Research Support Handbook

Tools

Tools

A tool is a broad term for a software application or platform. These pages list research tools supported by VU Amsterdam, describe what they are for, how to get access and who to contact for questions and support. You will also find manuals describing how to use the tool in your workflow and links to documentation of the supplier.

ADA

ADA is a high performance compute (HPC) cluster for research at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

DataverseNL

Data Publishing

DataverseNL is an Open Access dataset archiving and publication platform used by various institutions. VU Amsterdam has a section for each faculty to archive and publish…

DMPonline

Data Management Plan

DMPonline is an online platform that enables researchers to create, manage, and share Data Management Plans (DMPs). VU Amsterdam offers DMPonline as the institutional online…

iThenticate

Plagiarism Detection

iThenticate is plagiarism detection software that compares a researcher’s original work with published academic work available online, and bibliographical databases such as…

Nebula

Nebula is a new Network Institute initiative that aims to provide researchers from all departments with safe, seamless access to open-source large language models (LLMs).

OSF

Data Publishing

Preregistration

The Open Science Framework (OSF) is a cloud-based open-source research project management tool that supports researchers throughout the active research stage. It facilitates…

Pure

Research Output Registration

Pure is VU Amsterdam’s Current Research Information System (CRIS) that serves as the central research information system for recording all research activities and outputs.…

Qualtrics

Qualtrics is a cloud-based subscription and software platform (SaaS) that enables users to create and manage online surveys. The Qualtrics survey tool can support a variety…

Research Cloud

Virtual Research Environment

SURF Research Cloud is a portal where you easily build a virtual research environment. You can use preconfigured workspaces and datasets or add them yourself. Institutions…

Research Drive

SURF Research Drive is an online storage and collaboration platform for research data. With Research Drive you can easily store and share files with other researchers…

SciCloud

Virtual Research Environment

IT for Research (ITvO) offers SciCloud, a service where server capacity can be purchased to support research applications. SciCloud virtual servers are easy to implement…

SciStor

The storage service SciStor is intended for cheaply storing large amounts of research data on campus.

SciSure

SciSure, previously known as eLabNext, is an application that supports researchers with documenting experiments and results in a digital lab journal. The SciSure platform is…

Snellius

Snellius is the National Supercomputer infrastructure hosted by SURF in Amsterdam.

VU Compute Hub

The VU Compute Hub is a JupyterHub instance hosted by IT at VU Amsterdam. It allows you to run a number of common analysis tools on a server. The Hub is mainly aimed at…

Yoda

Data Publishing

Yoda is an application for institutions that supports Research Data Management (RDM) throughout the entire research cycle: from the safe and easy storage and sharing of data…