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Research Computing Lab / Profile

Home Page: http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/brown/rescomp/index.html

Focus

Teaching, Training

Overview

The Research Computing Lab provides research and instructional support for advanced technology and methodology in the science and engineering disciplines. Through our location in the Brown Science and Engineering Library, we complement the suite of information services offered by the Library and work in close partnership with subject librarians to provide seamless research and instructional support.

We offer consultation services in:

Software support
Competitive intelligence
Data
Collaboration
Research Communication

We have both on-demand and appointment-based consulting, depending upon the urgency and complexity of your support needs.

Normal Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat-Sun Closed

People

Staff

Andrew Sallans, MLIS
Librarian for Digital Services and Librarian for Computer Science
Manager, Research Computing Lab Manager
als9q@virginia.edu
(434) 243-2180

Carla Lee, MILS
Director, Brown Science and Engineering Library
cl9eb@virginia.edu
(434) 243-2390

Specialists

Kathy Gerber, MS
Research Computing Support Specialist (scientific computing)
kathy@virginia.edu
(434) 982-4986

Kelly Johnston, MS GIS
G.I.S. Specialist
kgj3t@virginia.edu
(434) 243-4242

Sherry Lake, MSIS
Digital Projects/Metadata Specialist
shlake@virginia.edu
(434) 924-6730

Erin Mayhood, MSLIS, MM
Usability Study Specialist
elm8s@virginia.edu
(434) 924-7017

Kirsten Miles
Research Computing Support Specialist
kdm3d@virginia.edu
(434) 924-3078

Aubry Verret
Research Computing Support Specialist
awv7t@virginia.edu
(434) 243-3909

Student Consultants

We also have student consultants who provide support in a wide variety of areas and methods for computational science and web technologies. Stop by the RCL service desk for face-to-face assistance.

Isaac Bawuah, CLAS Computer Science
Timothy Kang, SEAS Computer Science
Adrian Santos, SEAS Chemical Engineering
Orion De Shay, SEAS Chemical Engineering
Benjamin Kim, COMM School

Data

Subject Sources

Highlights of what is available on the Web, in each of the disciplines we support.

Online Journals

Access to full-text electronic journal providers. UVa Library Electronic Collections: Links to Electronic Texts, Geospatial and Statistical Data, and Special Collections Finding Aids.

Image Collections

Links to Electronic Image Collections at UVa.

UVa Digital Library Initiative

The Digital Initiatives site includes digital collections from UVa, metadata standards, and information on UVa's Digital Library Repository.

Climatology Virginia

Climatology Virginia is a database of NCDC climate data sets. Datasets, for the State of Virginia, include Summary of the Month, Summary of the Day, Hourly Precipitation, and 15-minute Precipitation from the 1940's to the Present.

Digitized Texts

Brown SEL has begun to contribute science texts to the University's Digital Library.

Tools

To see details about each package, click on the title. Each package has different restrictions on usage. Some packages are only available via download.

Licenses for all the software listed below are available on the Research Computing Support Group's Licensed Software Database

Scientific

Ansys
ESRI ArcGIS Suite
ESRI ArcPad
ESRI ArcView
ESRI BusinessMAP
IDL
LabVIEW
Maple
Mathematica
Matlab
OriginPro
PGI Compilers

Statistical

Amos
Lisrel
Minitab
NVivo
SAS
SAS Enterprise Guide
S-PLUS
SPSS
Stata
StatTransfer

Miscellaneous

Acrobat
Adobe fonts
Discoverer
Exceed
Hummingbird Security Pack
LaTeX
oXygenXML
SpySweeper
WinZip

Web Authoring

Adobe GoLive CS2 (available on CLKR140-504 and -505)
Adobe InDesign CS2 (available on CLKR140-504 and -505)
Microsoft FrontPage

Multimedia

Audacity
PowerDVD
Quicktime
RecordNow!
Windows Media Player

Science and Research

Amos 7
ANSYS 11.0
DataSocket
Express Labeler
ExtendScript Toolkit
IDL 7.0
LabVIEW 8.5
Lisrel 8.8
Maple 12
Mathematica 6.0.2
Mathcad 14
MATLAB 7.6 2008a
MDL CrossFire Commander 7.0
MiKTeX 2.7
Minitab 15
NI-488.2
NI-DAQ
OriginLab
Python 2.1
R 2.5.1
Refworks
SAE International
SAS 9.1
SciFinder Scholar 2006
SkyMap Pro 6
S-PLUS 8.0
SPSS 15.0
TeXnicCenter
VISA

General Software

Adobe Bridge (available on CLKR140-504 and -505)
Eclipse
Hummingbird Connectivity 2007
Mozilla Firefox
Oracle Calendar 9.0.4
oXygen XML Editor 9.3
SecureCRT 5.5
SecureFX 4.5

Other

Consultation Services

Software Support

Computational
Statistical
Numerical/symbolic
Simulation
Visualization
Data management
Computational programming
Digital publishing

Competitive Intelligence

Monitoring and commuication of emerging technology trends in the science and engineering disciplines
Training on emerging technologies and methods in our service areas (ie. lab notebooks, social networking, Web 2.0)

Data

Metadata
Data management
Data mining
Databases
Web/database/script programming
Visualization
Web services
Data curation

Collaboration

Identification of translational research opportunities
Connecting researchers in different disciplines

Research Communication

Intellectual property (IP)
Copyright
Emerging technologies
Visualization

Usability and User Requirements Services

Overview

The University of Virginia Library uses a "SWAT team" approach to user studies, in which a pair of consultants from the library staff - one user requirements specialist and one usability specialist - intervenes at the early stages of project development. These usability consultants assist teams incorporate a user-centered design approach to their work. Methods frequently used include focus groups, surveys, card sorting, guided interviews and usability testing.

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