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The Coscine documentation has moved and can be found here from now on: Documentation | Coscine.

What is Coscine?

Coscine (/ˈkəʊsaɪn/), short for Collaborative Scientific Integration Environment is a platform for your research data management (RDM).

Coscine offers solutions for robust FDM in accordance with good scientific practice, as required by the NRW Higher Education Act and research funding agencies. As an integration platform, Coscine provides centralized access to your data sources at the project level (e.g., research data repositories, linked files, archived data). Would you like to learn more about Coscine? Then take a look at the presentation About Coscine.

In handling your research data, Coscine offers you:

  • Storage space: RWTH members access free storage space 
  • Collaboration: Access for all project members
  • Metadata: Automatically linked to project data
  • Individuality: Metadata can be created project-specifically as application profiles
  • Archiving: Archive project data for 10 years in place
     

Who can use Coscine?

All active employees at participating DH.NRW universities or research institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia are eligible to use the service. They have the option of using Coscine for their projects. In addition, third parties who have been invited to collaborate by one of the above-mentioned persons or who have received a link to review research data can also access the service.
 

How to use Coscine

To access Coscine, visit the homepage and click on Sign In. The following login options are available:

  1. Login (all institutions) via NFDI RegApp Community AAI: For organizations in RegApp
  2. ORCiD: For external project partners without DFN-AAI. Log in with your ORCiD credentials.

To ensure easy access to all projects and data, link your login methods in your user profile.

Your questions were not answered on our help pages? Then take a look at the FAQs or send us an e-mail to servicedesk@rwth-aachen.de.

Would you like to be informed about new features and further developments of Coscine on a regular basis? Then sign up for the Coscine newsletter.
 

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