Research Data and Open Scholarship

RDOS supports the Cornell community in managing and sharing research outputs.

We facilitate ethical sharing of research and scholarship, and operate within the balance of content being “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”. 

Who We Are

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Our Core Services

Research Data Services 

  • Data curation and sharing support 

  • Consultation and instruction  

  • Outward facing educational website resources, including 

    • Best practice (“how-to”) guidance for working with data throughout the life cycle

    • Cornell Data Storage Finder

    • Cornell services list: comprehensive list of data-related services from campus providers

    • Information about and a review service for data management and sharing plans (DMSP)
    • Resources regarding DMSP requirements for top Cornell funders
  • Management and support for Open Science Framework(OSF) & LabArchives electronic lab notebook (in collaboration with CTI for LabArchives) 

  • DMPTool management 

  • Cornell Data Services (CDS) leadership and engagement (coordination, website maintenance, outreach leadership etc.) 

Persistent Identifier (PID) creation, management and support  

  • ORCID researcher identifiers

  • Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs, via DataCite) 

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.  

Open scholarship, scholarly communication and copyright consultation and education, and service to the larger professional community. 

  • DSpace Leadership 

  • DataCite  

Local, national and international collaborative initiatives and services 

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

  • Participation in the Cornell Research Security Compliance Committee and its subgroups, including the Open Research Working Group 

  • Leadership roles in the Data Curation Network 

  • Cornell representation on Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS) and HELIOS working groups 

  • Participation in the recent Cornell University Research Data Security Task Force 

  • Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit Faculty Advisory Board membership 

  • Cornell University New Faculty Infrastructure Support Group membership 

How to reach us:

Direct emails

  • Wendy Kozlowski (wak57)
  • Sarah J. Wright (sjw256)
  • Erica M. Johns (emj73)
  • Mike Priehs (mep324)

Service emails

  • Data Services (data-help@cornell.edu)
  • eCommons (ecommons-admin@cornell.edu)

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