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In this online module, from the departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Biochemistry and Physiology, become familiar with key ideas to effectively plan, execute and complete tasks needed to reach your objective.
Jupyter is an open-source tool that supports interactive data science and scientific computing across programming languages. There is a JupyterHub at SciNet available for research use.
A set of resources designed to support the planning and delivery of Mock Peer Review.
What is research data? Where is the push towards formal Research Data Management coming from? What are the requirements of good data management? Research Data Management in the Canadian Context: A Guide for Practitioners and Learners looks at these questions and more, all with a focus on Canadian guidelines, regulations and infrastructure.
U of T Library resources to support researchers with information and guidance on research data management.
The workshop series on Research Data Management for biomedical researchers was developed by the Ottawa Data Champions Team and funded by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Access https://www.ohri.ca/journalology/ottawa-data-champions to learn more.
Compute Canada is a national governmental organization supporting advanced research computing (ARC) systems and storage, and provides support for large-scale, data-intensive research projects. Compute Canada includes SciNet, the supercomputer centre at the University of Toronto.
This online Event Management Toolkit created by York University provides a comprehensive how-to guide along with a checklist to track progress towards creating inclusive events.
UofT Archives has over 7,500 print items and 21,000 photographs digitized and available to view online for research
DMP Assistant is an all-purpose tool for preparing data management plans (DMPs). Researchers will be guided through best practices in data stewardship. The tool walks researchers step-by-step through a number of key questions about data management. Guidance and examples are provided.
Microsoft SharePoint Online is a secure cloud-based platform that enables groups to collaborate, share, store, and publish documents or web content.
U of T Dataverse is a multi-disciplinary repository open to U of T researchers to deposit and share research data. It can also be used to discover and reuse data produced by other researchers. Deposited datasets receive DOIs. Files are held in a secure environment on Canadian servers.
The BRU is a collaborative team of experienced statisticians providing biostatistical guidance to affiliated researchers throughout the life cycle of a project.
The Map and Data Library offers a rich and diverse set of supports and services related to maps, datasets, microdata, data visualization, statistics, geospatial data portals, research data management, and more.
The Alliance serves Canadian researchers, with the objective of advancing Canada’s position as a leader in the knowledge economy on the international stage. By integrating, championing and funding the infrastructure and activities required for advanced research computing (ARC), research data management (RDM) and research software (RS), the Alliance provides the platform for the research community to access tools and services.
These guidelines provide a simple approach to assessing and controlling the risk around the use of nanomaterials, even when the exact hazard presented by the materials is unknown. If you use or will use nanomaterials in the lab please use this guideline as a starting point for control measures.
The Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation website provides resources for researchers and staff related to conducting research at the University of Toronto, including research news, funding and nomination opportunities, events and workshops, forms and templates, and more.
An integral part of the methodological description of a systematic review and meta-analyses is a flow diagram. This tool allows you to produce a flow diagram for your own review that conforms to the PRISMA2020 Statement.
Microsoft Teams is a collaborative, cloud-based workspace and communications tool that allows users to share files, in addition to supporting private and channel-based messaging.
TSpace is an open access research repository established by University of Toronto Libraries to disseminate and preserve the scholarly record of the University of Toronto community, including faculty and graduate student research.
SOSCIP provides academic researchers with access to leading-edge advanced computing technology to foster innovative research and development projects with industry partners
Compute Canada deploys state-of-the-art advanced research computing systems and storage, and provides support for large-scale, data-intensive research projects. Compute Canada provides support to researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences that includes robust storage solutions.
Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet tool that can be used to store, organize, analyze and visualize data.
This introduction video describes institution-wide advanced research computing resources available through the University including: SciNet and Compute Canada; The Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP); and Project Jupyter.
The ITS Private Cloud service is an on-site U of T server and storage virtualization platform similar to public could providers.
The Carpentries builds global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. The Carpentries project comprises the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry communities that offer training in foundational computational and data science skills to researchers.
GitHub is a website offering storage and collaboration tools for software development, based on the version control system Git. Commonly used to host opensource software, it can also be used to host datasets.
Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure <odesi> is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard. <odesi> provides researchers the ability to search for survey questions (variables) across thousands of datasets. There are both microdata and aggregate data available, in a range of formats.
Find out about available tools and supports to collect and store research data securely.
FRDR is a platform for digital Research Data Management (RDM) and a robust repository option into which large research datasets can be ingested, curated, processed for preservation, discovered, cited, and shared.
U of T Library’s Digital Preservation and Recovery Service offers tools and services to manage digital content, such as digital preservation, data recovery or media carrier preservation, and more.
Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It includes repositories that enable permanent storage of and access to data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions.
Principles of ownership, control, access, and possession (OCAP®) assert that First Nations have control over data collection processes, and own and control how this information can be used. The First Nations Information Governance Centre offers education and training to help understand and respect OCAP®.
Chapter 9 of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2) is designed to serve as a framework for the ethical conduct of research involving Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Guidelines prepared by the Ethics Office of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), in conjunction with its Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health, to assist researchers and institutions in carrying out ethical and culturally competent research involving Aboriginal people.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has a number of tools specifically intended to support applicants working in Indigenous research; merit reviewers assessing applications related to Indigenous research; and communities and other research partners engaged in Indigenous research.
Online platform aggregating basic info regarding U of T and affiliated institution research projects and the resources that can be used to support COVID-19 related efforts (may require request to access).
Collections U of T provides access to U of T digital special collections, as well as scholarly digital projects.
Located in MN building at UTM, CDRS has three spaces available suitable for small research project team meetings, symposia, or conferences. Video conferencing, white boards, and kitchenette available. Weekly and on-going research support programming, see EVE or CDRS’ calendar.
Security Planner is an easy-to-use guide with expert-reviewed advice for staying safer online. It provides recommendations on implementing basic online practices. Security Planner is a project of the Citizen Lab, a group based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at U of T.
This document is the second edition of a compilation of resources addressed to junior researchers whose social research projects have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Published by the University of Washington’s Earth Lab.
U of T’s information security awareness and education initiative.
The UTM Safe Travels Pilot Program was developed to help U of T faculty and staff safeguard U of T data when traveling abroad. The pilot program includes a pre-travel security consultation and laptop loan program.
The Systematic and Scoping Review Collaboration (SSRC) connects University of Toronto health science researchers with librarians, who partner as co-authors in the planning, execution, and writing of knowledge synthesis studies.
Suite of desktop and online Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. GIS software allows for the compilation, analysis and visualization of geographic data. The suite includes, among many others, ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, StoryMaps
Data conversion and transformation software with a focus on geospatial formats.
Gephi is an open-source software for network visualization and analysis.
Global Mapper is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) desktop software, specializing in spacial data processing, analysis and visualization.
FADIS is an art and architecture repository and teaching tool consisting of over 250,000 digital images, videos and audio files with accompanying metadata for private study and research.
NVivo software is designed to help researchers organize, code, and analyze qualitative and mixed methods research data.
A citation management tool which allows you to keep track of your citations used in your research. Users can also annotate and organize research, while collaborating with other colleagues on campus.
SAS is a powerful, feature-rich, statistical analysis program. It is used in a wide variety of disciplines.
Geospatial datasets collection portal. Includes land-based vector data (water, cultural features, etc.), census geography, orthophotography, and more
The SPSS software platform offers advanced statistical analysis, a vast library of machine learning algorithms, text analysis, open source extensibility, integration with other applications.
Open source citation management tool which helps you collect, organize, cite and share research.
Reference management software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references.
Open source tool for exploring, cleaning and manipulating “messy” data.
SciNet is Canada’s largest supercomputer centre, providing Canadian researchers with computational resources and expertise necessary to perform their research. They also offer free education and training on advanced computing skills
The Toronto Region Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC) is a secure computer lab where approved researchers can access and analyze confidential microdata from Statistics Canada surveys and administrative databases, including Census data, General Social Surveys (GSS), and Canadian Community Health Surveys (CCHS).
Microsoft OneDrive is a secure, personal, cloud-based document management and file storage application, with sharing capabilities that include editing.
Academic researchers can request a modest amount of storage for research data at no cost. Resources are available through ‘opportunistic use’, i.e., a shared pool of unallocated resources.
Tableau Desktop is a commercial program used to create data visualizations and interactive dashboards. Researchers at U of T can get a free 1-year license for non-commercial academic research or teaching.
CanPath provides health, behavioural, genomic and environmental data, as well as biological samples, from over 330,00 Canadian participants to researchers investigating environmental, lifestyle and genetic factors related to the development and progression of cancer and chronic diseases.
CANUE is a consortium made up of voluntary members from the multi-disciplinary fields of environmental health research, health policy, and urban design and planning. CANUE collates and generates standard measures of environmental factors and provides these data to the Canadian research community.
The mandate of the DHN is to design and support initiatives that raise awareness and build upon U of T’s existing strengths in the digital humanities. The DHN supports initiatives that encompass interpretative or theoretical work on a wide variety of computational approaches to humanities research.
Access the latest COVID-19 funding opportunities, data and visualizations, and collaboration opportunities.
Gale Digital Scholar Lab allows researchers and students to create corpora and perform computational analyses on Gale Collections materials.
Digital Scholarship Services at the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) supports research using digital methods and tools (e.g. text and data mining), and provides help with APIs.
Through a combination of videos, web pages, quizzes, and activities, this self-paced online course will provide an introduction to OpenRefine, a powerful open source tool for exploring, cleaning and manipulating “messy” data.
Online modules included in this toolkit introduce key concepts, definitions, and short video lectures from research experts on integrating sex and gender into a variety of research methodologies – from secondary data analysis to concept mapping.
CADRE is a cloud-based text and data mining service for large datasets. Over 220 million scientific publications and 1.7 billion citations can be queried and analyzed.
Geodisy is an open-source geospatial discovery platform for Canadian open research data. It indexes datasets from Dataverse repositories, as well as bounding box metadata from all repositories harvested by Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR).
This document provides a comparison of REDCap and Microsoft Form features, and provides suggestions about appropriate use cases.
Through a combination of videos, web pages, quizzes, and activities, this self-paced online course will use a data visualization design workflow model to introduce participants to best practices and guidelines for designing effective visualizations and evaluating visualizations. Self-enroll using your UTORid.
Through a combination of videos, web pages, quizzes, and activities, this self-paced online course will introduce participants to a common data visualization tool, Tableau Desktop. Self-enroll using your UTORid.
This information video describes the use of data repositories for long-term storage and sharing of research data. The video discusses U of T Dataverse and TSpace and provides resources for identifying external repositories.
Working in Good Ways, from the University of Manitoba, offers practical strategies that community engaged learning practitioners can apply at different stages of their work with Indigenous communities.
These interactive modules by CIHR are designed to help researchers and peer reviewers account for and appropriately assess the integration of sex and gender across multiple areas of health research.
This is an illustrated web-resource to help community-engaged practitioners navigate the opportunities and tensions of hosting gatherings, meetings, and workshops online and remotely in the context of COVID-19.
This information video introduces digital research preservation in the context of the research data lifecycle and describes institution-wide digital preservation resources available at U of T.
IPHCC has developed the Ne’iikaanigaana Toolkit-Creating Safer Environments for Indigenous Peoples, to support organizations on their journey towards cultural safety.
Start your entrepreneurship journey by completing these online training modules that teach you core management principles to help perfect your business plans and pitches.
This website provides investigators with research methods resources to help them design their studies using the best available methods. The material is relevant to both randomized and non-randomized trials, human and animal studies, and basic and applied research.
A suite of training videos from the Data Literacy Training Initiative, aimed at those who are new to data or those who have some experience with data but may need a refresher or want to expand their knowledge.
The Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation has a dedicated Research Security Team (RST) who provide advice and support to researchers, academic administrators, staff, and trainees on funding applications, sponsor requirements, and institutional decision-making by assessing risks through the lens of research security, informed by national security, and geopolitical security evidence.
The Alliance participates in Cybersecurity Awareness Month each year in October to help train and support Canadian researchers with the latest cybersecurity practices to help safeguard them and their research. In 2023, the Cybersecurity Training and Awareness Working Group coordinated a series of cybersecurity webinars, workshops and presentations. Recordings of these sessions are now available.
This event was a collaboration between the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Borealis, and the Alliance’s Curation Events Working Group. In the ever-evolving digital landscape, the management of research data, including data licensing and copyright, is of utmost importance. This 2-hour workshop will provide a forum for participants to learn more about data licensing and copyright. Led by Learning and Training Manager Shanna Hollich from Creative Commons, this event aims to equip participants with the knowledge and best practices they need to effectively navigate the complexities of data licensing and copyright.
In this online module, from the departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Biochemistry and Physiology, become familiar with key ideas to effectively plan, execute and complete tasks needed to reach your objective.
Jupyter is an open-source tool that supports interactive data science and scientific computing across programming languages. There is a JupyterHub at SciNet available for research use.
A set of resources designed to support the planning and delivery of Mock Peer Review.
U of T Library resources to support researchers with information and guidance on research data management.
The workshop series on Research Data Management for biomedical researchers was developed by the Ottawa Data Champions Team and funded by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. Access https://www.ohri.ca/journalology/ottawa-data-champions to learn more.
Compute Canada is a national governmental organization supporting advanced research computing (ARC) systems and storage, and provides support for large-scale, data-intensive research projects. Compute Canada includes SciNet, the supercomputer centre at the University of Toronto.
DMP Assistant is an all-purpose tool for preparing data management plans (DMPs). Researchers will be guided through best practices in data stewardship. The tool walks researchers step-by-step through a number of key questions about data management. Guidance and examples are provided.
Microsoft SharePoint Online is a secure cloud-based platform that enables groups to collaborate, share, store, and publish documents or web content.
U of T Dataverse is a multi-disciplinary repository open to U of T researchers to deposit and share research data. It can also be used to discover and reuse data produced by other researchers. Deposited datasets receive DOIs. Files are held in a secure environment on Canadian servers.
The BRU is a collaborative team of experienced statisticians providing biostatistical guidance to affiliated researchers throughout the life cycle of a project.
The Alliance serves Canadian researchers, with the objective of advancing Canada’s position as a leader in the knowledge economy on the international stage. By integrating, championing and funding the infrastructure and activities required for advanced research computing (ARC), research data management (RDM) and research software (RS), the Alliance provides the platform for the research community to access tools and services.
These guidelines provide a simple approach to assessing and controlling the risk around the use of nanomaterials, even when the exact hazard presented by the materials is unknown. If you use or will use nanomaterials in the lab please use this guideline as a starting point for control measures.
The Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation website provides resources for researchers and staff related to conducting research at the University of Toronto, including research news, funding and nomination opportunities, events and workshops, forms and templates, and more.
An integral part of the methodological description of a systematic review and meta-analyses is a flow diagram. This tool allows you to produce a flow diagram for your own review that conforms to the PRISMA2020 Statement.
Microsoft Teams is a collaborative, cloud-based workspace and communications tool that allows users to share files, in addition to supporting private and channel-based messaging.
TSpace is an open access research repository established by University of Toronto Libraries to disseminate and preserve the scholarly record of the University of Toronto community, including faculty and graduate student research.
Compute Canada deploys state-of-the-art advanced research computing systems and storage, and provides support for large-scale, data-intensive research projects. Compute Canada provides support to researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences that includes robust storage solutions.
Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet tool that can be used to store, organize, analyze and visualize data.
This introduction video describes institution-wide advanced research computing resources available through the University including: SciNet and Compute Canada; The Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform (SOSCIP); and Project Jupyter.
The ITS Private Cloud service is an on-site U of T server and storage virtualization platform similar to public could providers.
The Carpentries builds global capacity in essential data and computational skills for conducting efficient, open, and reproducible research. The Carpentries project comprises the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry communities that offer training in foundational computational and data science skills to researchers.
GitHub is a website offering storage and collaboration tools for software development, based on the version control system Git. Commonly used to host opensource software, it can also be used to host datasets.
Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure <odesi> is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard. <odesi> provides researchers the ability to search for survey questions (variables) across thousands of datasets. There are both microdata and aggregate data available, in a range of formats.
Find out about available tools and supports to collect and store research data securely.
FRDR is a platform for digital Research Data Management (RDM) and a robust repository option into which large research datasets can be ingested, curated, processed for preservation, discovered, cited, and shared.
U of T Library’s Digital Preservation and Recovery Service offers tools and services to manage digital content, such as digital preservation, data recovery or media carrier preservation, and more.
Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It includes repositories that enable permanent storage of and access to data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions.
Principles of ownership, control, access, and possession (OCAP®) assert that First Nations have control over data collection processes, and own and control how this information can be used. The First Nations Information Governance Centre offers education and training to help understand and respect OCAP®.
Chapter 9 of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2) is designed to serve as a framework for the ethical conduct of research involving Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Guidelines prepared by the Ethics Office of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), in conjunction with its Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health, to assist researchers and institutions in carrying out ethical and culturally competent research involving Aboriginal people.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has a number of tools specifically intended to support applicants working in Indigenous research; merit reviewers assessing applications related to Indigenous research; and communities and other research partners engaged in Indigenous research.
Online platform aggregating basic info regarding U of T and affiliated institution research projects and the resources that can be used to support COVID-19 related efforts (may require request to access).
Collections U of T provides access to U of T digital special collections, as well as scholarly digital projects.
Security Planner is an easy-to-use guide with expert-reviewed advice for staying safer online. It provides recommendations on implementing basic online practices. Security Planner is a project of the Citizen Lab, a group based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at U of T.
This document is the second edition of a compilation of resources addressed to junior researchers whose social research projects have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Published by the University of Washington’s Earth Lab.
The Systematic and Scoping Review Collaboration (SSRC) connects University of Toronto health science researchers with librarians, who partner as co-authors in the planning, execution, and writing of knowledge synthesis studies.
Suite of desktop and online Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. GIS software allows for the compilation, analysis and visualization of geographic data. The suite includes, among many others, ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, StoryMaps
Data conversion and transformation software with a focus on geospatial formats.
Gephi is an open-source software for network visualization and analysis.
Global Mapper is a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) desktop software, specializing in spacial data processing, analysis and visualization.
FADIS is an art and architecture repository and teaching tool consisting of over 250,000 digital images, videos and audio files with accompanying metadata for private study and research.
NVivo software is designed to help researchers organize, code, and analyze qualitative and mixed methods research data.
A citation management tool which allows you to keep track of your citations used in your research. Users can also annotate and organize research, while collaborating with other colleagues on campus.
SAS is a powerful, feature-rich, statistical analysis program. It is used in a wide variety of disciplines.
Geospatial datasets collection portal. Includes land-based vector data (water, cultural features, etc.), census geography, orthophotography, and more
The SPSS software platform offers advanced statistical analysis, a vast library of machine learning algorithms, text analysis, open source extensibility, integration with other applications.
Open source citation management tool which helps you collect, organize, cite and share research.
Reference management software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references.
Open source tool for exploring, cleaning and manipulating “messy” data.
Microsoft OneDrive is a secure, personal, cloud-based document management and file storage application, with sharing capabilities that include editing.
Academic researchers can request a modest amount of storage for research data at no cost. Resources are available through ‘opportunistic use’, i.e., a shared pool of unallocated resources.
Tableau Desktop is a commercial program used to create data visualizations and interactive dashboards. Researchers at U of T can get a free 1-year license for non-commercial academic research or teaching.
CanPath provides health, behavioural, genomic and environmental data, as well as biological samples, from over 330,00 Canadian participants to researchers investigating environmental, lifestyle and genetic factors related to the development and progression of cancer and chronic diseases.
CANUE is a consortium made up of voluntary members from the multi-disciplinary fields of environmental health research, health policy, and urban design and planning. CANUE collates and generates standard measures of environmental factors and provides these data to the Canadian research community.
The mandate of the DHN is to design and support initiatives that raise awareness and build upon U of T’s existing strengths in the digital humanities. The DHN supports initiatives that encompass interpretative or theoretical work on a wide variety of computational approaches to humanities research.
Access the latest COVID-19 funding opportunities, data and visualizations, and collaboration opportunities.
Gale Digital Scholar Lab allows researchers and students to create corpora and perform computational analyses on Gale Collections materials.
Digital Scholarship Services at the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) supports research using digital methods and tools (e.g. text and data mining), and provides help with APIs.
Online modules included in this toolkit introduce key concepts, definitions, and short video lectures from research experts on integrating sex and gender into a variety of research methodologies – from secondary data analysis to concept mapping.
CADRE is a cloud-based text and data mining service for large datasets. Over 220 million scientific publications and 1.7 billion citations can be queried and analyzed.
Geodisy is an open-source geospatial discovery platform for Canadian open research data. It indexes datasets from Dataverse repositories, as well as bounding box metadata from all repositories harvested by Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR).
This document provides a comparison of REDCap and Microsoft Form features, and provides suggestions about appropriate use cases.
Through a combination of videos, web pages, quizzes, and activities, this self-paced online course will use a data visualization design workflow model to introduce participants to best practices and guidelines for designing effective visualizations and evaluating visualizations. Self-enroll using your UTORid.
Through a combination of videos, web pages, quizzes, and activities, this self-paced online course will introduce participants to a common data visualization tool, Tableau Desktop. Self-enroll using your UTORid.
This information video describes the use of data repositories for long-term storage and sharing of research data. The video discusses U of T Dataverse and TSpace and provides resources for identifying external repositories.
Working in Good Ways, from the University of Manitoba, offers practical strategies that community engaged learning practitioners can apply at different stages of their work with Indigenous communities.
These interactive modules by CIHR are designed to help researchers and peer reviewers account for and appropriately assess the integration of sex and gender across multiple areas of health research.
This is an illustrated web-resource to help community-engaged practitioners navigate the opportunities and tensions of hosting gatherings, meetings, and workshops online and remotely in the context of COVID-19.
This information video introduces digital research preservation in the context of the research data lifecycle and describes institution-wide digital preservation resources available at U of T.
IPHCC has developed the Ne’iikaanigaana Toolkit-Creating Safer Environments for Indigenous Peoples, to support organizations on their journey towards cultural safety.
Start your entrepreneurship journey by completing these online training modules that teach you core management principles to help perfect your business plans and pitches.
This website provides investigators with research methods resources to help them design their studies using the best available methods. The material is relevant to both randomized and non-randomized trials, human and animal studies, and basic and applied research.
A suite of training videos from the Data Literacy Training Initiative, aimed at those who are new to data or those who have some experience with data but may need a refresher or want to expand their knowledge.
The Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation has a dedicated Research Security Team (RST) who provide advice and support to researchers, academic administrators, staff, and trainees on funding applications, sponsor requirements, and institutional decision-making by assessing risks through the lens of research security, informed by national security, and geopolitical security evidence.
In this online module, from the departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Biochemistry and Physiology, become familiar with key ideas to effectively plan, execute and complete tasks needed to reach your objective.
Microsoft SharePoint Online is a secure cloud-based platform that enables groups to collaborate, share, store, and publish documents or web content.
The Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation website provides resources for researchers and staff related to conducting research at the University of Toronto, including research news, funding and nomination opportunities, events and workshops, forms and templates, and more.
Security Planner is an easy-to-use guide with expert-reviewed advice for staying safer online. It provides recommendations on implementing basic online practices. Security Planner is a project of the Citizen Lab, a group based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at U of T.
U of T’s information security awareness and education initiative.
Microsoft OneDrive is a secure, personal, cloud-based document management and file storage application, with sharing capabilities that include editing.
This document provides a comparison of REDCap and Microsoft Form features, and provides suggestions about appropriate use cases.
The Division of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation has a dedicated Research Security Team (RST) who provide advice and support to researchers, academic administrators, staff, and trainees on funding applications, sponsor requirements, and institutional decision-making by assessing risks through the lens of research security, informed by national security, and geopolitical security evidence.
The Map and Data Library offers a rich and diverse set of supports and services related to maps, datasets, microdata, data visualization, statistics, geospatial data portals, research data management, and more.
The Alliance serves Canadian researchers, with the objective of advancing Canada’s position as a leader in the knowledge economy on the international stage. By integrating, championing and funding the infrastructure and activities required for advanced research computing (ARC), research data management (RDM) and research software (RS), the Alliance provides the platform for the research community to access tools and services.
SOSCIP provides academic researchers with access to leading-edge advanced computing technology to foster innovative research and development projects with industry partners
FRDR is a platform for digital Research Data Management (RDM) and a robust repository option into which large research datasets can be ingested, curated, processed for preservation, discovered, cited, and shared.
The Systematic and Scoping Review Collaboration (SSRC) connects University of Toronto health science researchers with librarians, who partner as co-authors in the planning, execution, and writing of knowledge synthesis studies.
SciNet is Canada’s largest supercomputer centre, providing Canadian researchers with computational resources and expertise necessary to perform their research. They also offer free education and training on advanced computing skills
The Toronto Region Statistics Canada Research Data Centre (RDC) is a secure computer lab where approved researchers can access and analyze confidential microdata from Statistics Canada surveys and administrative databases, including Census data, General Social Surveys (GSS), and Canadian Community Health Surveys (CCHS).
CanPath provides health, behavioural, genomic and environmental data, as well as biological samples, from over 330,00 Canadian participants to researchers investigating environmental, lifestyle and genetic factors related to the development and progression of cancer and chronic diseases.
CANUE is a consortium made up of voluntary members from the multi-disciplinary fields of environmental health research, health policy, and urban design and planning. CANUE collates and generates standard measures of environmental factors and provides these data to the Canadian research community.
The mandate of the DHN is to design and support initiatives that raise awareness and build upon U of T’s existing strengths in the digital humanities. The DHN supports initiatives that encompass interpretative or theoretical work on a wide variety of computational approaches to humanities research.
Digital Scholarship Services at the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) supports research using digital methods and tools (e.g. text and data mining), and provides help with APIs.
This online Event Management Toolkit created by York University provides a comprehensive how-to guide along with a checklist to track progress towards creating inclusive events.
Online platform aggregating basic info regarding U of T and affiliated institution research projects and the resources that can be used to support COVID-19 related efforts (may require request to access).
Located in MN building at UTM, CDRS has three spaces available suitable for small research project team meetings, symposia, or conferences. Video conferencing, white boards, and kitchenette available. Weekly and on-going research support programming, see EVE or CDRS’ calendar.
