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Reliable and secure data center facilities are available for IT hardware colocation use by college and departmental IT units and researchers. Equipment owners provide their own technical support. Accommodations are made for both remote and physical access to equipment.
Need a customized hardware, software, storage and backup, or online solution for your research project? Speak with one of our IT professionals to set you on the right path toward maximizing your resources and utilizing the IT infrastructure that the University offers. We can help you develop a plan for your proposal, estimate costs for budgets, plan for data access and security concerns, and connect you with the resources you need to complete your research.
Our professionals provide expert guidance, project consultation, and technical assistance on various aspects of data curation, especially creating and disseminating open data, code, and other research products. You can consult us about data governance issues, documentation and metadata, data sharing and publishing, long-term archiving, and related topics. In some cases, we can perform pre-dissemination cleaning, transformation, and integration. In addition, we can help with data management or data sharing plans for funding agencies and journals.
Statistical consulting is free to all members of the UMD research community (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff), in all departments and disciplines. Research is increasingly data-driven, and we are available to answer your statistics and analysis questions through email or an in-person consultation. We currently specialize in SAS, SPSS, R, and can also provide support on Survey Design and Analysis.
Need to include infrastructure information about UMD storage architecture in your research proposal? Find out more about the resources available to University researchers.
Subject Specialist Librarians can help by providing one-on-one research assistance, purchasing materials (including data) in your discipline, answering questions about publishing and copyright issues, and identifying gaps in the literature when you're planning a research project, and navigating library resources. Visit the Meet Your Librarian page to find out more about your librarian and request an appointment.
Access University licensed and discounted software packages such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Matlab, Oracle, Visual Studio, SharePoint and more!
The Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM) collects, preserves, and provides public access to the scholarly output of the university. Faculty and researchers can upload documents, data, code, and other research products for rapid dissemination, global visibility and impact, and long-term preservation. You can track views and downloads of your research, and everything in DRUM is indexed by Google and Google Scholar. You receive a permanent DOI for your items, making it easy for other researchers to cite your work. Depositing research in DRUM can help you satisfy data management and sharing requirements from the NSF, NIH, and other funding agencies and journals.
The University Libraries' Digital Data Services program provides software development services to the broader communities and partners of the University of Maryland. Services include application development, application hosting and consultation on software engineering practices.
Planning for how you will share data with reviewers and other researchers is an important part of your data management plan. Learn more about important considerations for data sharing and public access.
A data management plan describes the data, code, and other research products you will produce and how you will format, document, store, share, and preserve them. Funding agencies and journals increasingly expect that you will, as much as possible, share data, code, and other products with other researchers. Many funding agencies and sponsors require a data management plan with each proposal, but any researcher or team will benefit from developing a data management plan. Developing a plan is an excellent way to identify useful and important records, optimize your data handling processes, and anticipate issues that may arise in publishing, archiving, and preservation. Log in to dmptool.org with your UMD credentials and start creating a data management plan using templates from both UMD and a variety of funders.
The University of Maryland Libraries' GIS and Spatial Data Center's mission is to support all GIS users affiliated with the College Park campus. You can work with us in the following ways: Consult with geospatial experts to learn more about adding GIS, remote sensing, and spatial statistics into your research. Partner with geospatial experts on grants, existing research, and classes. Research spatial relationships with expert support in our GIS lab featuring the latest GIS, image processing, statistics, data science, and data visualization software packages. Learn how to create, manipulate, analyze, interpret, and manage spatial data and how to find existing spatial data sources.