Resources from service providers across Cornell University
Collaboration tools
Tools and services for working with others.
Biotechnology Resource Center
- Bioinformatics facility
- Research support – Customized bioinformatics analysis, long-term research collaborations, and database development.
- Storage space and data sharing – Networked, local, and backup options for storage and collaboration.
Center for Advanced Computing
- Storage services – Archival storage and sharing of large files via Globus Online.
COE CIS Tech
- GitHub – Code hosting platform for version control, sharing, and collaboration.
Cornell Center for Social Sciences
- CCSS Research Support Compute Infrastructure – High-memory, multi-processor server environment tailored to social science research.
Cornell University Library
- Citation management software – Citation management software currently supported by Cornell University Library – includes Endnote, Zotero, Papers, and Mendeley.
- Open Science Framework (OSF) – Online collaboration tool and workflow platform with both hosted and add-on storage options for publishing research outputs, including data and code.
IT@Cornell
- Blog service – Centrally hosted blogs for teaching, research, and communications.
- Box – Share and collaborate on non-confidential documents and files.
- Confluence – Wiki software.
- Cornell Secure File Transfer – Secure file transfer or temporary transfer storage for files <5 GB.
- Google Workspace – Cloud-based tools from Google for collaboration and productivity.
- LabArchives – Cloud-based Electronic Lab Notebook software.
- OneDrive – Personal document and file storage hub for Office 365.
- Shared file services – File storage that enables sharing of files between groups of users and computers.
- Video on demand – Service to upload, manage, and share video and audio media.
- Web hosting services – Research web sites and other applications.
- Zoom – Web conferencing and collaboration.
Weill Cornell Medicine Clinical & Translational Science Center
- REDCap – Software infrastructure to develop study-specific Web-based data management systems.
Data collection and analysis
Tools and services for collecting, cleaning, transforming, describing, modeling, examining, and interpreting data.
Biotechnology Resource Center
- BioHPC Cloud computing – A cloud type computational resource configured for biologists offering multiple High Performance Computing servers, networked storage and over 300 bioinformatics software titles.
- Bioinformatics workshops – Targeted to biologists, and constantly updated, topics include BioHPC Cloud, Linux, genomics data analysis, and more.
- Research support – Customized bioinformatics analysis, long-term research collaborations, and database development.
- Software licensing – Centralized access to general, molecular biology, mass spectrometry and proteomics, and imaging software.
Center for Advanced Computing
- Code improvement consulting – Parallelization and optimizing of code.
- Database consulting – Design, implementation and performance optimization.
- High-performance computing services – Private cluster maintenance and web service leases.
- Programming consulting – Programming in multiple languages and platforms (C/C++, Perl, Python, Java, C#, MPI, OpenMP).
- Red Cloud Computing – On-demand research cloud computing.
COE CIS Tech
- GitHub – Code hosting platform for version control, sharing, and collaboration.
Cornell Center for Social Sciences
- CCSS Cloud computing solutions – High-memory, multi-processor server environment tailored to social science research.
- Workshops – Statistical software, CCSS-RS computing services, and selected data topics.
Cornell University Library
- Digital CoLab at Olin Library – Assistance with digital scholarship tools and approaches to data acquisition, cleaning and processing in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – Instruction, reference, consulting, computer hardware, software, and GIS resources.
- Open Science Framework (OSF) – Online collaboration tool and workflow platform with both hosted and add-on storage options for publishing research outputs, including data and code.
Cornell University Statistical Consulting Unit
- Statistical consulting services – Survey and experiment design, data analysis, statistical consultations, and more.
- Statistical workshops – Topics focus on application of statistical methods.
IT@Cornell
- Google Workspace – Cloud-based tools from Google for collaboration and productivity.
- Qualtrics (Survey Tool)– Enables Cornell users to create and distribute surveys to conduct research and gather information.
- Software licensing – Software purchase and licensing for the Cornell community.
Weill Cornell Medicine Clinical & Translational Science Center
- REDCap – Software infrastructure to develop study-specific Web-based data management systems.
Data curation and archiving
Tools and services to ensure that data are well-described and remain intact, accessible and understandable over time.
Cornell Center for Social Sciences
- Data & Reproduction Archive – Options for sharing your research data, with focus on labor, political and social behavior, demography, economics, and health.
- Results Reproduction (R-squared) – Service that computationally reproduces the results of data and code to ensure reproducibility and transparency.
Cornell University Library
- Data curation service – Assistance preparing and reviewing data for sharing and archiving.
Data sharing
Tools and services to make data publicly available, including those that satisfy Public Access policies requiring that the results of research are freely available to the public.
Center for Advanced Computing
- Storage services – Archival storage and sharing of large files via Globus Online.
- Web consulting – Web portal design services and web-based tools for research applications.
COE CIS Tech
- GitHub – Code hosting platform for version control, sharing, and collaboration.
Cornell Center for Social Sciences
- Data & Reproduction Archive – Options for sharing your research data, with focus on labor, political and social behavior, demography, economics, and health.
Cornell University Library
- Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR) – Assistance with metadata preparation for data distributed via CUGIR.
- Digital Consulting & Production Services (DCAPS) – Unified service point for digitization and imaging services, metadata, and support for publishing digital collections for research and instruction.
- eCommons – Cornell University Library’s permanent digital repository. See the eCommons Data Deposit Policy and language for Data Management Plans.
- Metadata Design and Operations – Consulting, production, and conversion of metadata; schema customization, and more.
- Open Science Framework (OSF) – Online collaboration tool and workflow platform with both hosted and add-on storage options for publishing research outputs, including data and code.
- Public Access Policies for Publications – Compliance support for Cornell authors who are required by funders to make their publications publicly accessible.
High performance computing
Tools and services related to the aggregation of compute power to deliver higher performance and solve complex computation problems.
Biotechnology Resource Center
- BioHPC Cloud computing – A cloud type computational resource configured for biologists offering multiple High Performance Computing servers, networked storage and over 300 bioinformatics software titles.
- Software licensing – Centralized access to general, molecular biology, mass spectrometry and proteomics, and imaging software.
Center for Advanced Computing
- Cloud computing – On-demand services such as Red Cloud, Red Cloud with MATLAB; private clouds.
- Code improvement consulting – Parallelization and optimizing of code.
- Database consulting – Design, implementation and performance optimization.
- High-performance computing services – Private cluster maintenance and web service leases.
- National cyberinfrastructure – Access to NSF XSEDE, DOE INCITE.
- Programming consulting – Programming in multiple languages and platforms (C/C++, Perl, Python, Java, C#, MPI, OpenMP).
Cornell Center for Social Sciences
- CCSS Cloud computing solutions – High-memory, multi-processor server environment tailored to social science research.
Intellectual property and copyright
Tools and services related to licensing of data and code, e.g. copyright, patents.
Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University
- Center for Technology Licensing – Cornell’s technology transfer office, handling material transfer agreements, patent applications, startup formation, and more.
Cornell University Library
- Copyright Support @ CUL – Detailed copyright information and support.
- Digital Consulting & Production Services (DCAPS) – Unified service point for digitization and imaging services, metadata, and support for publishing digital collections for research and instruction.
- Research Data & Open Scholarship – assistance with questions about licensing of data and code, OA, author rights, copyright, and Fair Use.
Institutional Review Board for Human Participants
- Institutional review board – Training, review, and approval for research involving human participants.
Legal services
- Handles all aspects of Cornell University-related legal services. To contact, call 607-255-5124.
University Policy Office
- Copyright Policy – Official Cornell University copyright policy.
- Inventions and Related Property Rights Policy – Official Cornell University inventions and related property rights policy.
- Research Data Retention Policy – Official Cornell University research data retention policy.
Metadata
Tools and services to help advise on documentation or information about a data set.
Cornell University Library
- Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR) – Assistance with metadata preparation for data distributed via CUGIR.
- Digital Consulting & Production Services (DCAPS) – Unified service point for digitization and imaging services, metadata, and support for publishing digital collections for research and instruction.
- Metadata Design and Operations – Consulting, production, and conversion of metadata; schema customization, and more.
Security, privacy, and confidentiality
Tools and services to help protect data and/or personal information from unauthorized access, modification, or destruction.
Cornell Center for Social Sciences
- CCSS Regulated Research Environment – Options for securing your research data.
- New York Research Data Center (NYRDC) – Access to selected confidential census microdata.
Cornell University Library
- Digital Privacy – Privacy risk consultations and digital privacy literacy workshops
Institutional Review Board for Human Participants
- Institutional review board – Training, review, and approval for research involving human participants.
IT@Cornell
- Certified Desktop – Service for faculty and staff that packages security tools to protect Cornell devices, data, and research.
- Encryption Overview – Information, policy, and tools.
- IT Risk Assessment and Compliance Advising – On-demand risk assessments to identify the vulnerabilities that could threaten the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.
- Qualtrics (Survey Tool) – Enables Cornell users to create and distribute surveys to conduct research and gather information.
- Travel Internationally with Technology – Precautions to protect your data while traveling abroad.
Weill Cornell Medicine Clinical & Translational Science Center
- Data Core – secure storage for research with HIPAA data and other constraints for Weill Cornell Medicine researchers and their collaborators
- REDCap – Software infrastructure to develop study-specific Web-based data management systems.
Storage, backup, and recovery
Tools and services that provide data storage, backup, versioning, or recovery of data.
Data Storage Finder
Evaluate options for data storage at Cornell using the Data Storage Finder tool.
Biotechnology Resource Center
- Information technology services – Evaluate desktop and network needs, procure and implement computational infrastructure, and provide comprehensive Bio-IT support.
- Research support – Customized bioinformatics analysis, long-term research collaborations, and database development.
Center for Advanced Computing
- Storage services – Archival storage and sharing of large files via Globus Online.
Cornell Campus Store
- Computer repair – Disk drive data recovery service provided by Tech Connect.
Cornell Center for Social Sciences
- CCSS Cloud Computing Solutions – High-memory, multi-processor server environment tailored to social science research.
Cornell University Library
- Open Science Framework (OSF) – Online collaboration tool and workflow platform with both hosted and add-on storage options for publishing research outputs, including data and code.
IT@Cornell
- Box – Share and collaborate on non-confidential documents and files.
- Certified Desktop – Service for faculty and staff that packages security tools to protect Cornell devices, data, and research.
- Cloud and Infrastructure Services – Public cloud services through enterprise agreements with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
- CrashPlan – Secure, real-time backup, archiving, and versioning of files for Cornell computers.
- Google Workspace – Cloud-based tools from Google for collaboration and productivity.
- LabArchives – Cloud-based Electronic Lab Notebook software.
- Media3 Managed Web Hosting – Cloud-based web hosting solution for research web sites and other applications.
- Shared file services – File storage that enables sharing of files between groups of users and computers.
Weill Cornell Medicine Clinical & Translational Science Center
- REDCap – Software infrastructure to develop study-specific Web-based data management systems.