550 Sherbrooke West, West Tower
6th floor, suite 680
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B9
Subjects
- Research Data Management
Research Data Management Specialist
Education
Master of Information Studies, 鶹AV, 2024
Ph.D. (Political Science), University of California - Santa Barbara, 2012
Master of Arts(Political Science), University of California - Santa Barbara, 2010
Bachelor of Arts (Bioethics and Political Science), University of Judaism, 2006
Areas of Interest
- Research data management best practices
- Approaches to teaching research data management
- Pedagogical innovations related to spatial data analysis and visualization
- Interdisciplinary applications of quantitative methods
Selected Publications
Rod, A. B., Hervieux, S., & Lee, N. (2024). Evaluating an Instructional Intervention for Research Data Management Training.Evidence Based Library and Information Practice,19(1), 114-131.
Rod, A.B. & Boruff, J.T. (2024). Searches as data: Archiving and sharing search strategies using an institutional data repository. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 112(1): 42-47.
Rod, A.B. & Thompson, K. (2023).Sensitive Data: Practical and Theoretical Considerations. InK. Thompson, E. Hill, E. Carlisle-Johnston, D. Dennie, & É. Fortin (Eds.),Research Data Management in the Canadian Context.Western University, Western Libraries.
Rod, A.B. & Zhou, B. (2023). Managing Quantitative Social Science Data. In K. Thompson, E. Hill, E. Carlisle-Johnston, D. Dennie, & É. Fortin (Eds.), Research Data Management in the Canadian Context. Western University, Western Libraries.
Rod, A.B. (2023). "It Takes a Researcher to Know a Researcher: Academic Librarian Perspectives Regarding Skills and Training for Research Data Support in Canada", Evidence Based Library and Information Practice,18(2), 44-58.
Rod, A. B., Zhou, B., & Rousseau, M., (2023) “There's no 'I' in Research Data Management: Reshaping RDM Services Toward a Collaborative Multi-Stakeholder Model”,Journal of eScience Librarianship12(1), 1–17.
Rod, A.B. & Correia, J. (2022). "The Most Vital Statistics: Finding and Analyzing Historical Mortality Rates".In K. Getz and M. Brodsky (Eds.), The Data Literacy Cookbook,(pp.30–33). Association of College and Research Libraries.
Rod, A.B., Isuster, M.Y, & Chandler, M. (2021). "Love Data Week in the time of COVID-19: A content analysis of Love Data Week 2021 events". The Journal of Academic Librarianship,47(6).
Rod, A.B., Weiman, D.F., Koli, F., Carlson, A., & Green, J.A. (2021). “The Barnard College Empirical Reasoning Center: A Case Study in Developing a Service Model for Teaching Data Literacy Across Disciplines”. In J. Bauder (Ed),Data Literacy in Academic Libraries: Teaching Critical Thinking with Numbers (pp. 59 - 76), American Library Association.
Nadasen, P., Koli, F. Rod, A.B., & Weiman, D. (2019). "Mississippi Semester: New Social Justice Approach to Teaching Empirical Reasoning in Context", Numeracy, 12(1).
Rod, A.B., Schonfeld, R., &Wolff, C. (2016). "Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2015", New York: Ithaka S+R.
Guerrero, M., &Rod, A.B. (2013). "Engaging in Office Hours: A Study of Student-Faculty Interaction and Academic Performance", Journal of Political Science Education, 9(4), 403-416.
Selected Presentations
Abel, J. & Rod, A.B. (2024). "Who Studies the Students? The Challenges of Doing Research on Canadian LIS Programs", lightning talk presentation at theCanadian Association for Information Science annual conference, Online, Canada. June 6, 2024.
Rod, A.B. & Goodchild, M. (2024). "Venturing Beyond our Silos: Results from a Survey of Canadian Data Repository Administrators",presentation at the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology Annual Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. May 31, 2024.
Lange, J., Kohn, A., & Rod, A.B. (2024). "The Future is Open: An Open Research Symposium to Build Community Connections", presentation atCanadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) Virtual Conference, Canada. May 22, 2024.
Goodchild, M., Rod, A.B., & Khair, S. (2023). "Better together: Collaborating on a community-led initiative to develop a survey of Canadian Dataverse administrators",presentation at theInternational Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, United States. June 1, 2023.
Goodchild, M., Rod, A.B., & Stieglitz, T. (2023). "For the community by the community: Developing a Survey of Canadian Dataverse Administrators," presentation at the Research Data Access & Preservation Summit, Online. March 30, 2023.
Isuster, M., Rod, A.B., Condon, P., & Shelton, A. (2023). "Love to love your data: Building data literacy through celebration," panel presentation at ACRL, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. March 17, 2023.
Rod, A.B., Hervieux, S., & Lee, N. (2023). "We will meet you where you are: The development and evaluation of tailored training for the management of research data," presentation at ACRL, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. March 16, 2023.
Rod, A.B., Isuster, M.Y. & Mawhinney, T. (2022). "Demystifying Qualitative Coding," workshop at the Library Assessment Conference, Online. November 1, 2022.
Rod, A.B., Pecoskie, C., Howard, K., Turp, C., Desmeules, R. & Desrochers, N. (2022). "BiblioTECH: Building a Collaborative Future-Oriented Instruction Program for Information Studies Students," presentation at Access Conference, Hybrid (Online/Ottawa, Ontario), Canada. October 13, 2022.
Isuster, M.Y.& Rod, A.B. (2022). "The inevitability of a reproducibility crisis in the digital humanities," poster session at DH2022, Online. July 2022.
Boruff, J. & Rod, A.B. (2022). "Searches as data: Using an institutional data repository to archive and share knowledge synthesis searches", presentation at the Canadian Health Librarian Association Conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. June 11, 2022.
Rod, A.B. (2022). "La formation aux PGD,"panel discussion participant atRetour d'expérience avec les PGD du groupe de travail sur la gestion des données de recherche du sous-comité des bibliothèques du BCI, Online. March 23, 2022.
Grynoch, T., Aghassibake, N., Rod, A.B., & Zoss, A. (2022). "Mix and Match: Building Flexible Data Visualization Modules," poster presentation atthe Research Data Access & Preservation Summit, Online. March, 2022.
Rod, A.B. & Zhou, B. (2022). "There’s no 'I' in RDM: Reshaping RDM Services Toward a Collaborative Multi-Stakeholder Model," lightning talk presentation at the Research Data Access & Preservation Summit, Online. March, 2022.
Hervieux, S., Lee, N., & Rod, A.B. (2021). "What’s data got to do with it? Establishing a research data management curriculum online",presentationat the LOEX Conference.Virtual. May 12, 2021.
Rod, A.B.,Hervieux, S. & Lee, N. (2021). "The zooming winds of change: Developing a new curriculum for RDM instruction from the virtual ground up",presentationat the Research Data Access & Preservation (RDAP) Annual Summit.Virtual. March 11, 2021. ()
Klein, J., Grynoch, T., &Rod, A.B. (2020). "Connecting Communities through a Passion for Data Visualization in Libraries: The Visualizing the Future Symposia", presentation at the Research Data Access and Preservation Association (RDAP) Annual Summit. Santa Fe, New Mexico, US. March 12, 2020. ()