Publishing and data management services

Tisch can help manage, share, and preserve your scholarly work. Our services support making your work available and discoverable, and compliant with any applicable funder requirements for data & publication sharing. Your work might include: publications, theses, course work, datasets, audio and video, images, or any other output of your research & scholarship.

Browse this page to find out more about the services we offer, and get in touch with any questions or to schedule a custom workshop for your class, lab, or department on any of these topics.

Data management
Publishing & copyright

Services for specific roles

See below for more details about how our services can support you in your specific role in the Tufts community.

Our services can support researchers with:

  • Making your work open, including:
  • Understanding funders' requirements for data and publication sharing
  • Managing and organizing your research, including:
    • Organizing your data (in Box, research drives, LabArchives, etc.) and writing effective metadata / documentation
    • Creating a data management plan
      • Help using DMPTool
      • Review plans before grant submission
    • Navigating getting permission to use images, text, or other material in your work
    • Using Perma.cc to prevent link rot in your citations

Our services can support instructors with:

Our services can support PIs or lab managers with:

  • Making work from your lab open access, including:
    • Finding funding for article processing charges (APCs)
    • Understanding publisher policies to share your articles or book chapters without a paywall
    • Identifying a repository for published or unpublished work
    • Understanding funders' open access requirements
    • Creating a collection in Tufts Dataverse for your lab's data outputs
  • Hosting an open access journal edited by your lab on your area of research
  • Custom workshops for your lab members/research assistants on data management best practices or publishing lab research outputs
    • Example: Data management basics for Biology undergraduate research assistants
  • Consults with PI, lab manager, or lab members on:
    • Organizing data (in Box, research drives, LabArchives, etc.)
    • Optimizing the lab's data workflow
    • Writing effective metadata / documentation
    • Creating a data management plan for grants
    • Sharing data once a project is complete

Our services can support thesis writers with:

Our services can support research groups that publish reports, white papers, or educational materials with: