Research Data and Open Scholarship (RDOS) supports the Cornell community in managing and sharing research outputs.
We facilitate ethical sharing of research and scholarship, while keeping the balance of making content “as open as possible, as closed as necessary.”
Research Data Services
RDOS provides training, consultations, and infrastructure to help Cornell researchers manage and steward research data with the services and resources listed below:
- Data curation and sharing support:
- Data Curation Network membership
- Consultation and instruction
- Outward facing educational website resources:
- Guidance 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
- Tools we support:
- Open Science Framework(OSF)
- LabArchives electronic lab notebook
- DMPTool
- Cornell Data Services (CDS) leadership and engagement
Open Scholarship Services
RDOS provides training, consultations, and infrastructure to support open scholarship at Cornell.
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.
- DSpace leadership
- DataCite membership
Open Scholarship Consultation and Education
- Author rights
- Copyright
- Fair use
- Open access
- Open educational resources
Local, National, and International Initiatives
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:
- 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
- Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit Faculty Advisory Board membership
- Cornell University New Faculty Infrastructure Support Group membership