Research Guides: Scholarly Communication Support: Planning, Conducting, Disseminating, Promoting, & Assessing Research: Project Management & Collaboration

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Project Management & Collaboration

Why Register Your Research Protocol?

Registering your protocol before conducting your research is a way of increasing transparency and credibility. Registering a protocol before an experiment begins shows that your hypothesis, approach, and plan for analysis were developed in advance, rather than being shaped by data after it was collected. This adds to scientific rigor and protects you against concerns about selective reporting of results.

General Protocols

Protocols.io
Develop, use, modify, share, and publish your methods, all in one place
Protocol Exchange
From Nature Portfolio; open repository for sharing scientific research protocols freely with the scientific community for use and comment
Bio-Protocol
Online peer-reviewed protocol journal curating and hosting protocols across the life sciences

Why Register Evidence Synthesis Protocols?

Register your protocol for a systematic review or other evidence synthesis in order to allow better clarity around the conduct and analysis of reviews, avoid publication bias and selective reporting of outcome-related bias, avoid unnecessary duplication (reviews take a long time, and someone else won't want to start a review duplicative of one that's already underway), promote collaboration, and assist with prioritization.

Systematic Review, Scoping Review, and Other Evidence Synthesis Protocols

Open Science Framework (OSF)
When your evidence synthesis protocol is not a good fit for the subject-specific registries listed
PROSPERO
Health outcomes only
Systematic review only (no scoping reviews)
Cochrane
Health sciences
Rigorous submission process
Protocols cross-post to PROSPERO
Campbell Collaboration
Social sciences
Protocols & reviews published in Campbell Systematic Reviews journal
SYREAF
Animal and food science protocols
Collaboration for Environmental Evidence
Environmental sciences
Protocols & reviews published in Environmental Evidence journal

Choosing reference management software
Includes a helpful table comparing Mendeley and Zotero

Zotero "Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research."
Zotero Quick-Start Guide An overview of Zotero's features and capabilities, with basic how-to instructions

Mendeley "Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research."
Getting Started with Mendeley Reference Manager This guide helps you start using Mendeley Reference Manager

EndNote Web from the SHSU Library EndNote Web is a web-based citation management program. Access is provided by the Newton Gresham Library.
EndNote Quick Reference Guide This guide provides an overview of features available and how to access them

These browser plugins / extensions quickly connect you to PDFs, from both library subscriptions and open access repositories across the web.

Unpaywall Browser Extension When you browse to a paywalled paper, we check to see if there's a free copy in our database. If there is, you'll see a green tab on your screen...just click, and read! We harvest our content from thousands of university and government web servers all over the world. The fulltext articles we find there have been legally uploaded by authors, with permission from publishers.
Open Access Button
EndNote Click (formerly Kopernio)
Comparison of Researcher workflow plugins
Helpful feature comparison chart from EndNote Click

Zoom
- Remote conferencing services; combines video conferencing, online meetings, and chat.
- Zoom meetings can include both SHSU and external collaborators.
Microsoft Teams
- Teamwork app. A "team" is a collection of people, content, and tools based on a specific project or group. Each Team can include group discussion posts, file-sharing, calendars, online meetings, and person-to-person chat. Integrates with other Microsoft and third-party apps.
- Currently Teams can include only SHSU collaborators, but IT@Sam expects to add the capability for external collaborators in the future. We'll update it here when it happens!
Open Science Framework (OSF)
A combined collaborative research workspace and repository. Store your data here while you’re collecting, refining, documenting, analyzing, etc. All collaborators can share access, and OSF provides built-in version control to keep track of ongoing changes. Once a project is complete, you have the option to publicly share the dataset in OSF, complete with a DOI for citing and sharing. OSF is an approved generalist repository for most federally funded projects. Use is free; storage is free for up to 5GB of private storage or 50GB of public storage, but you can also integrate add-ons like Google Drive to increase storage.

Giving CRediT in Collaboration

Is the first author the lead researcher? Or it is the second author, or the last author? Practices vary among disciplines, journals, and individuals. Eliminate the guesswork for your readers and provide explicit details about how each researcher contributed.

The CRediT taxonomy is one option for how to describe contributions in a clear, standardized way.

CRediT Taxonomy for Scholarly Contributions
"CRediT is high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, that can be used to represent the roles typically played by contributors to scientific scholarly output. The roles describe each contributor’s specific contribution to the scholarly output."

Digital Tools for Researchers
Discover additional tools for project management, lab management, electronic lab notebooks, and much more on the Connected Researcher website, maintained by biomaterials researcher Thomas Crouzier