Building Effective Collaborations

The following resources and tools can help your team communicate more effectively.

Research Team Startup guide
Quick guides developed by SC CTSI specially for biomedical research teams: 

• Before You Start
• How to Write a Collaboration Plan

Virtual Team Tools

The right digital tools are essential for the modern research teams in order to work together efficiently for collaboration from a distance. 

• Digital tools offered by USC ITS and free wares recommended by the Science of Team Science community
• USC ITS supported tools:
  
  • One Drive for Business (HIPAA and FERPA compliance)
  • Dropbox for USC Faculty 
  • Skype for Business – video conferencing platform
  • Google Hangouts – chat conversation and video call
  • Google Drive
    
• Other free digital collaboration tools recommended by the Science of Team Science community
  • Open Science Framework, a cloud-based project management tool
  • NCIP Hub, a resource for collaboration and sharing of data, tools, and standards among the cancer research community
  • Tableau, a data visualization and sharing software available for Windows and Mac
  • HUBzero, an open source toolkit used to build web sites for online collaboration. It helps teams work together, publicly or privately, to gather data, build simulation/modeling tools, publish digital assets, and interact online.