Office of Research Information Systems

The Office of Research Information Systems (ORIS) provides electronic research administration tools to the Ohio State enterprise. Our goal is simple: make the business of doing research as streamlined as possible for research administration staff and researchers alike.

ORIS is made up of three internal units, application development, reporting and analytics, and research engineering support, that together deliver and support the application and data lifecycle for research administration needs.

Application development

ORIS builds, runs, and documents more than two dozen research applications, including:

• Conflict of Interest (COI)
• Study Management (e-Protocol, Huron IRB)
• Animal Operations (Allentown)
• Grants Financials Reporting (PI Portal)
• Electronic Informed Consent (Signet)

If your project strengthens the Ohio State research ecosystem, we offer custom application development to support it, and we can make data from these systems available to other Ohio State platforms. We also provide front-line support for these application and reporting systems, helping new members of the research community get oriented to the tools they will use at Ohio State. See the full list of applications we support.

Data integration, reporting, and analytics

Our data team pulls information from many sources into a single, unified source that powers applications and reports. We build and maintain the financial and regulatory reports the enterprise relies on, and we serve as the research reporting lead within the RAE system. Whether the data lives locally or in an enterprise system, we can create custom transformation and reporting solutions for any campus group that wants to understand and use its grants data more effectively.

Research engineering support

Research environments have technical needs that enterprise IT is not built to meet. Our research engineering support group works in that space, providing hands-on solutions for lab automation, instrumentation, and environmental monitoring. The group also manages the research enterprise application portfolio, including the Huron Research Suite, keeping the systems researchers depend on available, compliant, and connected to the work happening in the lab.

Web development

ORIS builds and maintains websites for the research enterprise, including research.osu.edu. If your project strengthens the Ohio State research ecosystem, we offer website development to support it, built to meet Ohio State brand and accessibility standards.

Accessibility Coordinator

ORIS is home to the organizational Accessibility Coordinator. Every website, application, and digital asset at Ohio State needs to be accessible, and anything that falls short has to be remediated. The Accessibility Coordinator performs in-depth, certified accessibility evaluations, and can review your purchases and digital products to confirm they meet the required standards before they reach your users.

Access to any ORIS service starts with an email to the ERIK service desk. We will talk through what you need and connect you with the team member best suited to solve it. For advanced projects, we provide a business analyst and project manager to help define your requirements and keep the work on track.