Research Data and Open Scholarship

RDOS provides training, consultations, and infrastructure to help Cornell researchers manage and steward research data with the services and resources listed below:

Data stewardship consultation and instruction

• working with data throughout the life cycle
• Tools we support: 
  • Open Science Framework(OSF)
  • LabArchives electronic lab notebook
  • DMPTool

Data curation and sharing support

• Data Curation Network membership
• Data curation services

Cornell Data Services (CDS)

• Leadership and engagement in campus-wide Cornell Data Services group
• Website and educational resources for working with data throughout the life cycle
• Cornell Data Storage Finder
• Cornell services: comprehensive list of data-related services from campus providers
• Data management and sharing plans (DMSP)
• Funder data requirements for top Cornell funders

RDOS provides training, consultations, and infrastructure to support open scholarship at Cornell.

Persistent Identifier (PID) Creation, Management and Support  

PIDs make research and scholarship more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).

• ORCID (Open Research & Contributor iD)
  • A free and unique persistent digital identifier for researchers
• DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
  • A unique persistent digital identifier for any object: physical, digital, or abstract

eCommons Open Access Repository Services

• eCommons provides long-term access to Cornell-related digital content, including documents, research papers, images, data, code and software, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), and more.
• DSpace leadership
• DataCite membership

Open Scholarship Consultation and Education

We support open scholarship by helping researchers and authors understand their rights and the publishing process.

• Author rights
• Copyright
• Fair Use
• Publishing agreements
• Open Access (OA)
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Self-Archiving / Self-Deposit in a repository
• Other questions about publishing

Building relationships with Cornell leaders, researchers, and peers is critical to understanding needs, solutions, and what role the Library can play in closing those gaps. Examples of how we do this include: 

Cornell

• Cornell Research Security Compliance Committee and subgroups, including the Open Research Working Group 
• Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit Faculty Advisory Board  
• Cornell University New Faculty Infrastructure Support Group  

Institutional memberships

• Data Curation Network 
• Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS Open) and HELIOS Open working groups 
• Copyright First Responders (CFR) and Copyright First Responders-New York (CFR-NY)

National and international advisory work

• Re3Data Editorial Board
• DataCite America’s Expert Group
• DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) and DSpace Steering Governance Working Group