OSRDS offers a variety of consultation services for libraries and academic departments in the areas of open scholarship and research data. Contact HL_OSRDS@harvard.edu with your questions and to set up an appointment.
Open Scholarship Consultations
Get help with open access, open licenses, rights retention, and sharing research.
Consultation Areas
- Depositing and managing your scholarship in DASH
- Open access publishing models and policies
- Author-publisher agreements and negotiation strategy
- Editing and managing no-fee open access journals
- Claiming your ORCID and connecting it to Harvard
- Open licenses, open repositories, open infrastructure
Consultation Services
DASH
Share your scholarship freely and globally by depositing it in Harvard’s open access institutional repository, DASH. OSRDS offers consultations to Harvard scholars on the benefits of DASH, how to submit your current or past work(s) to the repository, what to expect after DASH deposit, unpack publisher requested open access waivers, and compliance with funder mandates requiring open access via a repository. We offer personalized one-on-one assistance, group presentations (either in-person or online), and email correspondence. Reach out to us to schedule a consultation.
ORCID
Your ORCID iD, a free and unique persistent identifier, distinguishes you from other researchers, linking to a profile you control and populate with information defining who you are, as well as your research, publications, affiliations, awards, and grants. By linking your ORCID iD through Harvard ORCID Connect, you enable internal scholarly and administrative systems at Harvard to access and update your public and trusted ORCID data. Our OSRDS team is available to assist Harvard scholars in navigating the ORCID environment and to help administrators integrate their Harvard-based systems with the central university ORCID hub. If you’re a scholar or system administrator, don’t hesitate to contact us for assistance.
Open Access Publishing Models & Policies
Open access encompasses a wide variety of scholarly activities across all research disciplines and modes of publishing. Learn more about open access publishing models, policies, and open licenses so that you can choose the right venue for your research and make informed decisions about how to share your work freely and openly.
Librarians are also welcome to consult with us on open access publishing models and policies.
Author-Publisher Agreements & Negotiation Strategy
The publishing process can be long and complex, from submission and peer review to acceptance and production—all before the scholarship is ultimately published. When authors’ work is accepted by their publisher, they receive an author-publisher agreement that governs the work and its use. Author-publisher agreements, too, can be long and complex. But agreements need not be intimidating.
Learn how to read your agreement, understand your rights and obligations and those of the publisher, and how you can negotiate to retain key rights and abilities to reuse and share your work.
Guidance for Editors
Are you an editor of an open access journal or edition that will be published open access? Get guidance for policy development, implementing open licenses, investigating open source infrastructure and journal management systems, and how to adhere to best practices in scholarly publishing.
Research Data Consultations
Get help with research data management, sharing, curation, and education.
Consultation Areas
- Data management and sharing-related policies
- Writing a data management and sharing plan in DMPTool
- Selecting or publishing data in a data repository
- Curating data and software for reuse
- Data management practices and strategies (e.g., file naming, documentation, metadata)
- Data management tools (e.g., Open Science Framework, protocols.io)
- Using public data repositories and databases
Consultation Services
Research Data Management
OSRDS’ Data Librarians provide personalized consultations to support researchers, labs, and departments across every stage of the research data lifecycle—from planning and data organization to dissemination and preservation. We work closely with research teams to address unique data management needs, design workflows, and implement recommended practices to ensure the usability and longevity of research data.
With access to a network of campus-wide disciplinary and technical specialists, we offer collaborative guidance and training, including data management and sharing plan reviews, reproducible workflow design, repository recommendations, and instructional sessions.
Data Curation
OSRDS offers data curation consultations to ensure that published research data meets FAIR guidelines—Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. Our specialists provide tailored guidance on data organization, annotation, and repository selection, helping researchers prepare complete, well-documented, and accessible datasets that align with repository standards.
We also partner with departments and research teams on data-related projects. Engaging early in the research process is recommended for optimal data preservation and accessibility.