https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/3866 Auburn University Libraries Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:10:39 GMT 2026-04-18T01:10:39Z https://aurora.auburn.edu:443/bitstream/id/a618b26e-a9c1-4088-891c-27c39ecc22b7/ https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/3866 https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50747 A multi-strategic approach to locating institutional data deposits Fragmentation in the landscape of data sharing poses a challenge to institutional attempts to assess research output and compliance with grant requirements. Variation in disciplinary norms, individual practices, and metadata standards make it difficult to determine where, or whether, affiliated researchers deposit their datasets at project’s end. While commercial providers do offer paid services purporting to solve these issues, many institutions prefer to keep this work in-house for reasons of cost, accuracy, and fit with local objectives. Practical examples of dataset discovery projects, their successes and failures, are useful to decision-makers within research institutions weighing their options in this area. We report the results of a search for publicly accessible datasets produced by Auburn University researchers within the past ten years. This effort, a collaboration between two librarians and an undergraduate student, involved multiple strategies for finding data. Examples of such included searching databases for publications with associated data, searching generalist and specialist repositories directly, and utilizing the scholarly profiles (e.g. ORCID records) of known researchers of interest. Lists of federal grants received by Auburn-affiliated researchers were used to help identify and prioritize potential data depositors. This poster explores the rationale behind the various strategies along with their relative success in discovering data. As the purpose of the project was to iteratively develop a methodology, the roadblocks we encountered were as instructive as the successes of each strategy. We conclude with a discussion of planned next steps, such as discussions with institutional stakeholders, and a broader reflection on the challenges posed by inconsistent or absent affiliation metadata in the research reporting infrastructure. https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50747 https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50744 Review of Riya Das’s Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature This cogent work, "highly recommended" by CHOICE, is yet another example of the fine new scholarship that, fortunately, often targets George Eliot's work. One might occasionally disagree with the author, but even sceptical engagement in this case enables greater clarity in one's own thinking. https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50744 https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50743 Review of Priyanka Anne Jacob’s The Victorian Novel on File, Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage The British Library began the nineteenth century with 48,000 volumes and ended it with two million. Add to their extraordinary mound of paper the holdings of other libraries, the Public Records Office, newspapers and magazines, the records of politics, commerce, and empire, etcetera... https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50743 https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50742 Review of Juliette Atkinson’s George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction This latest addition to the Oxford VSI series is a fresh and lively introduction to George Eliot's life and work which will appeal as much to those who are familiar with the subject as to those who are approaching the novelist for the first time. https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50742