Standout signal
The public open-access agreements and decision support make author costs and eligibility unusually concrete.
Provisional calibration recordEast Lansing, MI
Michigan State University
Michigan State provides particularly transparent data and open-publishing support, backed by liaison and reference services.
Evidence status
First-pass profile
- Dimensions mapped
- 6/6
- Official sources
- 2
- Independent review
- Pending
No final band or national rank is issued during calibration.
Clearest opportunity
Add a central manuscript-preparation path that connects existing discovery, data, and publishing services.
Dimension assessment
Where the public support pathway is strongest.
Findability and navigation
13/15Reference, data, and scholarly-communication services are discoverable, but the journey is distributed.
Literature search and evidence synthesis
12/15Liaison librarians, research help, and citation tools are visible; structured evidence synthesis is less prominent.
Manuscript preparation and submission
13/20Research workflow and publishing guidance exist, with limited central manuscript-submission support.
Open access, copyright, and publishing
17/20Open-access agreements, author rights, peer review, costs, and repositories are covered in detail.
Integrity, reproducibility, data, and AI
18/20Data-management guidance spans planning, collection, publishing, reuse, and long-term storage.
Practical access and maintenance
9/10Consultations, training, chat, and liaison contacts provide multiple access routes.
Secondary methodology check: the published weighting produces a provisional composite of 82/100 (strong 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.
MSU research data management guidance
The official service covers data planning, collection, analysis, publishing, reuse, preservation, and consultation.
FindabilityIntegrity and dataAccess
MSU scholarly communication
The library describes support for author rights, peer review, access, publishing costs, copyright, and compliance.
EvidenceManuscriptPublishing
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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.