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This guide walks you through bibliometrics and altmetrics to help you define and measure the impact of your scholarly work on the research community and general public. This includes impact factors, journal rankings, citation counts, and how these numbers and more can be used to tell your impact story to APT committees and funders.
Webex is the university's Web conferencing and collaboration platform. Webex includes integrated voice through your computer and on-campus dial-in at x50600. Webex enables faculty, staff, and students to meet with internal and external colleagues over the Internet using multi-party conferencing and screen sharing. WebEx is designed to work on PCs, Macs, smartphones, and tablets. Webex provides three "centers": 1) Meeting Center - Video conferencing in your personal virtual meeting room or in a scheduled room. 2) Training Center - Lectures, labs and breakout sessions online and 3) Event Center - Large "broadcast" events and webinars Instructors or room "owners" control how others can communicate within the room; modes include: voice, video, presentations, and chat. Proceedings of a WebEx session can be recorded and shared with students within the ELMS course space via a link to the WebEx service.
Need access to high performance computing software? The Deepthought2 cluster has over 100 different software packages available to users, including biojava, espresso, dart, mathematica, modeltest, nwchem, tophat, and more!
Box is a cloud-based storage and collaboration system that provides a Web interface for uploading, downloading, sharing, and discussing files. Box is designed to work on Macs, PCs, smartphones, and tablets, so it gives you access to your files from just about anywhere. Click on the See Also link below to find out more about using your UMD Box account.
Maryland Student Researchers (MSR) connects undergraduate students with professors seeking assistance with research projects. The MSR program consists of a database that enables professors to post details about their research opportunities, and permits undergraduates to search effectively for opportunities that are a good fit for their interests and qualifications.
The University is committed to ensuring that graduate assistant assignments are productive, enhance student qualifications, meet funding support and workload goals, and are consistent with the educational objectives of the student and his or her program. The specific duties of Graduate Research Assistants (RAs) vary according to the nature of the research project in which they participate and the source of the funding.
The Department of Procurement and Strategic Sourcing can help you navigate the rules and regulations related to purchasing products or services from outside vendors.
ESSR offers a variety of online and classroom-style training sessions on matters related to lab and environmental safety. Also from this page, you can find a list of training requirements, information on developing lab specific training, training videos and pamphlets, and access to individual and departmental training records.
The University of Maryland's travel policies are intended to facilitate travel and travel arrangements; to provide reimbursement for necessary expenses; and to protect travelers against the risk of loss while simultaneously maintaining the necessary controls for accountability. All travel is to be documented. Pre-approval is required for University of Maryland employee and sponsored visitor out-of-state and international travel. Pre-approval is required for University of Maryland travel which includes an overnight stay, regardless of whether the destination is in-state.
Review the appropriate University and Sponsor policies before making arrangements to travel internationally. Find resources on what questions to ask, what airlines to use to comply with the Fly America Act and Open Skies Agreements, and checking with the Export Compliance Office before conducting international travel.
A conflict of interest occurs when a member of the University community is in a position to gain personal benefit or financial advantage from their University position, either through outside professional activities or through their actions or decisions at the University.
The Sponsored Research Handbook contains most of the policies and procedures that relate to sponsored research, service, and training at the University of Maryland, College Park. It covers the development of proposals, review of proposals, submission of proposals soliciting external support, and the establishment and administration of sponsored project accounts.
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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.
Cost sharing or matching refers to that portion of a project or program costs not paid by the sponsor and/or is explicitly required by the program or solicitation, without which an application would be ineligible. These costs represent an implied or explicit agreement on the part of the University to assure that non-sponsor resources are contributed to a project, either from sources within or external to the University.
The Department of Environmental Safety, Sustainability and Risk (ESSR) ensures the safety of research at the University by aiding researchers in assessing and planning for hazards and risks, implementing controls for safety, and completing safety training. Researchers working with chemical or biological materials, radiation, environmental hazards, fire, boats, and researchers with specialized laboratory requirements should contact ESSR to prepare for research needs.
Various agencies and sponsors require institutions go through a series of actions prior to an award being formally closed out. Please use this as a reference for any closeout related inquiries.
Many federal and non-federal sponsors impose limitations on how much an individual can be paid from a sponsored project (frequently called a salary cap). Learn here exactly what a salary cap is, how to calculate it, and the implications of managing an award with salary limitations.
Guidance on award management and determining allowability of costs can be found here.
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.
REDCap is a secure web application for building, managing, and deploying online surveys and databases. REDCap supports offline data collection and synchronization with the REDCap Mobile App, longitudinal and multi-arm studies, secure data storage, project level logging, and customizable user roles and data access groups. Contact us to determine if REDCap can support your project.
The IACUC reviews the use of animals in research, testing and teaching to ensure the humane and ethical use of animals, and compliance with federal laws and their associated regulations, policies and guidelines.Researchers must have IACUC approval to conduct research that involves vertebrate animals.