Standout signal
Research-data and scholarly-communication services are both established and consultation-led.
Provisional calibration recordDurham, NC
Duke University
Duke provides a mature distributed support system spanning discovery, data stewardship, publishing rights, and preservation.
Evidence status
First-pass profile
- Dimensions mapped
- 6/6
- Official sources
- 3
- Independent review
- Pending
No final band or national rank is issued during calibration.
Clearest opportunity
Unify manuscript preparation and journal-selection guidance into a more visible end-to-end route.
Dimension assessment
Where the public support pathway is strongest.
Findability and navigation
14/15Duke Libraries expose research help, subject expertise, data, publishing, and archiving through a coherent service structure.
Literature search and evidence synthesis
13/15Research consultations, guides, and citation support are easy to locate, with deeper synthesis help varying by discipline.
Manuscript preparation and submission
15/20Publishing and archiving routes are visible, while manuscript-preparation guidance is distributed across services.
Open access, copyright, and publishing
17/20Scholarly communication, open access, copyright, and repository support are prominent.
Integrity, reproducibility, data, and AI
17/20Data-management planning, sharing, and preservation guidance cover the research lifecycle.
Practical access and maintenance
9/10Consultations and direct expert contacts provide clear next steps.
Secondary methodology check: the published weighting produces a provisional composite of 85/100 (exemplary band). It is retained for reproducibility, not presented as a rank or award.
Official evidence
Every dimension assessment has a source.
Only institution-owned pages are used for assessment. The public edition will add a correction record and independent-review checks before release.
Duke Libraries research support
The official research hub connects subject specialists, guides, research help, citation tools, and publishing pathways.
FindabilityEvidenceManuscriptAccess
Duke Libraries data management
The service provides planning, organization, documentation, sharing, and consultation support for research data.
Integrity and dataAccess
Duke scholarly publishing and repositories
The library links open-access, copyright, publishing, and institutional repository support.
PublishingManuscript
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Independent reviewers can use the same six-dimension packet to check every source and note. If your institution offers a relevant service that is missing here, send the official page. We will review it under the same rubric and preserve the change in version history.