With Coscine, research data can be archived for 10 years on the Research Data Storage (RDS) according to the good scientific practice.

A major goal of Coscine is to facilitate collaboration among researchers, both within and across research groups.

Scientific integrity forms the basis of trustworthy science. Researchers have a great responsibility to meet these requirements in terms of good scientific practice 1 and the FAIR principles 2, which are also anchored in the Higher Education Act of NRW 3.

Coscine is already used by a large number of institutes and in numerous research projects.

Guaranteeing the security of your data is a fundamental pillar of Coscine and the technical realization has long been part of the core business at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University.

Coscine is developed at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University.

The service provision and further development of Coscine takes place at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University.

Metadata are the key to describing research data and making it reusable.

For each project and resource, Coscine assigns a Persistent Identifier (PID).

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

In Coscine, the research project is the overarching connecting element between the stored or linked research data.

The linked IT services in a project are called resources in Coscine.

To support modern research data management, Coscine relies on established standards and forward-looking technologies.

RDM staff and specialists from DH.NRW universities are trained and supported by the Coscine team in various ways.