Alisa Rod

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Alisa Rod

Title

Research Data Management Specialist

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Biography

First name

Alisa

Last name

Rod

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8797-2341

Library subject

Research Data Management

Education

Master of Information Studies, ��VR��Ƶ, 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

550 Sherbrooke West, West Tower
6th floor, suite 680
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B9

alisa.rod [at] mcgill.ca

Selected Publications

Abel, J., & Rod, A. B. (2025). LIS Program Representatives’ Perspectives on Preparing Students for Careers in Research Data Management and Data-Related Librarianship. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 20 (1), 2–19. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30622

Isuster, M.Y., & Rod, A.B. (Eds.). (2025). Data Culture in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide to Building Communities, Partnerships, and Collaborations. Association of College and Research Libraries.

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. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30439

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. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2024.1791

Rod, A.B. & Thompson, K. (2023). Sensitive Data: Practical and Theoretical Considerations. In K. Thompson, E. Hill, E. Carlisle-Johnston, D. Dennie, & É. Fortin (Eds.), Research Data Management in the Canadian Context. Western University, Western Libraries. https://doi.org/10.5206/ZRUV7849

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. https://doi.org/10.5206/ZRUV7849

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. https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30297

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 Librarianship 12(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.624

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). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102449

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). https://doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.12.1.3

Rod, A.B., Schonfeld, R., & Wolff, C. (2016). "Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2015", New York: Ithaka S+R. http://dx.doi.org/10.18665/sr.277685

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2013.835554

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 the Canadian 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 at Canadian 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 the International 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 at Retour 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 at the 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", presentation at 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", presentation at the Research Data Access & Preservation (RDAP) Annual Summit. Virtual. March 11, 2021. (slides)

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. (slides)