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Research data management consultant, editor, and writing coach with two decades of STEM librarian experience.

Profile Summary

My background as a science research librarian, research data librarian and instructional technologist, working with everyone from undergraduates to tenured PIs, gives me the expertise and broad view of the academic research landscape to help you solve the research data management and publishing problems that keep you up at night. I now consult in research data management, providing trainings, project support, and consultations to make storing, protecting, and sharing your data easier. I bring the same approach to my developmental editing and writing coaching clients, helping them to get past sticking points in their work, approach projects in new ways, and publish excellent work. I’ve worked alongside a wide variety of STEM researchers and professionals, and my own educational background is in biochemistry, molecular biology, and information science.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Data Management
• ☆ Python
• ☆ R
• ☆ Markup Languages
• ☆ Instructional Webinars
• ☆ Skills Training
• ☆ Literature Review
• ☆ Traditional/Narrative Literature Review
• ☆ Systematic Literature Review
• ☆ Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Project Management

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Creative Writing, Newswriting, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting, Regulatory Consulting

Data & AI Data Cleaning, Data Processing

Work Experience

Principal

Oelker Data Services

July 2023 - Present

Mount Holyoke College

August 2005 - April 2023

Drew University

January 2003 - July 2005

Education

Master of Library and Information Science

Rutgers University

September 2001 - January 2003

Bachelor of Arts in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Yale University

September 1995 - May 1999

Certifications

• IBM Data Science Professional

  IBM

  https://www.ibm.com/training/badge/data-science-professional-certificate

  April 2024 - Present

• Carpentries Instructor

  The Carpentries

  https://carpentries.org/community/instructors/

  March 2018 - Present

Publications

CONFERENCE PAPER

James Burke and Sarah Oelker, "Library and IT Partnerships to Support Data Services." July 20, 2023, Presentation at ACRL-New England Research Data Services Interest Group Research Data Services Roundtable, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Oelker, Sarah, Pinto, Caro, Adamo, Julie, Whiteside, Alice, Stettner, Mary(2014). Presentation: Practice, Polish, Present: A Team Approach to Professional Development. Association of College and Research Libraries New England Chapter Annual Conference, Worcester, MA.

Oelker, Sarah, Goldstein, Sarah(2011). Presentation: Planning for Data Curation in the Small Liberal Arts College Environment. Special Library Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

CONFERENCE POSTER

Joel Broyles, Aime DeGrenier, Janet Ewing, Sarah Oelker, Shaun Trujillo, "Building shared expectations for success with institutional support of network-attached storage (NAS) devices." March 11, 2020, Poster presentation at Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP), Santa Fe, NM .

Oelker, Sarah, Atwood, Thea, Creamer, Andrew, Dull, Joshua, Goldman, Julie, Lee, Kristin, Leligdon, Lora(2018). The New England Software Carpentry Library Consortium: Developing a Carpentry Instructor Community of Practice. Poster presentation at University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium, Worcester, MA.

Adamo, J., Baker, N., Burke, J., Glackin, M., & Oelker, S. (2017). Building Research Data Services at Mount Holyoke College. University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium. https://doi.org/10.13028/gr5w-ev85. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/escience_symposium/2017/posters/8 .

Oelker, Sarah, Adamo, Julie, Baker, Nick, Burke, James, Glackin, Mary(2017). Building Research Data Services at Mount Holyoke College . Poster presentation at University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium, Worcester, MA.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

McDowell, G.S., Knutsen, J.D., Graham, J.M., Oelker, S.K., Lijek, R.S.(2019). Co-reviewing and ghostwriting by early-career researchers in the peer review of manuscripts . eLife. 8.

Atwood, Thea P., Creamer, Andrew T., Dull, Joshua, Goldman, Julie, Lee, Kristin, Leligdon, Lora C., Oelker, Sarah K.(2019). Joining Together to Build More: The New England Software Carpentry Library Consortium . 8Journal of eScience Librarianship

Oelker, Sarah, Atwood, Thea P., Creamer, Andrew, Henderson, Margaret, Lee, Kristin, Leligdon, Lora C.(2019). NN/LM NER e-Science Program, Researcher Support Committee White Paper on Supporting Researcher Needs . University of Massachusetts Amherst

Godbout, C., Oelker, S.K., Stettner, M.C.(2015). Ask LITS: A novel public question-and-answer board . College and Research Libraries News. 76. (5). p. 274-277.

Goldstein, Sarah and Oelker, Sarah K. (2011) "Planning for Data Curation in the Small Liberal Arts College Environment," Sci-Tech News: Vol. 65 : Iss. 3 , Article 4. Available at: https://jdc.jefferson.edu/scitechnews/vol65/iss3/4.

BOOK CHAPTER

Oelker, Sarah, Aidala, Katherine, R Pun, M. Houlihan(2017). The First-Year Experience Cookbook. Chicago: ACRL

Oelker, S., and Aidala, K. (2017) Infographic Pie Judging in a Science FYS. In R. Pun and M. Houlihan (Eds.) The First-Year Experience Cookbook. Chicago: ACRL .