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Get Support for Research & Publishing

Looking for resources for your scholarship? Harvard Library can help.

Harvard Library helps researchers in any field generate, curate, transform, and publish their work. We offer expert staff support, access to data and tools, and robust digital repositories for data and scholarly communications.

 

CONNECT WITH RESEARCH EXPERTS

Our staff of experts is here to help you find existing research sources, curate your own data, and utilize our digital repositories. Together we'll figure out a plan to get what you need to bring your research beyond the walls of your lab or campus office.

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Research Consultations

Get personalized guidance from one of our library specialists online or in-person—no question is too small.
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Library Liaisons

Connect with a subject expert for personalized research help

Professional School Resources

Publishing Data Services at Countway LibraryCountway Library Review ServiceResearch Data Program at Baker Library
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GENERATE, CURATE, AND TRANSFORM YOUR RESEARCH

Use these services and tools to make it easier to engage with your research data and scholarly sources.

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DMPTool

Create and share data management plans to meet funder requirements — and as a best practice for managing your research data — with this online tool.
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NVivo

Working with qualitative data and statistics? This powerful software for qualitative research analysis can help.
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Visualization Support

Get help and training with data visualization design and tools—such as Tableau—for the Harvard community.
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Digital Mapping and GIS Support

Get help with maps, mapping, geographic information systems, and other geospatial tools, as well as cartographic design.
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EndNote

This highly customizable research management software helps you save and organize your references for citation and bibliographies.
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Zotero

An easy-to-use citation tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
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FIND EXISTING DATASETS AND SOURCES

Harvard Library provides access to repositories of data from all disciplines. Search for existing datasets or explore through APIs and curated worksets.

Finding Datasets in HOLLIS

The "Advanced Search" function in HOLLIS allows you to limit by Resource Type to "Research Data Sets." Add your own keywords to refine.

Search HOLLIS

Licensed Datasets in Dataverse

As a Harvard affiliate, login to Dataverse and access thousands of licensed datasets across numerous research fields.

Explore Harvard Dataverse

HathiTrust Research Center

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) enables computational analysis across 17+ million digitized items.

Visit the HTRC

LibraryCloud Item API

Harvard LibraryCloud is a metadata hub that provides granular, open access to a large aggregation of Harvard library bibliographic metadata.

Learn about LibraryCloud

Caselaw Access Project

The Caselaw Access Project (CAP) includes all official, book-published United States case law, converted into structured data.

Use CAP Tools

STORING AND SHARING YOUR RESEARCH

Whether you’re planning on publishing data sets, scholarly articles, or working papers, Harvard Library maintains digital repositories that allow you to store and share your research, as well as access to services that help you connect your research and publications.

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DASH

An open access repository of research by the Harvard community.
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Harvard Dataverse

Harvard's open online repository for sharing, preserving, citing, exploring, and analyzing research data.
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ORCID

Create and connect your Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) account with Harvard.
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Open Science Framework

Use OSF to collaborate, manage, and share your documents, datasets, and research projects.

UNIVERSITY RESOURCES

Partner sites from across the University also have information to help you with research data and publishing.

Office of the Vice Provost for ResearchIQSS Data Science ServicesOffice for Sponsored Programs
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