Altmetric Explorer
Altmetric's mission is to track and analyze the online activity around scholarly research outputs.
Services Directory
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Assessment
The University Libraries collects data on its services, collections, and programming to make data-informed decisions in service to the CMU community.
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Citations & Referencing
The University Libraries offers several resources that can help you manage your citations. Citation Styles and Management can help you with citation and citation management
Connecting from Off Campus
Current CMU students, faculty, and staff have access to electronic library materials from off campus. All other users must be on campus and request temporary computer access to use electronic materials.
Copy, Print & Scan
The Libraries offers a list of printers, scanners, & copiers available at each location. Step-by-step instructions are posted at the machines.
Copyright & Fair Use
Members of the Carnegie Mellon community are expected to obey the Copyright Law of the United States. Managing your copyrights effectively and using other people's copyrighted work in compl
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Data & Code Support
We offer support for open source coding languages and data science tools for anyone in the CMU community working on research, class projects, or simply learning a new skill.
Data Visualization
Are you currently involved in work that could be augmented by visualizing your data for analysis or to communicate your findings to the public?
Databases, eResources & Tools
Explore an A-Z listing of databases, datasets, and research support tools aimed at assisting students, faculty, and staff members throughout the r
Digitization Services
Our Digital Collections feature a wide range of materials including newspapers, maps, manuscripts, letters, publications, and more.
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Elements
Elements is the shared research information management system at CMU, which collects and maintains academic and research activities in one convenient location.
Evidence Synthesis Service
The University Libraries provides evidence synthesis support to CMU students, researchers and staff.
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Services
Geographic Information Systems are tools that allow you to manipulate spatial data. Spatial data include vector data (e.g., shapefiles), raster images (e.g., GeoTIFFs), LiDAR, and others. Spatial inquiry and analysis is of growing interest in multiple disciplines.
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KiltHub Repository & Collection
Provided by the University Libraries, KiltHub is the comprehensive institutional repository and research collaboration platform for research data and scholarly outputs produced by members of Carnegie Mel
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LibKey Nomad
LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that facilitates access to the Libraries' full text resources as you find research on the web.
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Mendeley
Mendeley is a free tool to help you organize and manage PDFs. It allows you to cite sources in Word and create bibliographies in nearly any citation style with the click of a button.
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Open Science & Data Collaborations
Open Science & Data Collaborations (OSDC) is a University Libraries program supporting collaborative, transparent, openly accessible, and reproducible research across all disciplines at Carnegie Mellon University.
Open Science Framework
Developed by the non-profit, Center for Open Science, OSF has a number of features that support open and reproducible research.
Open Source Programs Office (OSPO)
The open source programs office (OSPO) raises awareness and capacity for open source software to better develop, manage, curate, and share it for research, education, translation, and broader impact.
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Redivis
Redivis is a cloud platform for storing and working with datasets, including sensitive data types and big data. CMU affiliates can host datasets up to 1 TB for free on the platform.
Research Data Management
What services do the Libraries offer to support research data management for researchers, faculty, and students across all disciplines at CMU? What are recommended practices for data management planning? How do you create robust metadata?
Research/Reference Help
Our personnel are information specialists with extensive knowledge of disciplinary information sources and methods who can help with everything from a first-year assignment to dissertation work and grant-funded research projects.
RIMS - Research Information Management Services
Research Information Management Services (RIMS) brings together information about scholarship, creative practices, and funded research endeavors, as well as teaching, service, awards, and leadership accomplishments.
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SciVal
SciVal is a web-based analytics solution that provides comprehensive access to the research performance of over 20,000 research institutions and their associated researchers f
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Tableau
Tableau is a software that helps you create more dynamic and appealing visualizations for your class projects, research, or just for fun!
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Zotero
Zotero is a free, open source tool for helping you collect, organize, cite and share your research sources.