Information security can conduct user account investigations to support policy and legal incidents.

The RDM Team provides guidance on finding secure storage solutions to keep research data safe.

Providing access to and support for these systems for computational tasks during data analysis.

Explore the Alliance's upcoming ARC training.

Assist researchers in generating visualizations and analyzing complex results from HPC to support the publication of findings and sharing of insights.

Dedicated Programming support competition offers significant support to make the researcher’s software use our resources efficiently.

A Software Management Plan (SMP) details how a software project is developed, maintained, and curated, ensuring long-term accessibility and usability.

Antimalware provisioning and monitoring (Cortex XDR / Trend Micro) to protect against a spectrum of threats like ransomware.

Explore the Canadian Research Software Platforms.

Access to VMs in the cloud, to host research portals, host persistent research analysis software etc.

Preserving, depositing and citing code used to generate data and results to fulfil funding and publication requirements and facilitate reproducibility.

Assist researchers in identifying software needs and defining project requirements for custom software development to support their research goals.

Develop tailored software solutions to collect, analyze, or visualize research data, ensuring that the tools are aligned with the project's specific needs.

The DASH program is developed to assist with data analysis and software applications such as Excel, SPSS, and other statistical software.

Data curation primers are peer-reviewed, living documents that detail a specific subject, disciplinary area or curation task and that can be used as a reference to curate research data.

Data Deposit or sharing may be required by a funding agency or journal, or to support reproducibility or open science.

DMP Assistant is a national, online, bilingual data management planning tool developed by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) in collaboration with host institution University of Alberta to assist researchers in preparing data management plans (DMPs).

This database gathers examples from across the world including DMPs from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Qualitative DMP Competition, DataOne, Digital Curation Centre, Liber, the Working Group on NIH DMSP Guidance, and UC San Diego Research Data Curation into one searchable, open-access platform.

A Data Management Plan (DMP) describes how you will manage, store, secure, document, and share research data.

RDM provides storage solutions and backup support throughout data collection and analysis.

Assistance with visualization and survey tools (e.g. LimeSurvey).

The Help Desk provides how-to guides for the biological and biomedical research community to help them navigate and adopt data sharing policies and practices.

The Digital Research Kickstarter aims to better equip researchers to work within McMaster’s digital research environment.

Explore the Newsletters,

Information security provides remote access to on-premises infrastructure through our firewall (e.g. specialty microscopes).

The Information Security team provides comment and attestation on security controls that may be required by commercial partnerships.

MacSphere is McMaster University’s Institutional Repository (IR). The purpose of an IR is to bring together all of a University's research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide access to that research.

RHPCS offers hardware and software options during the project planning phase of a research project.

SHARCNet / Digital Research Alliance of Canada guidance on whether researchers need to apply for our annual Resources Allocation Competition and help with the application if needed.

Explore the Alliance's ARC Resources.

Explore SHARCNet's training portal.

Access powerful computing clusters that enable researchers to process large datasets, run complex simulations, and perform advanced analyses more efficiently. The resources include CPUs, GPUs, memory, and storage.

ORCID is a free, unique, persistent identifier (PID) for individuals to use as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. Learn how ORCID can help you spend more time conducting your research and less time managing it.

Manage secure access for collaborators, including setting up special accounts for external partners who need to use our Office 365 tools.

Detect, contain and remediate malware and other situations, such as compromised credentials.

General Information Security resources that would be useful for researchers at McMaster.

Provides baseline training for information security awareness, along with specialized research topics.

Information Security assists local IT teams with security planning and risk assessment.

As a leading research institution, it is critical that research related information is properly protected at McMaster.

This webpage provides an overview of what those services are and who to contact to receive them.

Identify appropriate and impactful avenues for disseminating their research. Repository guidance for non-traditional research outputs (e.g. software, performances, artworks, etc.)

The Office of the Vice President, Research offers our research community free access to the survey service, LimeSurvey, 'Central Instance' - a tool that allows survey data to be collected and stored locally (on-campus).

McMaster Experts is McMaster University’s researcher and expertise discovery gateway that aims to facilitate collaboration among academic researchers and spark increased engagement with other communities in academia, industry, and the media, locally, nationally, and internationally.

The purpose of the Indigenous Research Primer is to guide those at McMaster University who are engaging with Indigenous Peoples and communities in their research.

McMaster University Dataverse is a research data repository for our faculty, students, and staff. Researchers can choose to make content available publicly, to specific individuals, or to keep it private.

Explore the Resources.

Multi-factor authentication is an easy way to protect your Microsoft 365 email and calendaring service.

This document provides information about the possible network configurations for research labs and offices at McMaster.

This learning module intends to provide guidance on how to prepare for and improve reproducibility in your research software based on the FAIR principles.

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RHPCS supports the computational and digital research infrastructure needs of researchers from all disciplines across campus.

Explore the resource wiki

McMaster’s research centres, institutes and core platforms bring researchers together to solve complex problems.

Open access to data allows for the verification and reproduction of research. The best way to share data is to publish it on a recognized data repository.

Request a research consultation during any stage of research.

Every research project has a different set of data storage needs and these must be matched with the feature sets of data storage platforms to find the best platform for the data.

Explore the Alliance's RDM Training Resources.

This interactive tool lists various data storage and backup providers recommended by the Research Data Management team at McMaster.

Explore the Library's research tools & training.

Research Impact Service supports individuals, groups, and departments as they seek to understand the impact of their own work and identify opportunities for extending their reach.

Access the Research Software Development team's Learning Modules.

Developing and supporting software development for researchers, research groups and research facilities.

The Research Software Directory is designed to show the impact research software has on research and society.

The Research Software Licensing Catalogue is a searchable resource for researchers at McMaster to assist in identifying available software licenses and research software support. Requires signing in with a MacID, as the information is only accessible to the McMaster Community.

This handbook describes best practices around information security for researchers.

The Resource Allocation Competition (RAC) enables faculty members and their research groups to access compute, storage and cloud resources beyond what can be obtained via the Rapid Access Service (RAS).

Information security assists researchers in designing and implementing secure computer networks for their labs/offices where insecure endpoints are used.

In this learning module, we will provide developers with a suggested software setup and management plan aimed at small teams creating medium-sized projects.

Navigate 90+ event recordings, online modules, and webinars.

A sample project that shows developers how they can add Single Sign-On (SSO) to their Next.js single-page application to allow users to sign using their MacID credentials.

Get help integrating your applications with single sign-on, making it simple to manage permissions and secure access.

A sample project that shows developers how they can add Single Sign-On (SSO) to their PHP web application to allow users to sign using their MacID credentials.

Explore Spark's array of services

Manage website security certificates, including issuing certificates for self-managed websites and handling renewals.

Develop search strategies and methodologies for studies that include bibliometric analysis.

Assists researchers with effectively articulating their computational needs in grant applications and advising on requirements in consultations that RHPCS coordinates with Compute Ontario and Digital Research Alliance Canada (DRAC)/SHARCNET.

Help researchers assess and express their past research impact through bibliometric indicators and visualizations.

Provide recommendations for project management and collaborative development.

The Turing Way Handbook aims to provide all the information that researchers, data scientists, software engineers, policymakers, and other practitioners in academia, industry, government and the public sector need to ensure that the projects they work on are easy to reproduce and reuse.

Learn more about Compute Ontario's Training & Events.

Work with Research Security (Office of the Vice-President, Research) to advise and support travel to areas of concern.

Access the Guidance. Requires signing in with a MacID, as the information is only accessible to the McMaster Community.

Information Security provides guidance and opinion on the security posture of third-party vendors.

Virtual Private Network (VPN) software allows you to connect to the campus network from an off-campus computer and access devices, software, and networks that are normally not available from off campus.

Identify at-risk infrastructure that could lead to undue risk of compromise or exposure.