Research Priorities
Review the Institute’s principal areas of intended focus and the criteria used to select future research.
Review research priorities
Research Support
Researcher Resources
A central guide to the Institute’s developing research policies, review pathways, data standards, publication resources, collaboration procedures, repository guidance, and responsible research practices.
Research Support
Give researchers one place to find the standards, procedures, and tools needed to do responsible work.
The Institute intends to support researchers through clear guidance, consistent review processes, practical templates, secure systems, scholarly communication resources, and access to institutional expertise.
Some resources described on this page are planned and may
not yet be active. Researchers should confirm current
requirements, forms, contacts, approvals, and submission
methods before beginning work.
Plan a Research Project
Resources for developing a research question, defining scope, identifying collaborators, and preparing for review.
Research Projects
Explore proposed, developing, active, and future projects across the Institute’s six research fields.
View the project portfolioCenters and Laboratories
Learn about proposed research centers, laboratories, shared infrastructure, and activation requirements.
Explore research infrastructurePropose a Collaboration
Submit an initial inquiry involving joint research, data, facilities, field sites, archives, or implementation.
Review proposal guidanceSponsored Research
Review expectations for grants, budgets, reporting, financial controls, and sponsored research administration.
Review the grant policyConflict of Interest
Understand disclosure, review, management, and recusal requirements for financial and professional interests.
Review conflict standardsResearch Ethics and Oversight
Policies governing participant protection, research integrity, misconduct review, animals, biosafety, and responsible scholarly conduct.
Research Ethics & Integrity
The Institute’s central framework for honest, responsible, transparent, and accountable research.
Review the integrity frameworkParticipant Protection
Requirements for informed consent, risk review, privacy, vulnerable populations, and responsible human research.
Review human-subject protectionsAnimal Care and Use
Standards for necessity, humane care, alternatives, oversight, veterinary support, and approved research use.
Review animal-care standardsResearch Misconduct
Procedures for allegations, preliminary assessment, inquiry, investigation, findings, correction, and appeal.
Review misconduct proceduresAuthorship and Publication Ethics
Guidance for contributor roles, attribution, ghostwriting, conflicts, duplicate publication, and corrections.
Review authorship standardsEditorial Independence
Standards supporting fair review, editorial autonomy, reviewer conduct, confidentiality, and scholarly quality.
Review editorial standardsResearch Data, Software, and Reproducibility
Resources for planning, collecting, securing, documenting, analyzing, preserving, sharing, and reproducing research.
Research Data and Software
Standards for data-management plans, version control, documentation, reproducibility, sharing, and preservation.
Review data and software standardsData Governance and Cybersecurity
Requirements for access control, sensitive information, vendors, security, incident response, and institutional data.
Review data governanceDigital Continuity
Guidance for durable formats, integrity checking, backups, migration, repository continuity, and long-term access.
Review preservation standardsIdentifiers and Indexing
Standards for metadata quality, persistent identifiers, author identity, indexing, citations, and discoverability.
Review metadata standardsIntellectual Property
Guidance for inventions, software, data, licenses, technology transfer, background rights, and public benefit.
Review intellectual-property policyOpen Access and Licensing
Standards for public access, author rights, licenses, scholarly reuse, embargoes, and responsible distribution.
Review open-access standardsPublishing and Scholarly Communication
Guidance for authors, reviewers, editors, contributors, and researchers preparing work for public dissemination.
Publications
Explore reports, papers, briefs, books, research notes, and other Institute scholarly and public-facing output.
Visit PublicationsPublication Ethics
Review expectations concerning originality, authorship, conflicts, citations, corrections, and responsible claims.
Review publication ethicsPeer Review Standards
Guidance for reviewer selection, confidentiality, independence, fairness, conflicts, and editorial decisions.
Review peer-review standardsJR Research Archive
Repository policies and technical guidance for submissions, moderation, metadata, file standards, preservation, access, and service continuity.
JR Research Archive
Learn about the Institute’s developing scholarly repository, collections, services, and public mission.
Visit the archiveSubmission and Moderation
Review submission eligibility, moderation principles, repository governance, and record-management expectations.
Review submission governanceFile Requirements
Guidance for document formats, supplemental files, technical validation, accessibility, integrity, and uploads.
Review file standardsCollections and Classification
Learn how records may be organized, assigned to subjects, curated, reclassified, and connected across collections.
Review curation standardsAcceptable Use
Standards for human and automated access, bulk use, security, rate limits, scraping, and responsible conduct.
Review acceptable useTakedown and Restricted Access
Procedures for legal requests, privacy claims, restricted records, rights disputes, and temporary or permanent access limits.
Review takedown proceduresSafety, Security, and Compliance
Specialized requirements for laboratories, facilities, international work, field operations, and secure systems.
Biosafety and Biosecurity
Standards for biological materials, containment, training, security, incident response, and responsible research.
Review biosafety standardsChemical and Radiation Safety
Guidance for hazardous materials, radiation, equipment, waste, exposure prevention, emergency response, and training.
Review laboratory safetyExport Controls and International Collaboration
Requirements for controlled technology, international partners, travel, visitors, disclosures, and research security.
Review research-security standardsPhysical Security and Access
Standards for facility access, credentials, restricted areas, visitors, assets, security systems, and emergency controls.
Review facility standardsTransportation Safety
Guidance for fleet, aviation, marine, field travel, operator qualifications, maintenance, insurance, and incidents.
Review transportation safetyEmergency and Disaster Recovery
Standards for emergency planning, continuity, backups, communication, recovery priorities, and institutional resilience.
Review continuity standardsPartnerships and Collaboration
Resources for researchers working with external institutions, sponsors, communities, vendors, and implementation partners.
Work With the Institute
Learn about institutional partnerships involving universities, agencies, companies, foundations, and communities.
Explore partnershipsResearch Collaboration Inquiry
Review what to include in an initial research collaboration, field-site, data, or infrastructure proposal.
Prepare an inquiryProcurement and Vendor Management
Standards for purchasing, competition, due diligence, contracts, conflicts, performance, and vendor oversight.
Review procurement standardsResearch Project Readiness Checklist
A high-level checklist for determining whether a project is prepared to move from concept toward formal review.
Research Question
The problem, objective, expected contribution, and intended public or scholarly value are clearly defined.
Leadership and Roles
The principal investigator, collaborators, staff, decision authority, responsibilities, and supervision are identified.
Methods and Evidence
The study design, methods, data sources, analytical approach, limitations, and quality controls are documented.
Ethics and Participants
Human, animal, community, privacy, consent, vulnerability, and fairness considerations have been assessed.
Safety and Security
Laboratory, field, facility, cybersecurity, export-control, transportation, and emergency risks have been reviewed.
Data Management
Collection, access, storage, security, metadata, analysis, sharing, retention, and preservation plans are established.
Resources and Budget
Personnel, equipment, facilities, funding, procurement, insurance, and operational support are realistically addressed.
Outputs and Publication
Authorship, intellectual property, publication, repository, correction, and public communication expectations are defined.
Need help finding the correct research process?
Contact the Institute with a brief description of the proposed project, participants, methods, data, facilities, collaborators, and the kind of guidance or review needed.