Digital Support for Research
Research Support Tools
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REDCap
REDCap is a systematic data entry tool, including surveys for longitudinal and randomised control trials. The web application supports building and managing surveys and forms in order to collect and analyze data. The service provides the possibility for you as a researcher to collect, manage and report clinical research data in a secure manner. Contact the Intersect Digital Research Analyst for access. -
Qualtrics
Qualtrics is a web-based platform and software suite primarily used for creating, distributing, and analyzing surveys, as well as other data collection activities. It's a popular tool for both academic and commercial research, offering a range of features for designing surveys, collecting data, and generating reports. Contact the TDS Service Desk for access. -
Covidence
Covidence is a web-based tool for managing and streamlining your systematic review. It helps streamline your review process, with modules for screening, quality assessment, and data extraction. -
NVivo
NVivo is a software application used for storing, organising, and analyzing qualitative and mixed methods data. It's particularly useful for researchers working with unstructured data from sources like interviews, surveys, and observations. Contact the TDS Service Desk for access. -
Pivot RP
Pivot-RP is a database that helps researchers find funding opportunities and collaborators. It covers many disciplines, including arts, education, health, humanities, science, commerce, and industry. -
Intersect
Find training on a wide range of research-relevant digital tools and technologies, such as Excel, Python, R, SPSS, NVivo, Qualtrics, etc. These courses are available at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.
Analytical Tools
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R and RStudio
R is a free, open source statistical programming language, most commonly used for data analysis and statistical computing. It's also an effective tool for machine learning algorithms. R is especially relevant for data science professionals due to its data cleaning, importing, and visualization capabilities. Contact the TDS Service Desk for access. -
SPSS
SPSS is short for Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, and it's used by various kinds of researchers for complex statistical data analysis. The SPSS software package was created for the management and statistical analysis of social science data. Contact the TDS Service Desk for access. -
Gitlab
GitLab is an open source code repository and a fully integrated solution for managing the entire software development lifecycle. It supports teams at every stage from coding and testing to security, documentation, and governance. Contact the Intersect Digital Research Analyst for access.
External Databases
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Scopus
Scopus is a large, multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social science, and arts and humanities. -
Web of Science
Web of Science (WOS) is a multidisciplinary citation database that indexes scholarly journals, conference proceedings, and books from around the world. It's a platform for discovering and analyzing research literature, allowing users to track citations and analyze research trends. -
PubMed
PubMed is an openly accessible, free database which includes primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics
Research Computing
UNE researchers have access to a number of remote and local computing facilities, with a choice between parallel processing for maximum performance, cloud computing for horizontal scale, or dedicated hosting for domain-specific applications.
High performance computing and parallel processing
National HPC
UNE researchers can access the nation's peak high performance computing facility the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) as an additional service to Intersect Australia membership, either through a paid plan for a nominated allocation of service units or via national merit access.
NCI’s peak supercomputer is Gadi, Australia’s most powerful CPU-based research supercomputer. It contains more than 250,000 CPU cores, 930 Terabytes of memory and 640 GPUs. Additional information regarding HPC and Gadi is available on the NCI website.
To set up your project on Gadi or for more information, contact UNE's Digital Research Analyst.
Local HPC
The School of Science and Technology at UNE has a number of local high-performance computing (HPC) facilities for advanced research in computational sciences. These clusters are designed for carrying out large-memory and data-intensive applications involved in computational chemistry, biology, and ‘big data’ research.
For more information, please contact Norman Gaywood (ngaywood@une.edu.au) or Amir Karton (amir.karton@une.edu.au).
Nectar Cloud computing
The ARDC Nectar Research Cloud (Nectar) is Australia’s national research cloud, specifically designed for research computing. With Nectar, you can quickly take advantage of powerful computing and large-scale storage without the need for specialised IT knowledge. Researchers can build and use software tools, process, share and analyse data, or host online research applications.
UNE researchers can access Nectar through a paid Time plan with Intersect. For more information, contact UNE's Digital Research Analyst.
Local Cloud Computing
Some specialized applications can be run in a Virtual Machine provided TDS.
Contact the TDS service desk for further information.
