This fall, USC health sciences research and data librarian Dr. Jennifer Dinalo is offering a webinar series that shares practical tips for research data management and directs USC researchers and graduate students to the array of resources, expertise, and services available through the USC Libraries.
Dinalo’s Research Bytes series includes three workshops:
- “Your Name, Your Work: ORCID and Research Visibility” on September 23: REGISTER NOW;
- “Navigating Open Access: From NIH Policy to Publishing Support” on October 21: REGISTER NOW;
- and “Where’s the Data? Tools for Locating Research Datasets” on November 4: REGISTER NOW
The workshops will be offered on Zoom to USC faculty, research staff, postdocs, and graduate students. You can learn more about Dinalo’s Research Bytes series in her Research and Data online research guide, which also gives an overview of the consultations she offers to the USC research community and the research data resources available through the USC Libraries.
“Your Name, Your Work: “ORCID and Research Visibility” teaches USC researchers the basics of managing their academic profiles and using ORCIDs and other tools and services for tracking their research impact.
“Navigating Open Access: From NIH Policy to Publishing Support” gives an overview of the NIH Open Access Policy, the current landscape of open access publishing, and the transformative agreements available through the USC Libraries to USC authors.
“Where’s the Data? Tools for Locating Research Datasets” introduces key data repositories, demonstrates how to navigate Data.gov, and highlights alternative data sources featured in USC Libraries’ Alternative Data Guide.
Along with the Research Bytes workshops, Dinalo offers consultations to USC health sciences researchers on numerous data-related topics, including getting the most from their ORCIDs and helping them track and optimize their research impact. She generates impact reports for faculty showing their research outputs, collaborations, publications, citations, funding, and other key information for merit, promotion, and tenure reviews, as well as a variety of other purposes.
Assistant Professor Kristan Leech of the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy consulted with Dinalo on a report showing the impacts from her research on motor learning and the rehabilitation of walking in people with central nervous system damage and disease.
“Jennifer’s expertise and research data services were incredibly helpful,” said Leech. “Although I initially consulted with her for data I wanted for my upcoming merit review, I used the data visualizations she created in a presentation I gave about professional networks and several other talks in the past year.”
Dinalo’s pathway to librarianship began with an undergraduate job at a campus library. “I was inspired by the reference librarians’ ability to navigate complex research questions and support academic work,” she said. “That experience left a lasting impression and planted the seed for a future career.”
After graduation, Dinalo completed a PhD in microbiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, where she investigated the effects of the antibiotic tetracycline on the human microbiome. Her own experiences managing complex research data as a postdoc led her to combine her interests and complete a MLIS with an emphasis in data librarianship.
“I was particularly drawn to health sciences librarianship because of my training in biomedical research,” she said. “I saw an opportunity to support graduate students and researchers not just with literature searches, but also by providing a deeper understanding of their subject areas and the research process itself.”
To schedule a consultation with Dinalo, contact her via dinalo@usc.edu.