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On November 19 from 1:00-4:00, the Center for Open Science (COS) and the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will host a workshop on Openness and Reproducibility in Quantitative Research.  

Research Hub, the collaboration and file-sharing platform run for four years by Information Services & Technology (IST), has been retired. The closure, spurred by budgetary constraints, came as an unwelcome surprise to Research Hub users across campus.

The Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) Program is significantly expanding the capacity of the Savio supercomputing cluster, and is adding new computing models to support additional types of workflows across a broad range of research domains.

On October 22nd, individuals from ten different campus organizations and UC partners convened at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science for a planning meeting that laid the groundwork for a second Consulting Summit, currently scheduled for April 2016.

Two new services -- in cloud computing and research data management, each offering free consulting help for campus researchers -- were spotlighted in a Town Hall on September 24, 2015, hosted by Research IT.

The UC Berkeley Research Data Management program, a campus-wide initiative led jointly by the Library and Research IT, is pleased to announce the launch of the RDM Consulting Service and RDM Guide!

UPDATE: The article published following this event includes slide decks and links to videorecordings of the 9/24 Research IT Town Hall.

Campus faculty and researchers are invited to a Research IT Town Hall on Thursday, September 24th to find out more about several campus services available to the UC Berkeley research community:

To help accommodate the growing demand for cloud computing resources from UC Berkeley faculty and other campus researchers, Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) has launched a Cloud Computing Support program, consisting of consulting services, documentation, and tools to help facilitate cloud computing access.

Digital Humanities at Berkeley, a partnership between the Division of Arts and Humanities and Research IT, would like to welcome its newest consultant, Stephanie Moore. Stephanie is a seventh-year Ph.D. student in the English department writing her dissertation on allegory and mnemotechnics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

With the announcement that Box (https://box.berkeley.edu) now offers unlimited storage to UC Berkeley, researchers have an improved option for storing, sharing, and managing large amounts of data.

Digital Humanities at Berkeley, a partnership between the Dean of Arts and Humanities and Research IT, hosted its inaugural Summer Institute (DHBSI) from August 17th - 21st. Instructors came from a variety of campus partner organizations, such as the D-Lab and the Library.

The 2015 Educational Technology Services (ETS) Open House, held August 18th in Dwinelle Hall, offered a pre-semester forum for faculty, instructors, and GSIs to meet organizations that support their teaching and research. The event informed attendees about the resources available to instructors, answer questions related to those services, and provide on-site support consultations. 

Visitors to UC Berkeley's website will find a new portal to museums and collections under the Research section (click the "Museums & collections" link).

This visually engaging page attests to the importance of UC Berkeley's museums and collections as a vital gateway to the university.  The museums and collections portal also includes a link to a more comprehensive list maintained by Research IT.

Research IT has migrated CollectionSpace systems that manage five UC Berkeley museum collections to a consolidated set of centrally-managed hosts and servers. The successful migration was a six-month effort, completed in June 2015.

Researchers who purchase machinery and equipment for use in their research can save considerable sums of money by taking advantage of the California Partial Sales Tax Rate Exemption, in place through June 30, 2022.