Research Data and Open Scholarship – Cornell University Library

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