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Find Data

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Libraries can help you find the data you need. Search , or learn more about .

Acquire Data

To acquire data for campus-wide access, request a data purchase. ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Libraries can help you find and negotiate with vendors. We also work on a case-by-case basis to purchase datasets for researchers, with higher priority going to data with permanent rights and multi-user licenses. 

For single-user and small-group license data sets, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ faculty, graduate students, staff, and postdocs can apply for the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Libraries Research Data Acquisitions Grant.

Manage Data

is the process of maintaining your research data throughout your project. It involves planning and documenting how your data will be collected or created, analyzed, stored, and shared.

ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Libraries research data management support can help you ensure that your data is findable and accessible, preserved over the long-term, and that it meets the requirements of funding agencies. We offer resources for data management for grants and other projects:

Plan

• - Create a plan and manage and share your data.

Data Storage

• - store, publish, and share datasets in compliance with funding agreements.
• - store and share finalized research output (articles, presentations, publications, etc.) derived from your research data.

High-Performance Computing Facilities

ManeFrame II/III and NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD for computationally intensive processing of research data. Contact the Office of Information Technology and O'Donnell Data Science and Research Computing Institute for more information on these high-performance research clusters.

Get Help

• . For questions, contact Research Data Management Support at datasupport@smu.edu.
• For help with programming, data visualization, cleaning, or analysis such as web scraping, contact OIT Data Science Support.
• For statistical consulting, contact ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Statistical Consulting ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½.

Research Data Management Support Policies