Research Data

The Office of Information Security Compliance team helps students, faculty, and staff understand their roles and responsibilities under Penn State and legal requirements.

When files are improperly or inadequately purged from storage media, it is often still possible to reconstruct or retrieve data. In order to mitigate the potentially significant risk of unauthorized disclosure of PSU information, storage media must be appropriately sanitized to prevent unauthorized access to, or disclosure of, sensitive institutional information. 

The Data Centers’ Colocation Center is a state-of-the-art facility where departments and units can relocate and securely house their business and research data. The service helps minimize the downtime related to power and environmental inefficiencies that often occur in smaller office locations. 

Penn State's Data Commons provides a resource for data sharing, discovery, and archiving for the Penn State research and teaching community.

There are many ways to transfer data to and from Roar and Roar Collab, with options suitable for large datasets, secure data, transfers between institutions, and more.

Databrary, a joint project of Penn State and NYU, is a web-based data library for developmental scientists to securely store, manage, share, discover, and reuse research data, including videos, audio files, procedures and stimuli, and related metadata.

​Globus is a non-profit service for secure, reliable research data management.

The Cloud Program provides access to cloud-based IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for easy and rapid acquisition, development, and scaling of resources. Cloud computing meets users’ needs in a secure manner without the requirement to purchase and maintain physical hardware.

The Cloud Program provides access to cloud-based IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for easy and rapid acquisition, development, and scaling of resources. Cloud computing meets users’ needs in a secure manner without the requirement to purchase and maintain physical hardware.

Open Access is a publishing model that makes works freely available, eliminating the cost associated with obtaining and using scholarly works. Open Access allows researchers to share their work with a broad audience free of restrictions.

ORCiD provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from one another. This means that it will be less likely that your name will be confused with another researcher with a similar name, ensuring that the you get the cretid that you deserve for your work. Unlike a Penn State Access ID, work email, or identification number, your ORCiD ID follows you when you move.

Located in the College of Health and Human Development’s Prevention Research Center, and supported by the Social Science Research Institute, The Penn State Administrative Data Accelerator

Penn State is home to one of over 30 Federal Statistical Research Data Centers located around the country. These centers provide researchers with secure access to restricted economic, demographic, and health data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA) is Pennsylvania's official public access open geospatial data portal. PASDA was developed in 1995 by the Pennsylvania State University and has served as the geospatial data portal for Pennsylvania for over twenty three years.

Qualtrics is a web-based software program that enables users to create surveys to collect and analyze feedback from participants. The surveys can be administered fully anonymously. Qualtrics surveys can be used as both a formative and summative assessment tool. It enables users to export raw data for robust statistic analysis to common file types (csv.

REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. Using REDCap's stream-lined process for rapidly developing projects, users may create and design projects using:

A "Data Use Agreement" (DUA) is an agreement from a Data Provider that requires a signature/e-signature, or must be acknowledges in some other way in order to recieve data from another party.

The Penn State Libraries hosts the Research Data Management (RDM) Team and offers data management consultations, workshops, information sesions, access to funding opportunities, and guidance on both tools and data repositories. The RDM team is also available to consult on the creation of data management plans (DMP).

The Penn State Libraries' Research Data Services team provides statistical consultation; from data collection to interpretation of results, RDS helps users utilize statistical software for data analysis.

The Department of Research Informatics and Publishing enhances the technology-driven teaching and research capacity of the Penn State community.

RMD is a collaboration between PSU libraries, OVPR, and West Arête; the organization's goal is to provide centralized, consistent access to up-to-date metadata for Penn State faculty research. RMD provides the following services:

ScholarSphere is Penn State’s institutional repository for research and scholarly work produced by the University community. Through ScholarSphere, Penn State researchers - faculty, students, and staff alike - are able to share their work on a worldwide scale and be assured of its long-term preservation and thus ongoing access.

The Office of Information Security's Security Consulting and Services team works strategically with university stakeholders by proactively participating in technology projects, procurements, and research initiatives throughout the University. This includes providing security consulting and guidance for projects and initiatives; risk as

The Cloud Program provides access to cloud-based IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for easy and rapid acquisition, development, and scaling of resources. Cloud computing meets users’ needs in a secure manner without the requirement to purchase and maintain physical hardware.

Penn State's VM Hosting service provides cost-effective, reliable Virtual Machines (VM) for departments, colleges, and research units at Penn State University.

The purchase of a physical server or purpose-driven computational appliance should be limited to cases of necessity, driven by specific needs that cannot be otherwise met.

The Cloud Program provides access to cloud-based IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for easy and rapid acquisition, development, and scaling of resources. Cloud computing meets users’ needs in a secure manner without the requirement to purchase and maintain physical hardware.

The Institute for Computational and Data Sciences provides several data storage options, including archival solutions, through the Roar and Roar Collab supercomputing clusters.

Penn State offers various products and services in support of survey planning, creation, and management as well as results analysis and reporting.