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area requesting help. For example, social science metadata creation is supported by both the Institute for Social and
Economic Research and the library, but environmental science metadata creation would be primarily supported by
metadata librarians.
Information Services &Technology, Clinical and Transitional Science Institute, Data Coordinating Center
Information Technology Services
Institute for Policy and Social Research, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis, Central IT for the campus
IRB
Odum ITS Research Computing RENCI DICE. The Carolina Population Center offers anonymization and securing
services only to their own fellows the Sheps Center and other institutes on campus likely have similar services for their
own affiliates.
Office of Grants and Contracts Administration, Research Compliance, Institute for Social Science Research
Office of Research Services
Office of Research Services: Help with securing &anonymizing data per research conduct policies &Institutional Review
Board, advising on institutional data polices (e.g., retention, IP ownership). UIT: Data storage and backup planning.
Office of Sponsored Research, School of Medicine, College of Engineering
Other academic departments and organizational units
Our research office (office for sponsored programs or OSP) works with researchers also in data sharing requirements.
Central and departmental IT also work on storage, file organization and anonymizing of data, and security concerns.
They are also partners in our data management best practices workshops.
Research Computing (central IT), IRB
Research computing and office of research
Research Computing includes some materials on their website in collaboration with the Libraries and links to the
Libraries. For help with securing and anonymizing data, the different control support units like IRB, the Privacy Office,
and others offer online and other training on data security as a matter of conformance and compliance with policies and
law, and the Libraries refer people to those groups.
Social Sciences Research Institute (SSRI): Data Services Core Central IT academic computing services Health Sciences,
data management services
Sponsored Programs
Storage and backup planning is offered to a limited extent by college IT groups and by central computing’s RCC/HPC
service.
Unit and campus IT groups provide help with data storage and backup, and with securing confidential data. The office
of responsible conduct of research addresses IRB issues and also consults on confidential/sensitive data. Technology
transfer also consults with researchers on intellectual property and data sharing issues.
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