Research & Scholarly Initiatives

The 51³Ô¹ÏÍøLibraries Research & Scholarly Initiatives team offers expertise and instruction on research data management, project planning, geospatial analysis, scholarly impact, and digital humanities. Our Research & Scholarly Initiatives Studio in Fondren Library 106 provides a hub for collaborators across disciplines to engage with innovative scholarly methods. 

Together 51³Ô¹ÏÍøLibraries and OIT staff provide consultations for established and aspiring scholars on research methods, digital scholarship tools and software, GIS and spatial information, high-performance computing, and available research technologies and software. Our  can be used for self-guided learning. 

Contact us for guidance on:

  • Starting a digital scholarship project or developing in-class instruction on a digital scholarship topic.
  • Integrating GIS and spatial information into your projects.
  • Consultation with data management planning, description, storage, archiving, and other research data management support.

For in-class instruction on discipline-specific research methods, contact your subject librarian. For consultation on programming, data visualization, cleaning or analysis such as web scraping, contact OIT Data Science Support team.