Research Workbench

Our Research Workbench provides researchers with useful resources. Take a look.

Supporting Your Research Workflow

Research IT Consultation

The SC&I IT Services staff has a dedicated support tier to assist you in finding the appropriate tools and services for your research and to provide coding and techniques for your project’s analytics and computing requirements.

There are many ways we can help you integrate computing and IT into the research component of your project as well as the management of your project. We have some Pre-Built Examples that you may find useful or inspire new ideas we can help you implement.

Let us help you better. Please contact us: Contact SC&I IT Services Staff.

SC&I Based Tools & Services

(SC&I Funded or Open Source)
AWS

SC&I Provided account and credentials.

Amazon Web Services provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.

Dedoose

License provided by SC&I.

A cross-platform app for analyzing qualitative and mixed methods research with text, photos, audio, videos, spreadsheet data and more.

GitHub

May require additioal licensing, contact SC&I for details.
Free individual account can be obtained by logging into github.com

GitHub provides Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, plus its own features.

KNIME

May require additional licensing, contact SC&I for details.

KNIME is a free and open-source data analytics, reporting and integration platform. KNIME integrates various components for machine learning and data mining through its modular data pipelining “Building Blocks of Analytics” concept.

Meltwater

SC&I Provided account and credentials.

Meltwater is a SaaS solution which offers comprehensive social media monitoring.

Overleaf

Faculties can reach out for an account.

Overleaf is a LaTeX editor typesetting editor.

Volunteer Science

SC&I Provided account and credentials.

Individual researchers can create online studies and recruit participants for data gathering for research.

University Based Tools & Services

(Rutgers Funded)
Mathematica

Free License can be obtained by logging in to software.rutgers.edu or throught RU Virtual Computer Labs.

Mathematica is a symbolic mathematical computation program, sometimes called a computer algebra program, used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical, and computing fields.

Mathworks MATLAB

Free License can be obtained by logging in to software.rutgers.edu or throught RU Virtual Computer Labs.

MATLAB is a programming and numeric computing platform used by engineers and scientists to analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models.

NVivo

Free License can be obtained by logging in to software.rutgers.edu or throught RU Virtual Computer Labs.

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis computer software package. It helps qualitative researchers to organize, analyze and find insights in unstructured or qualitative data like interviews, open-ended survey responses, journal articles, social media and web content, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required.

Other Tools & Services

GitLab

University Provided account and credentials.

GitLab is an open source code repository and collaborative software development platform for large DevOps and DevSecOps projects.

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is a social media management platform. The system’s user interface takes the form of a dashboard, and supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Jupyter Notebook

Can be accessed through RU Virtual Computer Labs.

The Jupyter Notebook is the original web application for creating and sharing computational documents. It offers a simple, streamlined, document-centric experience.

Qualtrics

Qualtrics is web based software that allows the user to create surveys, polls and generate reports without having any previous programming knowledge.

SAS

User Paid License can be obtained by logging in to software.rutgers.edu or through RU Virtual Computer Labs.

SAS is a statistical software suite for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, criminal investigation, and predictive analytics.

Slack

Slack is an instant messaging program.

SPSS Statistics

User Paid License can be obtained by logging in to software.rutgers.edu or through RU Virtual Computer Labs.

SPSS Statistics is a statistical software suite developed by IBM for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business intelligence, criminal investigation.

STATA

User Paid License can be obtained by logging in to software.rutgers.edu or through RU Virtual Computer Labs.

A general-purpose statistical software package developed by StataCorp for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting.

Tableau

User Paid License can be obtained by logging in to tableau.com.

Tableau is a visual analytics engine that makes it easier to create interactive visual analytics in the form of dashboards.