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Digital Scholarship and Data Services

Librarians with expertise in digital scholarship and data services provide consultation, collaboration and co-authorship for projects that involve digital research methods, data science and digital publishing. 

Services include:

  • Course-related instruction: invite us to your class to teach your students about digital research methods and data skills, or collaborate on the development of course-specific materials. 
  • Research consultations and collaborations: meet one-on-one with a data specialist from the library or from NUIT.
  • Workshops and training: develop your skills in topics like GIS, text mining and data science. 
  • GIS and data visualization: receive support for mapping, spatial analysis, finding spatial datasets, and general troubleshooting for GIS software.
  • Research data management: receive support to write a data management plan, collect and store data securely, share and archive data, and more.
  • Digital humanities and publishing services:  consultations and support in the creation of custom digital publications, including scholarly journals, digital exhibits, monographs and more. 

Data Analysis

Provides guides and consultations on tools and software for both qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

Data Library

Facilitates discovery, access, and analysis of commonly used datasets; allowing queries, statistics, and visualizations to be produced directly in the Data Library, or for datasets to be downloaded for local analysis as available and permitted.

Digital Publishing

Provides consultations, assistance and technologies for publishing original research and educational materials online.

Digital Humanities

Offers interdisciplinary consultation and collaboration services for humanities faculty and graduate students interested in digital forms of research, teaching and publication.

Research Data Management

Consults on the development of a data management plan and provides technical solutions to share and archive data.

Text Mining

Teaches tools and methods for text mining library resources. 

Libraries and NUIT Workshops

Jun
15
2026

Research Computing and Data Drop-in Support

3:00 PM Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library), 2233 Tech Drive
Research Computing and Data Services Consultations Drop-in Support: We are excited to be holding in-person consultation ...
Jun
22
2026

Research Computing and Data Drop-in Support

3:00 PM Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library), 2233 Tech Drive
Research Computing and Data Services Consultations Drop-in Support: We are excited to be holding in-person consultation ...
Jun
29
2026

Quest Orientation (Virtual)

10:00 AM
Northwestern University provides a high-performance computing cluster, Quest, for its researchers. The cluster is design...
Jun
29
2026

Research Computing and Data Drop-in Support

3:00 PM Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library), 2233 Tech Drive
Research Computing and Data Services Consultations Drop-in Support: We are excited to be holding in-person consultation ...
Jul
1
2026

HPC and Bioinformatics Office Hours

3:30 PM Ward Building, 303 E. Chicago Avenue
Stop in to get help with coding and computing needs. Northwestern IT Research Computing and Data Services staff and stud...
Jul
6
2026

Research Computing and Data Drop-in Support

3:00 PM Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library), 2233 Tech Drive
Research Computing and Data Services Consultations Drop-in Support: We are excited to be holding in-person consultation ...