Reading period access: From April 30-May 12, access to the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and the Fisher Fine Arts Library will be limited to PennCard holders and other Penn affiliates. See our Service Alerts for more information.

Books on the move: Materials on the fifth floor of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center are being temporarily moved to our off-site storage facility. For your safety, please avoid browsing the fifth-floor stacks. See our Service Alerts for information about requesting books during the transition. 

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Work with us

Request a workshop or in-class session or submit a proposal to collaborate with us on a data-driven research project or digital scholarly publication.

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Explore our work

Discover the projects, presentations, and papers we've recently been working on and learn more about the process of making them.

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Increase your research impact

With ScholarlyCommons, you can increase the reach of your articles, book chapters, reports, educational materials, and more!

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View our workshop library

Watch recorded workshops on text mining, data visualization, R and Python, GIS, data ethics, data management, and more. More live training opportunities coming soon!

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Meet the team

Get to know the Research Data and Digital Scholarship team.

Maps and More

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Staff Information

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