Service Overview
Baker Research Services (BRS) staff provides faculty and doctoral student support across the research spectrum- from advising on best resources for a project to managing research projects from beginning to end. The group is a mix of librarians, MBAs, statisticians, and economists with deep expertise working with licensed and publicly available data sources.
Our services can leverage your time and add value to your research:
Literature Reviews (for cases, articles, books, teaching prep.)
- Scholarly journals; popular, business, and trade press; working papers
- Document delivery – provide copies of articles, working papers, dissertations
- Citation tools support
Database Management and Analysis
- Methodological and statistical consultations
- Data retrieval, cleaning, merging, analysis, management
- Programming and programming support
- Excel modeling
- Data storage in a secure, permanently accessible online repository
Database Creation
- Batch article searching to capture counts of keywords or article citations
- Pulling historical data from disparate electronic and print sources together in a database (e.g. company founding dates)
- Screening, merging, subsetting existing data sources
Buying and Licensing Data
- negotiate favorable contract and license terms
- reach deals for best possible pricing
- identify cost-share partners
Background Information/Data/Fact Checking
- Teaching prep
- Media interview prep
- Case writing prep
- Finding/creating maps and other images
Help Desk/Training/Coaching
- Databases
- Excel/SAS/Citation Tools
- Business & research concepts
New research associates are encouraged to contact BRS early in their assignments for advice and training.