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Have questions about sharing your data? Pop into our Office Hours Zoom to ask us anything! Office hours are held every month. Zooms for this summer will be:

• Thursday, June 4, 2026 11:30 AM EST
• Tuesday, July 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM EST
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Need to de-identify your data? Looking for Informed Consent Language? Looking for sample language to add to your DData Management Plan, or maybe some Best Practices for working with your IRB? We've got guides, templates and documents to help you make an impact by embracing open science! Let us…

LDbase is committed to the long-term stewardship and accessibility of the repository's content as part of our mission to support open scholarship and digital preservation. Read more about this at the bottom of our About Page. 

Join us for Open Science October! Data Sharing isn't spooky! Look at already-collected research data, make a spooky data visualization based on patterns you see (it's Halloween afterall!), and win prizes! 

For more details: bit.ly/OSOctober24…

Open Science Framework (OSF) and the Center for Open Science (COS) are now using LDbase's metadata framework for FAIR storage of education and developmental science research data. In line with the National Institutes of Health’s recommendation for domain-specific repositories and reporting…

Dr. Mary Alt (University of Arizona) has recently been awarded a research supplement through the NIH Tackling Acquisition of Language in Kids (TALK) Initiative, related to her ongoing NIH R01 grant Identification of treatment parameters that maximize language treatment efficacy for children.…

Dr. Jessica Toste (University of Texas at Austin) has recently been awarded an NIH R01 grant for her project Integrating Data to Advance Reading Effectiveness: Exploring Racial Differences (IDARE), which focuses on the integration and secondary analysis of reading intervention focused datasets.…

Congratulations to Dr. Jeffrey Shero on his graduation! Dr. Shero’s next step is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education with our colleague Dr. Jessica Logan. He is interested in open science and research methodologies broadly, with a particular interest in…

Stephanie Estrera is a PhD student at FSU interested in the genetic and environmental influences on reading, open science practices, and science communication. She is also a creative genius with a lot of new ideas, and we are lucky to have her as a part of the team!…

Christine White is a third-year Ph.D. student in Developmental Psychology. She is interested in studying and supporting reading educators’ evidence-based decision making through empirical research on effective early identification of students at risk for reading problems and through the creation…

LDbase has a template for Data Management Plans and can fulfill grant requirements for funded researchers. Add LDbase to your grant! :) 

NIH encourages researchers to use domain-specific repositories that are most appropriate for their data type and discipline. NIH lists and supports LDbase as a trusted repository to use for Educational and Developmental research. We have current NIH funding, sustained support, open…

NIH has a list of Desirable Characteristics for Data Repositories, and LDbase meets all of the criteria! See how we do it, here.