Open Access Week 2023 is upon us! The theme this year is "Community over Commercialization."
This theme emphasizes transparency and equitable access to knowledge, which directly aligns with the goals of an institutional repository. Deep Blue Repositories, offered by the University of Michigan Library, facilitates the free and open sharing of research content generated and used in support of research activities at U-M.
The services that Deep Blue provides enable researchers to share materials openly, fostering collaboration, transparency, and access to scientific knowledge for the benefit of both the academic community and the broader public. In celebration of Open Access week, we are highlighting some data sets and documents that tie in with this year’s theme:
Deep Blue Data
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ABC Baby Study (3 datasets). Researchers worked with 284 mothers and infants for this study to identify domains of infant eating behavior and their trajectories over the first year of life.
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Neighborhood Effects : Community Characteristics and Health in Metropolitan Detroit (6 datasets).This project aimed to address gaps in understanding of the differential burden of negative health outcomes by leveraging emerging “big data” sources such as social media sites and citizen-created maps, while linking new sources with existing data sets.
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Data for Service Providers' Influence in Collaborative Governance Networks: Effectiveness in Reducing Chronic Homelessness. The 2014 National Community of Care (CoC) survey was conducted to help policymakers, funding organizations, and nonprofit leaders better understand the range of what CoCs do and how they work with providers, clients, and government to address the issue of homelessness. The survey questionnaire, protocol, and relevant data gathered from HUD websites are included here for others to potentially replicate the study.
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The Lannang Corpus (LanCorp): A POS-tagged, sociolinguistic corpus containing recordings and transcriptions of Lannang speech collected from the metropolitan Manila Lannangs between 2016 and 2020. The Lannang Corpus (LanCorp) is a sociolinguistic POS-tagged 375,000-word speech-and-text corpus of Lannang languages based on audio recordings collected in metropolitan Manila between 2016 and 2020.
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Mixed method dataset of a countrywide multi-sector scale-up of Maternity Waiting Homes in Liberia. Data were collected from a national sample of 119 Maternal Waiting Homes in Liberia established between 2010-2018. The study used a mixed method design that included focus group discussions, individual interviews, logbook reviews, and geographic information systems.
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Investigating gender differences in the Co-occurrence of PTSD and food addiction. This data set supports a study investigating co-occurring PTSD, problematic substance use, obesity, and food addiction. Food addiction co-occurred with PTSD at comparable or stronger rates than other types of problematic substance use; results suggested that this risk may be particularly high for men compared to women.
Deep Blue Documents Collections
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Detroit Area Study (DAS). This study was established in 1951 at the University of Michigan as a "Training and Research Laboratory in the Community" (the Detroit area), and carried out a survey each year, in which students participated through enrollment in a two-semester graduate level course.
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Pacemaker Project My Heart Your Heart (Cardiovascular Center). The University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center conducts a series of research projects to establish pacemaker and defibrillator reuse as a feasible, safe, and ethical means of delivering life saving therapy to patients with no resources. Track the progress of this great project to save millions of lives around the world!
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Population Studies Center. Michigan's Population Studies Center, established in 1961, has a rich history as an interdisciplinary community of scholars in population research and training. PSC is one of five centers within the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (ISR).
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Social Work, School of (SSW) - Skillman Technical Assistance Center (TAC). TAC is the community practice arm of the University of Michigan School of Social Work, taking theory to action at the neighborhood level. The Center is dedicated to establishing and promoting socially just communities, and deploys its interventions to support Detroit residents and stakeholders as they work to strengthen and improve their neighborhoods.
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Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive (UM-Dearborn). Since 1981, Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, has interviewed Holocaust survivors. The University's Mardigian Library has been the repository of the interviews. It has been our privilege to provide a forum for those voices, "listening ears," as one survivor notes, and the facilities to record the testimonies.