/10.29173/iq1010. (Video of a related conference presentation starting at 41:20)
  • Burnette, Margaret H., Sarah C. Williams, Heidi J. Imker. “From Plan to Action: Successful Data Management Plan Implementation in a Multidisciplinary Project.” Journal of eScience Librarianship 5, no. 1 (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2016.1101.

Data Sharing and Reuse

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  • Imker, Heidi J., Hoa Luong, William H. Mischo, Mary C. Schlembach, and Chris Wiley. “An Examination of Data Reuse Practices within Highly Cited Articles of Faculty at a Research University.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 47, no. 4 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102369. (Dataset for this article and video of a related conference presentation starting at 21:00)
  • Imker, Heidi J. “Overlooked and Overrated Data Sharing: Why so Many Scientists are Confused and/or Dismissive.” in Curating Research Data, edited by Lisa R. Johnston. ACRL, (2016). http://hdl.handle.net/2142/95024.