OSRDS provides services and tools to help the Harvard community manage and share its scholarly outputs and establish best practices for open research throughout the research lifecycle. For assistance, please contact us at HL_OSRDS@harvard.edu.
Carpentries Workshops
Carpentries workshops teach foundational coding and data science skills, with instruction that includes hands-on exercises and live coding. OSRDS coordinates Harvard’s offerings of workshops using Carpentries curricula, provided by data and technology professionals across the University, to Harvard researchers and staff.
DASH
DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) is a central, open-access repository for research by members of the Harvard community. Deposited works receive persistent URLs, are comprehensively indexed by search engines, reach academic and non-academic readers who may not have access to the original publications, and are preserved by Harvard Library.
Harvard Dataverse
Harvard Dataverse is an open online repository for sharing, preserving, citing, exploring, and analyzing research data. It is open to all researchers, inside and outside of Harvard. Dataverse offers advanced searching and text mining in over 2,000 dataverses, 75,000 datasets, and 350,000+ files, representing institutions, groups, and individuals at Harvard and beyond.
DMPTool
DMPTool is an open-source application for creating and sharing data management plans (DMPs), a best practice for managing research data. The tool provides step-by-step guidance, including templates and sample plans, for addressing requirements specific to Harvard and to the user’s funding sources.
Open Science Framework
OSF is an open-source project management tool that helps users collaborate on, manage, and share documents, datasets, and other information throughout a project’s lifecycle.
ORCID
An ORCID iD is a unique persistent identifier that distinguishes the user from other researchers, linking to a profile that the individual can control and populate with information. ORCID provides a standardized way for researchers to share profile information across various platforms. Harvard researchers can create their ORCID iD through Harvard ORCID Connect.
Harvard Open Journals Program
The Harvard Open Journals Program provides guidance, resources, and seed funding for establishing and maintaining high-quality open access journals. HOJP aims to advance the equitable and sustainable publication of open access journals at no cost to readers seeking access and no cost to authors seeking to publish. HOJP complements Harvard Library’s additional efforts to support no-fee open access publishing as part of our commitment to advance open knowledge. Read the announcement about HOJP.
Open Access Sponsorships
Open access sponsorships are financial contributions provided by Harvard Library, with guidance from OSRDS, in support of open access initiatives. Reflecting our collective aim of advancing open knowledge, these initiatives do not charge authors, readers, or users any fees and comply with industry-supported best practices and standards. Candidates for sponsorship represent smaller-dollar funding opportunities and may be memberships; networks; tools and infrastructure; and journals or collections not already included in traditional collections workflows and not offered by major publishers through existing library-side arrangements.