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The Workshop in Methods (WIM) provides introductory education and training in sophisticated research methods to graduate students and faculty in the social sciences at Indiana University. WIM's goal is to supplement methods courses with topical workshops led by leading methodological scholars from IU and across the United States. The Social Science Research Commons (SSRC) and other campus partners also provide additional workshops and trainings in research methods and tools. Workshops are offered in person on the Bloomington campus, often with a hybrid option, online only, and occasionally in other locations upon request.

Complex data structures, repeated measures, non-normal outcomes, and hierarchical designs often require advanced statistical approaches. Researchers may be unsure which model is appropriate or how to implement it correctly. We provide guidance to ensure analyses are valid, interpretable, and suitable for publication.

ISCC provides expert consultation on advanced statistical methods, including mixed models, longitudinal analysis, ANOVA/ANCOVA, and models for non-normal data. We work with researchers whose data do not fit standard textbook approaches and help them select and implement appropriate methods. Our goal is to support rigorous, publication-quality results.

What to know about using third-party large language models (LLMs such as IU-Managed ChatGPT.edu) with research data at IU.

This resource provides access guidance and technical support for Indiana University researchers using the All of Us Research Program dataset. The All of Us Research Program dataset has a complex data structure and scattered information. We help researchers avoid common on-boarding and workflow challenges by helping them understand the data structure, access requirements, and appropriate analytical use.

The IU Center for Evaluation, Policy, & Research (CEPR) conducts original research with funding from internal partners and external contracts and grants from state and federal agencies and private foundations. They often partner with other faculty (both IU and non-IU faculty), University Centers (both IU and other institutions of higher education), and state, national, and international organizations to conduct transformative research. Services related to research include collaborative relationships where CEPR works in partnership to conduct research, providing services such as data collection and/or analyses (e.g., conducting focus groups, conducting interviews, analyzing quantitative or qualitative data) and using diverse methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods).

Researchers can benefit greatly from a CEPR partnership. Whether it means enhancing your research team’s capacity through CEPR’s methodological expertise or engaging a thought partner to design and conduct transformative and rigorous studies, CEPR’s experienced researchers will customize applied research services to meet clients’ needs.

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Globus is a secure, reliable research data management platform that enables fast data transfer, sharing, unified access, and automation across diverse storage and compute systems. The Scholarly Data Archive (SDA) is a high‑capacity, long‑term archival storage service designed to securely preserve research data that require retention for years or decades but are not in active use.

Mentor an undergraduate student in research as part of CEW&T's Emerging Scholars Research Experience. Faculty participation is crucial in inspiring and guiding the next generation in research and technology.

The Bioethics and Subject Advocacy Program (BSAP) of the Indiana CTSI offers free consultations to researchers, administration, and leadership to help clarify and address ethical issues that arise in planning, carrying out, and analyzing translational research, including such topics as informed consent, return of results, biobanking, health information, research with minors, community engagement, and data safety and monitoring. The consultations are provided free of charge, get high ratings for quality and timeliness, and are confidential.

In addition to consultations, BSAP supports translational research by: a. Providing courses and training in Responsible Conduct of Research for students and trainees b. Hosting regular talks on Translational Research Ethics – Applied Topics (TREATs) talks, and making recordings available with additional information on our website c. Collaborating over extended periods with high-risk, high-reward research programs in areas such as precision health. d. Conducting research on research ethics itself, identifying and disseminating best practices.

Many professionals struggle to locate trustworthy, easy‑to‑cite community data when preparing grants or publications. We provide reliable, neighborhood‑level data that helps researchers, grantwriters, and practitioners ground their work in local context. Our tools and guidance make it easy to find, interpret, and cite community‑based indicators that support compelling grant applications, reports, and academic publications.

This resource offers accessible, well‑documented, Indiana‑specific data that strengthens evidence‑based narratives and supports clear, credible justification for funding and research.

The IU Research Data Commons data catalog is a growing list of data sets that have been licensed through IU and are available to the research community. It provides information about the data available, provides instructions on how to access the data, and prevents researchers from paying duplicate fees for datasets that have already been licensed by IU and are available for reuse.

Many people and organizations have access to data but lack the skills, tools, or confidence needed to interpret it accurately and use it effectively.

We offer practical training to help students, researchers, and practitioners strengthen their data literacy and analytic methods. Through workshops and hands‑on support, we teach participants how to interpret community‑level data, choose appropriate methods, and communicate insights clearly.

Our training equips learners with foundational data literacy and applied methods that support better research, planning, grantwriting, and decision‑making.

Federal agencies are increasingly requiring data management plans (DMPs) as a part of funded proposals. The IU Research Data Commons (RDC) offers free (up to) one-hour consultations to IU faculty to draft or refine DMPs. We can help faculty adhere to best practices and make use of the many resources available at Indiana University. RDC staff can assist at any stage, from developing an initial draft to providing detailed feedback on a completed plan.

This service helps researchers develop their DMP so they can focus on other aspects of their proposal.

The vast majority of scholarship now relies on proven digital tools, from word processors to scholarly communication and publishing over the web. There are, however, a wide variety of more specialized and sophisticated tools and approaches, such as quantitative text analysis, network analysis, and GIS that can enable you to ask new questions and find new perspective on familiar sources and data.

We serve researchers who want to create data visualizations, analyze their sources through particular tools such as mapping or networks, or increase the profile of their research through project and personal websites by providing comprehensive and tailored advice, guidance, and training. Our consultation services match your research questions and sources to the best such approaches on how to diversify your research output by making the most of new technologies.

If you have thought about using digital tools (such as creating a map or publishing a website) but aren't sure where to begin, we are happy to help you plan this research trajectory.

A Data Management and Sharing Plan is often required as part of funding applications. Learn what a data management and sharing plan is, what data management & sharing requirements funders commonly ask for, and what resources and services you can utilize to write one.

Our team can help you answer:

• What are your funder requirements are for data management and sharing?
• How do you write a data management plan to address funder requirements and support research integrity?

Researchers often struggle to access or apply high‑quality geospatial data that reveals the geographic patterns behind social, health, or economic conditions. We provide geospatial community data that helps researchers map local conditions, visualize disparities, and understand how place shapes outcomes. Our tools and expertise make it easy to integrate neighborhood‑level data into your research, strengthening analyses, publications, and decision‑making.

This resource offers accessible, well‑structured spatial data and support, enabling researchers to conduct more precise, place‑aware analyses that lead to stronger conclusions and more impactful work.

The IU Center for Evaluation, Policy, and Research (CEPR) supports IU faculty submitting proposals for external funding through the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research’s Research & Evaluation Design Support (REDS) program.

Federal agencies, foundations, and other funders continue to ask for more detail in proposed evaluation plans. CEPR’s research scientists are available to strengthen external proposals’ evaluation strategies and improve overall competitiveness.

CEPR's team of evaluation experts can provide you with a thorough and thoughtful evaluation plan and/or research services—tailored to your project and the funder’s requirements. They have extensive experience partnering on successful proposals funded by federal agencies such as the NSF, NIH, DoD, Department of Education, and private funders such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Arnold Ventures. REDS is available to IU academic faculty at no cost.

IU Center for Evaluation, Policy, & Research (CEPR) is a trusted evaluation partner and produces time-tested results. CEPR’s methodological expertise spans quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches. Evaluations are strategically designed to drive continuous improvement, measure success, and champion equitable practices. Offering a comprehensive suite of formative and summative evaluation methodologies, CEPR helps clients—including IU faculty—examine the impacts and effectiveness of policies, programs, and/or practices, explore how programs are being implemented on the ground, understand the connections between program design and intended outcomes, build internal evaluation capacities and capabilities, and more. CEPR works with external organizations and internal groups alike and can be written into a grant as an external evaluator, even for most grants submitted by IU faculty.

Externally-funded programs/projects often require awardees to evaluate stated goals and overall program impact to demonstrate accountability and verify success. Working with an external evaluator like CEPR can help ensure an evaluation is conducted with rigor, meets funders’ standards and requirements, and produces robust data that inform future decision-making.

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Local governments, organizations, and residents face urgent environmental challenges with limited resources and capacity. To help Hoosier communities create the thriving future they deserve, Environmental Resilience Institute is partnering to deliver the science-informed, community-driven, and equity-centered solutions needed to flourish in a changing climate.

With Indiana networks in local government, business, K-12 education, and the nonprofit sector, the ERI can help researchers broaden the impact of their research and augment teaching and learning efforts. Examples of successful collaborations with IU faculty include projects focused on community extreme heat planning, decision tools for heat pumps, and an NSF CAREER proposal featuring ERI’s urban forestry cohort.

The Data Storage Finder will help you explore research data storage options at IU. The interactive web tool highlights capabilities of IU storage offerings.

The GradGrants Center at Indiana University Bloomington addresses key challenges graduate students face in securing funding, including difficulty identifying relevant opportunities and crafting competitive grant proposals.

Our primary services include one-on-one consulting for grant proposal writing, assistance in identifying internal and external funding opportunities (such as fellowships, awards, and sponsored grants), workshops, database access, and guidance to advance research, dissertation work, conference participation, and graduate study.

By providing free, personalized one-on-one consultations, workshops, and access to comprehensive funding resources, GradGrants reduces information overload, builds proposal-writing skills, alleviates financial pressures, and supports timely progress toward research, dissertation, and career goals.

The volume of publicly available data can be overwhelming, and not every dataset is suitable for a given research purpose. Locating the right dataset for secondary use requires more than a simple search. Research data librarians can guide you through discipline-specific repositories, help you assess data quality and fitness for purpose, and ensure the datasets you select are appropriate for your research questions and methodology.

This service helps researchers and students navigate that landscape — evaluating datasets for relevance, reliability, documentation quality, and alignment with their specific research questions — saving time and improving research outcomes.

The Proposal Development Services team partners with IU faculty to strengthen grant applications through strategic guidance, narrative development, and comprehensive review. We provide early-stage consultation, proposal structuring, competitive positioning, and detailed feedback on drafts to improve clarity, responsiveness to sponsor priorities, and overall impact. Our goal is to help faculty submit compelling, competitive proposals aligned with sponsor expectations.

Key challenges addressed include: Difficulty translating innovative research ideas into compelling, fundable narratives; Uncertainty about sponsor priorities, review criteria, and competitive positioning; Limited time for faculty to critically revise and strengthen proposal drafts; Need for objective, expert feedback before submission.

With hundreds of repositories to choose from, preparing data for sharing requires significant investment — so it's worth taking the time to find the right repository for your project. This service helps researchers cut through the complexity to ensure their data are as findable — and therefore as usable and citable — as possible. Explore the options available to you and learn how to select a repository that best meets your needs.

CEW&T's Emerging Scholars Research Experience program pairs first- and second-year students at IU Bloomington with faculty mentors who conduct research that actively engages students with computing and/or technology. This opportunity allows you to develop valuable research skills, earn credits, and bolster your resume in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Communities often lack accessible, consistent, and trustworthy local data needed to understand conditions, target interventions, and justify funding or policy decisions. SAVI solves this by offering a centralized, user‑friendly source of high‑quality community data that removes barriers to analysis and strengthens evidence‑based action.

SAVI provides free, comprehensive neighborhood‑level data on health, housing, education, demographics, and social conditions across Indiana. The platform helps researchers, nonprofits, and community leaders easily explore trends, compare geographies, and build data‑driven strategies

Many organizations struggle to interpret complex community data or lack the analytic capacity to turn local information into actionable decisions. Our place‑based analytics and decision‑support tools help organizations understand neighborhood conditions, compare communities, and make data‑informed choices with confidence. We provide customized analyses, mapping, and insight‑building support to help partners translate complex local data into meaningful action.

This resource offers expert support, user‑friendly tools, and place‑based analyses that transform raw data into clear insights for planning, funding, policy, and program work.

The Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Fellowship Program aims to provide faculty and students with consulting and guidance needed to sharpen their skills, knowledge, and experience needed to integrate advanced cyberinfrastructure into classrooms, or to become successful researchers.

The Seed Grant program supports new, innovative research or creative activity projects that are sustainable through external funding. Budgets may include support for data gathering and analysis.

Leverage the GIS resources and platforms at IU designed to help you visualize and analyze spatial data, as well as share and communicate your data and research.

UITS services provide licensing, software access, and technical support for GIS users at IU. IU Libraries offer GIS consultation and services related to maps and spatial data.

The Indiana University Health Economics Consortium (IU-HEC) is a university-wide initiative that connects researchers with expertise in health economics, policy evaluation, and economic modeling. Many health and clinical studies do not incorporate economic evaluation, making it difficult for policymakers and health systems to assess the value and affordability of interventions. IU-HEC addresses this gap by connecting investigators with health economics expertise to strengthen grant proposals and interdisciplinary research.

IU-HEC fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and supports grant development, research design, and economic evaluation of health policies and healthcare interventions. Through its consultation services, the consortium helps investigators integrate cost, value, and policy analysis into impactful health and clinical research.

By integrating economic evaluation into health research, the consortium helps generate evidence needed to guide efficient and equitable healthcare policy and investment.

Empower your students to read, interpret, and communicate data with confidence.

Students enter IU Indianapolis with different levels of comfort and experience working with data. We help faculty bridge those gaps by offering tools, activities, and course‑ready support that make data literacy accessible to all students—regardless of discipline. We provide guidance on scaffolding skills, consults or collaborations, and creating resources and activities for students.

Need someone to provide statistical analysis plans for grant proposals or implement data analysis on grants and research papers?

The Biostatistics Consulting Center is a cost-recovery center providing professional statisticians and data managers for health-related research projects, including NIH grants.

The Indiana University Research Data Commons hosts a local copy of selected Human Connectome Project datasets to support efficient access and analysis by IU researchers. Although HCP data are publicly available, the datasets are extremely large and computationally intensive to work with. Hosting the data on IU managed research infrastructure enables researchers to conduct large scale analyses without the need for repeated external data transfers and supports high performance computing workflows. The dataset is organized by individual study participants using the standard HCP directory structure. Subject level directories contain raw imaging data, anatomical structural data, and preprocessed derivatives generated using HCP pipelines, including data normalized to standard MNI space. These data support analyses ranging from image processing and methodological development to group level and population-based neuroimaging studies. The Human Connectome Project is a large scale, NIH funded research initiative designed to map the structural and functional connectivity of the human brain using advanced neuroimaging and behavioral measures. The project has generated high resolution magnetic resonance imaging datasets, along with associated metadata and derived products, to support research on brain structure, function, and connectivity.

Staying in compliance with federal funding agency’s requirements for data management and sharing means more than just submitting a data management and sharing plan. Research Data Services at IU Libraries can help you answer:

• How will your research team implement that plan?
• How will you train members of the research team in following the plan?
• How do I implement the DMSP in the day-to-day operations of a research team or lab?

IT Training consultation services provide one‑on‑one or small‑group guidance to help individuals, teams, and academic units identify the right technologies, learning resources, and training approaches for their goals. Consultants work with clients to assess needs, recommend tools or training pathways, and support effective, responsible use of current and emerging IU‑supported technologies.

This service addresses the challenge of knowing which tools, training, or approaches are most appropriate in a complex and rapidly changing technology environment.

The IT Training EdCert program is a specialized part of IT Training that offers technical courses aligned with industry‑recognized IT certifications. These courses are designed to support learners who want structured, certification‑focused learning beyond general skill development. EdCert courses are available at no cost to the IU community and at a discounted rate to the broader higher education community, helping learners prepare for professional credentials.

The EdCert program addresses the need for affordable, accessible pathways to industry‑recognized IT certifications for the IU and the greater higher education community. 

IU Human Subjects Office staff can provide guidance on what the appropriate level of review for a planned research study will be, as well as guidance on what information and materials need to be included in the submission.

Eliminate the need for paper notebooks, reduce data silos, and enable digital collaboration. LabArchives a secure, cloud-based electronic lab notebook (ELN) built for researchers to use in the conduct of research. Record, organize, and search your data effortlessly. Streamline workflows and reduce paperwork, so you can spend less time searching for data and more time on actual discovery and publication.

The Merative™ MarketScan® Research database provides deidentified, longitudinal, patient-level claims and is one of the largest and longest-running medical claims databases available. Indiana University has access to these data through December 2028 (and intending to extend the contract assuming high use of this resource at IU), for data years 2016 through the most recent year available (2023), with annual updates guaranteed through data year 2026 (to be delivered in December 2027). Our data set currently includes over sixty million patients.

• Available to IU faculty, IU research staff, and IU PhD students (working on existing faculty projects). All analysis of the MarketScan data must be performed on UITS Research Technologies High Performance Computing Systems. MarketScan is available to use without fee for existing research projects, and for internally funded research projects. Use of MarketScan in grant-funded research requires a fee to be written into the proposal budget before the grant is submitted.

Development of statistical analysis plans for grant submissions. Biostatistical advice for conducting appropriate statistical analyses for your study. Connection to expert biostatisticians to perform statistical analyses for your study.

Consultations ensure consistency among study aims, research hypotheses, study methods, statistical analysis plan and sample size justification for grant submissions. For researchers doing their own statistical analyses: suggest appropriate analyses to use, statistical programming advice (SAS, R, SPSS), suggested links to online calculators, help with responses to manuscript reviewers. Provide connection to an expert biostatistician to perform statistical analyses for your study (fee-for-service).

The NIH Writing Cohort is a faculty-focused program designed to guide researchers through the intensive process of preparing and submitting high-quality proposals to the National Institutes of Health. Participants benefit from a series of structured sessions that include expert-led workshops on grant mechanics, internal peer review of drafts, and strategic advice from successfully funded investigators. By fostering a collaborative "cohort" environment, the program provides both the accountability and the technical resources necessary to transform complex research ideas into competitive NIH applications.

Key challenges addressed and benefits of participation include: Provides a structured schedule and accountability milestones to ensure faculty stay on track for submission deadlines; simplifies the daunting technical requirements and "unwritten rules" of NIH components, such as the Specific Aims page and Biosketches; increases the competitiveness of proposals by integrating proven strategies from experienced grant winners and professional proposal development consultants.

This program brings diverse faculty together from across IU to learn the mechanics of a compelling NSF CAREER application. Faculty cohort members will hear from successful CAREER scholars about what worked in their applications, and will have the opportunity to receive peer and Proposal Development Services feedback on all components of a CAREER application.

We aim to alleviate some of the administrative burden of grant writing by teaching faculty the components and technical aspects of a successful NSF CAREER grant application.

Grant proposals and research studies often require formal justification of sample size and statistical approach. Without appropriate design and power analysis, studies risk being underpowered, inefficient, or methodologically flawed. We help researchers design studies that are rigorous, fundable, and aligned with best statistical practices.

ISCC provides consultation on study design, sample size justification, and statistical planning for grants and research proposals. We assist researchers in developing methodologically sound designs that meet sponsor expectations and support valid, reproducible findings. Our guidance helps ensure projects are statistically defensible from the outset.

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CEW&T provides countless networking opportunities through its events, but it also has a designated Mentor Collective program, which matches student mentees with career mentors to virtually connect, share, and discuss career development, networking, confidence building, and more.

The Indiana University Center for Survey Research partners with faculty, staff, and students across disciplines—including business, education, the social sciences, and the health sciences—to support high-quality, cost-effective research. We provide advanced IT expertise in programming and testing survey instruments using tools like REDCap and Qualtrics, with careful attention to issues associated with bots, use of AI technology, and incentives administration. Our experienced technologists also develop and manage databases and secure web interfaces. We support projects ranging from small, focused surveys to large, complex research designs.

The Center for Survey Research provides specialized IT expertise to efficiently produce high-quality programmed instruments, sample management systems, databases, and interfaces for research involving surveys in all modes of data collection, interviews, and much more.

Pre-Award Specialists help build your budget based on some basic information provided by Principal Investigators (PI). We will discuss what those items are, give you a tool to provide us the information we need, and help you locate the most current ORA templates. Budgets often drive the scope of your project, so it is important to complete them early. Budgets are reviewed by others in the routing process.

The Proposal Development Services team collaborates with IU faculty to provide individualized levels of project management support to help with a range of tasks. We create detailed timelines planning each stage before submission, help conduct communications to ensure all team members remain effectively informed, track document status development, and work to help in other ways that best fit the specific project.

Key challenges addressed include: Difficulty in planning timelines that align with the advanced notice needed for internally routing grants through IU’s systems; limited time to track communications across all team partners; need for document tracking to ensure project moves forward with deterministic plan; challenges with file versioning, editing, and sharing.

The Indiana Federal Statistical Research Data Center is part of The Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDC) program, a partnership between the Federal statistical system and research institutions. The FSRDC program provides secure environments supporting qualified researchers using restricted-access data while protecting respondent confidentiality. These restricted-access data come from censuses and surveys of businesses and households, linked employer-employee data, and administrative records from federal and state agencies and other sources. 

Applications to use restricted-access data through FSRDCs are carefully reviewed by participating agencies. For researchers interested in data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, applications should be developed in close consultation with the Census administrator. This support will strengthen your proposal and help you obtain approval.

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Data catalog filtered to FSRDC Census data, and application portal FSRDC program home page

The IU Research Data Commons Resource Guides provide expert guidance on specific topics or for specific audiences, providing readers with an overview of the topic and directing users to more information and resources to provide clarity on processes and options. Guides provide targeted advice to help researchers navigate new and emerging topics and processes.

Examples include: AI & Research Data, Data Management and Sharing Plans for Federally Funded Proposals, Pathways for Sharing Research Data, and Storing Research Data in IU Institutional Storage 

The IU Research Data Commons regularly hosts workshops and webinars on research data resources and related topics at IU. Sessions highlight IU resources and services that researchers may not be aware of and provide information about policies and compliance led by experts on each topic. All webinars are recorded and available to watch on the RDC website at a later date.

Need help collecting and managing data for surveys and research studies including clinical trials?

Biostatistics Consulting Center is a cost-recovery center that can create or manage a REDCap database for data collection and management for research projects including randomized trials or cohort studies.

The Request a Session service offers custom, instructor‑led training for IU classes, departments, and groups, tailored to specific technology skill needs. Sessions can be delivered in person or online and cover topics such as IU services, Microsoft and Adobe tools, digital security, and emerging technologies like generative AI.

This service helps teams and learners gain practical, relevant IT skills in a format that fits their schedule and goals.

The Research & Evaluation Design Support (REDS) for Grant Proposals program provides specialized consultation related to research design, evaluation plans, survey methodology, and statistics. It leverages the expertise of the Institute for Social & Behavioral Research (ISBR) centers and programs, including the Center for Evaluation, Policy, and Research (CEPR), Center for Survey Research (CSR), and Indiana Statistical Consulting Center (ISCC).

Federal agencies, foundations, and other funders expect high-quality research designs, methodological expertise, and detailed evaluation plans. REDS provides the expertise needed to strengthen proposals and increase their competitiveness.

Put the power of IU’s supercomputers and computing clusters to work, enabling fast calculations, advanced simulations, and massive secure storage.

IU offers a wealth of resources but it's not always easy to know what is available or where to find it. The IU Research Data Commons Resource Catalog aggregates over 260 data-related resources at IU and helps to increase discoverability for researchers. It directs users to the host unit where they can learn more about a resource and how to use it. It is updated regularly to ensure accuracy and account for changes and additions.

IU has a wealth of resources and the FAQ section of the RDC website helps users find the research data related resources and expertise they need to do their work. The RDC FAQs contain 80+ commonly asked questions by researchers and direct users to the experts' sources.

Managing a secure and reliable relational database management system (RDBMS) can be both challenging and expensive. The Research Database Complex (RDC) at Indiana University (IU) supports data-intensive research requiring MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. RDC provides database as a service (DBaaS), allowing researchers to utilize this fundamental technology without having to bear the associated costs and risks.

The Scholarly Data Share (SDS) service helps researchers store and share very large datasets with tailored metadata schemas both within or outside of IU. Research Data Services also provides Research Data Management Consulting to help IU researchers optimize their use of available data storage options, plan and track metadata, and develop data management workflows.

For researchers who need help planning their data workflows, determining what metadata they need to track, and storing or sharing their data at different stages of their research, RDS is here to help!

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The Indiana University Center for Survey Research partners with faculty, staff, and students across disciplines—including business, education, the social sciences, and the health sciences—to support high-quality, cost-effective research. We provide advanced methodological and operational expertise in questionnaire development and review, sampling and recruitment, data collection strategies (including bot mitigation, AI-related considerations, and incentive administration), and data cleaning. Our team supports projects ranging from small, focused surveys to large, complex research designs.

Provides methodological and operational expertise to strengthen the rigor and cost-effectiveness of research designs involving surveys in all modes of data collection, standardized interviews, and much more.

Good data management and documentation practices are vital to the integrity of the scholarly record and public trust in research. Publications and the underlying research data are necessary but not sufficient for reproducibility and integrity.

IU Librarians have expertise and experience in ensuring long-term access to the scholarly record and can support researchers in developing and implementing good documentation practices for research projects and the data generated and used in them.

Provide pilot funding for projects to be developed into larger extramural applications.

Provide research technologies through CTSI designated core facilities on each partner CTSI campus.

The Social Science Research Commons, in partnership with UITS, provides access to the Restricted Access Data Remote Server (RADaRS). RADaRS is for researchers who wish to obtain, store, analyze and conduct research with data sets that must be used only within a highly-secure environment. The server allows researchers to store, access, and analyze datasets within a Windows environment, and to work independently or collaboratively. A data custodian manages all ingress and egress from the server. We can also work with researchers and data providers to complete data management or security plans.

RADaRS is designed to meet the strict security requirements that researchers must meet when using restricted data from external data providers.

Answering some important research question requires access to data that cannot be made publicly available due to confidentiality concerns. This includes more detailed geographical information, more detailed demographic information, data on sensitive topics, and datasets with identifiers that allow for merging and linking. With an approved project, researchers can access these data through the Indiana Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC).

The Indiana FSRDC is part of The Federal Statistical Research Data Centers program, a partnership between the Federal statistical system and research institutions. The FSRDC program provides secure environments supporting qualified researchers using restricted-access data while protecting respondent confidentiality.

These restricted-access data come from censuses and surveys of businesses and households, linked employer-employee data, and administrative records from federal and state agencies and other sources. Participating partner agencies include the National Center for Health Statistics, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Internal Revenue Service Statistics of Income Division, and more. The FSRDC network equips researchers with the resources they need to generate insights for the public good.

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Data catalog and application portal FSRDC program home page Partner and participating agencies with links to information about additional available data, e.g. from AHRQ, NCHS, and others that may not be listed in ResearchDataGov

SecureMyResearch offers one-on-one consulting to help researchers navigate cybersecurity and compliance requirements associated with grants, contracts, and data use agreements.

Our team works with you to identify risks, implement appropriate safeguards, and ensure your research environment meets applicable security standards and policy. Whether you are working with regulated or unregulated data, we provide practical guidance and secure workflows tailored to your research needs.

SecureMyResearch addresses:

• Difficulty navigating cybersecurity requirements in grants, contracts, and data use agreements
• Uncertainty about how to protect sensitive or regulated research data
• Challenges implementing appropriate security controls in research environments
• Barriers to securely sharing data with internal and external collaborators
• Confusion around sponsor and institutional cybersecurity expectations
• Administrative burden associated with research cybersecurity compliance.

CEW&T's Accelerator Crash Courses are immersive, hands-on workshops designed to help you dive deep into tech topics and leave with real-world experience—all in a single day. Another CEW&T offering, the Emerging Technologies Series, allows you the oppourntiy to explore what’s next—and start building the skills to shape it.

BCC offers a free Open Lab each week for grad students, post-docs, and faculty for any questions about stats or coding for your research project related to health or life-sciences. Paid services are available beyond the free Open Lab.

Researchers often encounter coding errors, inefficient workflows, or uncertainty about how to implement statistical methods correctly. These issues can delay projects and affect reproducibility. The Indiana Statistical Consulting Center (ISCC) provides expert troubleshooting and guidance to ensure analyses are accurate, efficient, and properly documented.

The ISCC provides hands-on support for statistical programming in R, Stata, SPSS, SAS and Python. We help researchers debug code, improve efficiency, structure reproducible workflows, and implement appropriate statistical methods. Whether you are cleaning data, running models, or preparing analyses for publication, we can help you move forward with confidence.

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ISCC Consultation Prep Checklist R Stata Python SPSS SAS

The Institute for Social and Behavioral Research's Qual Hub connects researchers with methodological expertise to design and conduct high-quality qualitative and mixed methods research. The Social Science Research commons provides workshops, trainings, and consultations on qualitative research methods and tools, access to equipment for collecting qualitative data, secure automated transcription services, and qualitative data analysis software and support.

The Center for Survey Research provides advanced methodological and operational expertise in interview and research protocol development, sampling and recruitment, data collection methods, data preparation, coding, and analysis for qualitative research studies. The CSR team supports projects ranging from small, focused interview projects to complex research designs utilizing multiple qualitative methods. The Qual Hub also connects researchers to other university resources that support qualitative research.

This system integrates 6 data sources (genomic data, cancer registry data, medical record data and biospecimen data) to facilitate future cancer research. Within the platform, you can quickly search and analyze your patients of interest within a secure system.

Cancer research data is often challenging to integrate and aggregate. This system reduces some of the common bottlenecks found in this type of research.

IU researchers have access to secure automated transcription services that are approved for use with research data. The Social Science Research Commons' Automated Transcription Service provides automated transcripts generated through contracts with commercial cloud providers, operated in partnership with UITS and designed specifically for critical research data. CarbonCopy is a self-service transcription tool using OpenAI's Whisper models and is hosted on premises at IU.

These services provide researchers with access to tools that are secure and approved for use with research data, including critical data, human subjects data, and PHI, at no cost and with limited technical expertise needed.

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CarbonCopy at IU Transcription services approved for use with institutional data at IU Generate transcripts for study participant interviews - SecureMyResearch Cookbook Recipe

The IU Research Data Commons provides access guidance for using the Truveta EHR dataset. It helps researchers understand the complex data structure, governance requirements, and appropriate analytical use of the data. The service addresses barriers to accessing and effectively using the Truveta EHR dataset by helping on-board researchers and addressing common workflow questions.

Individually, each Data Steward has management and policy-making responsibilities for their specific data subject areas. Data classification is a way of identifying and categorizing the risks associated with certain types of data. Together, researchers and Data Stewards work together to protect and share data responsibly.

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a set of healthcare databases produced by a Federal-State-Industry partnership that together provide the largest collection of rich, longitudinal hospital care data in the United States. These databases include information on inpatient hospital stays, emergency department visits, ambulatory surgeries, and hospital readmissions, and can support research on health policy issues, medical practices, access to healthcare, and treatment outcomes.

At IU, researchers can complete required trainings and agreements and then access HCUP datasets for research at no cost.

Researchers need a trusted, reliable repository to publish and share their work — one that will keep their data accessible, well-documented, and discoverable over time. Through DataWorks (Indianapolis) and DataCORE (Bloomington; Regional campuses), Indiana University provides exactly that infrastructure at no cost to the IU-affiliated researcher.

Both platforms provide essential services including DOI generation, curatorial review, and long-term preservation to ensure data remain accessible well into the future. Free to use, these repositories also help researchers meet funder and journal data sharing requirements.

DataWorks and DataCORE repositories offer professional curation, meaning that data are reviewed for completeness, clarity, and usability before publication — not just stored, but made genuinely useful to other researchers. This level of institutional support also helps researchers stay ahead of data sharing mandates from funders as well as requirements from academic journals, without placing additional burden on individual research teams.

Additional Links:

[DataCORE, Bloomington; Regional campuses] (https://datacore.iu.edu/) IU Indianapolis DataWorks

Biostatistics Consulting Center provides a weekly free Open Lab for R coding advice as well as paid cost-recovery service to coach or implement R coding on research projects in health or life-sciences.

It can be difficult to understand how to log in and access the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) member benefits. We want to ensure that participants know how to access this repository, learn how to navigate and use various search functions, browse through the thematic collections, and understand how to access data from this site.

ICPSR is home to the world's largest archive of social science research data. Through ICPSR, researchers can find data for analysis, and archive their own data for sharing and re-use. ICPSR also provides leadership and training in data curation and social science research methods, especially through their Summer Program in Quantitative Methods. As members of the Consortium, IU Bloomington and IU Indianapolis researchers have access to:

• Unlimited data downloads
• Data depositing, and
• Discounted tuition and scholarships for ICPSR's Summer Program.

Learn more about ICPSR and how to access these resources using your IU credentials.

Additional Links:

ICPSR Home

The Research Equipment Fund (REF) provides support for purchasing new research or creative activity equipment, for repairing or upgrading existing equipment, and for datasets that are strategically necessary to support high-quality research, attract and retain research faculty, and generate external funding. Matching funds are required.

The Roper Center collects, preserves, and disseminates public opinion data. IU Bloomington's membership gives researchers access to nearly 25,000 datasets and almost a million questions, and includes data from more than 150 different countries and United States data from 1935 through the present. Data can be reviewed online and downloaded for further analysis.

The IU Research Data Commons provides access, guidance, and technical support for Indiana University researchers who want to use the Web of Science Core Collection XML dataset. Our support addresses barriers to accessing and effectively using large scale citation data, including complex XML structure.