What is eResearch@Flinders?

Amanda NixonManager, eResearch@Flinders

What is eResearch@Flinders?

• A service in the Library to support eResearch

• This means supporting the traditional areas of eResearch• Research data management• Collaboration• High Performance Computing• Visualisation

• We also provide• Support for Open Scholarship

• Flinders Academic Commons• ARC/NHMRC open access requirements

• Statistical Consulting• University’s Statistical Consultant, Pawel Skuza

What eResearch@Flinders does

• For high performance computing, collaboration and visualisation tools• We can refer researchers to new tools, provide advice and

broker the usage of new services• Eg Quadrant, the Genomics Virtual Laboratory and the

Australian Research Cloud

What eResearch@Flinders does

• For open scholarship– We operate the Flinders Academic Commons open access

repository– Provide a service to ensure open access requirements of

ARC and NHMRC are met• Copyright checking• Advise on appropriate versions• Metadata creation in accordance with requirements• Uploading to the repository• Advice on compliance at reporting time

– We can also provide an open access home for other publications

• Journals eg Transnational Literature• Reports eg The Australian Corneal Graft Registry 2012 Report

What eResearch@Flinders does

• Pawel Skuza, the University’s Statistical Consultant provides– One on one statistical consulting– Face to face training sessions for staff and HDR students– Access to online training for very advanced statistical

methodologies and software

What eResearch@Flinders does• For research data management

• We can support the creation of data management plans for research projects (excellent for ARC grant applications)

• Linking information about projects and researchers with the data to be created

• Estimates of data storage requirements• Ethics, privacy and any sensitivities• IP and copyright• Data Access and Reuse• Disposal

• We can refer researchers to different data storage options and broker the use of new services (including supporting/drafting applications for merit based storage)

• We can support open data requirements of research grants• We can create metadata records for datasets to be exposed

through Research Data Australia

The main takeaway

• eResearch@Flinders provides practical assistance to research to enable them to:– Abide by the research data management sections of the

Code– Comply with open access requirements of research grants

• Is here to help!