Wide variety of resources for managing research data. Emphasizes on preparing data management plans and focuses on describing, accessing, reusing, archiving, and preserving research data.

Much of this is also relevant at other PSU campuses. Links to many data repositories, as well as university resources for research data management.

Penn State's copyright page to learn more about copyright and how it applies to you.

Useful copyright information for everyone, not just grad students!

Information about measuring impacts of authors and journals through citation searching, h-index, journal impact reports, and other measures.

Want to be sure your publications are linked to you and not to someone else with a similar name? Many scientific publishers now either require or strongly recommend that their authors have an ORCID id. Registering is fast, easy, and free.

Allows you to measure research productivity and benchmark against other institutions, as well as identify potential research collaborators and trends in your field.

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions

Visit this site for information about Penn State's open access policy, AC02. You can make your work open or get a waiver of the policy via this site.

In this guide you will find information about the open access movement. It also includes a list of discounts on open access publishing charges that are available to PSU authors.

Find out information about open access policies/options available from different publishers. Also has information on funder requirements and a "Funders and Authors Compliance Tool."