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Folder Locations and What is Stored Where

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  • Whether modified or new-from-scratch, if you are working on an analysis is in process (not yet working, not yet fully formatted, or not yet described), save it in My Folders.

    • This is your folder to do with as you wish. The contents are not accessible to other Analytics users. You may save multiple versions of analyses as needed during analysis development and use your own naming convention to distinguish drafts.

    • You can also create subfolders for different projects, types of analyses, or analyses on different Analytics subject areas.

  • If an analysis is in development and you wish to share it with a Harvard colleague in order to collaborate, save it in Shared Folders > Harvard University > _Collaboration. (If you work on analyses in the _Collaboration folder, you may wish to keep a backup in My Folders, since analyses in this folder may be changed or deleted by others.)

  • If you have an analysis that is running well and you think it would be useful for other Harvard colleagues to use, you are encouraged to share it in Shared Folders > Harvard University > _for Harvard and email alma-imp-a-r@calists.harvard.edu.  

    • Analyses saved to the _For Harvard folder must have the description field filled in, and should not have any library-unit specific filters (hard-coded filters can be replaced with a prompt for shared analyses).

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Example of a Well-Named and -Described Analysis

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