RESEARCH TOOLS AND RESOURCES

The bookable research space on the 7th floor - TRS 1-029 is once again online and available to book for short term research needs (for example, focus groups, participant interviews, etc.) as well as for research-based meetings. 

The room has whiteboards, a monitor to connect your laptop, movable tables and chairs. The full capacity is 12, but it is most comfortable with 10.

Please contact trs.events@torontomu.ca with the following details if you'd like to book a lab for your research projects.

• Principle Investigator (PI) name

• Number of research assistants (RA) participating

• Reason for requesting space (focus group/interview, etc)

• Date(s) and time(s) of booking

Once the space is booked, researchers will need to sign out a key to access the room.

The Toronto Metropolitan University Library Collaboratory is a space on the 3rd floor of the Library and provides graduate students, faculty and their research teams with space and technology resources to facilitate research and course development. 

Statista

All Toronto Metropolitan University Community members can now access Statista with their Toronto Metropolitan credentials. Users will then be prompted to enter in their Toronto Metropolitan credentials.

Open Government Data

For researchers looking for government datasets, the federal government has started a website that provides information (and links) on open government activities across the country. The website covers federal, provincial and municipal levels of government.

Ted Rogers School faculty and students (both undergraduate and graduate) have access to Qualtrics Survey Suite and are encouraged to use this powerful survey tool in their academic and research endeavors.

How to get access to Qualtrics

TRS faculty, students and staff can contact bizhelp@torontomu.ca to be added as a user.

Qualtrics can be accessed via the login page here.

HELP AND SUPPORT:

Once you have logged in, click 'Help' on the top right-hand corner and select 'Support Site' that opens a number of Qualtrics topics to help develop and administer surveys and obtain reports 'or' once you've logged in, then please refer to the Help and Tutorials section.

The Ted Rogers School's Advisory Council consists of industry leaders whose collective knowledge and deep real-world experience advances the Ted Rogers School's vision of shaping diverse global leaders through experiential education that is practical, innovative and socially conscious. 

Faculty members who wish to contact or collaborate with the advisory council members should contact Senior Advisor, External Stakeholder, Sana Mulji at sana.mulji@torontomu.ca Engagement and Strategic Partnerships. 

How to Access the Virtual Lab 

Please review this link for instructions on how to access the TRSM Faculty Research Virtual Lab Environment.

List of Software Currently Available

Please see below for a full list of software installed on the virtual machines: 

·  MATLAB

·  Mendeley Reference Manager

·  Microsoft Office Suite 2019

·  Microsoft Power BI (Free Version)

·  Microsoft Project 2019

·  Microsoft Visio 2019

·  Nvivo

·  R and RStudio

·  SmartPLS

·  SPSS

·  STATA

·  Zotero and Zotero Storage

All funded or unfunded research involving humans, animals or controlled goods undertaken at Toronto Metropolitan University facilities and conducted by Toronto Metropolitan University faculty, students and staff is subject to review and approval. The materials can be accessed on the research ethics website. Faculty researchers are encouraged to use the new templates for your REB submissions and to download them as convenient.  Resources included in the TMU REB Educational Resource Document and the Ethics FAQs can be accessed on the TMU research ethics site. Please reach out to rebchair@torontomu.ca for any questions. 

TRSM does not have subscription to a plagiarism detection software to perform similarity checks particularly on research manuscripts but faculty members who would like to use such software are advised to look into iThenticate. 

Recorded SRC Sessions

Scholarly Publishing and GenAI Considerations:  Generative AI is reshaping the scholarly publishing landscape, introducing new opportunities alongside research integrity challenges. This talk explores the evolving role of AI tools in research and writing, highlighting key considerations for authors navigating new and emerging journal policies, authorship criteria, transparency requirements, and disclosure expectations. Participants will gain insight into how publishers and the research community are responding to AI assisted scholarship, including emerging guidance on acceptable uses, attribution, data privacy, intellectual property issues, assisted peer-review, and the risks of hallucinated citations or unreliable outputs.  

Link to the presentation slides

Watch the recording of this session (13 March 2026), Scholarly Publishing and GenAI Considerations

RShare Workshop: RShare is Toronto Metropolitan University’s institutional repository and research collaboration platform for research data and scholarly outputs produced by members of the Toronto Metropolitan University community and their collaborators.  This repository will disseminate the scholarly record of the university and make it available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner.  It is also the home of the University’s online archive of PhD dissertations and Masters theses. This session will show you how to set up your RShare profile, tie it to your ORCID account, and deposit your academic work and data.

Watch the recording of this session, RShare Workshop

Open Access and Library Transformative Agreements: In this session the importance of publishing your work open access, and the transformative agreements and publishing discounts available to TMU faculty and staff and students was discussed. Transformative agreements are arranged at the Library consortial level and offer total fee waivers or discounts for select journals so that open access publishing fees or APCs are more affordable or even in some cases free. With the help of a Library tool, Scifree, you can discover which journals are covered, and discuss the process on how to make sure your paper can be made open access when possible.

Watch the recorded session (April 2025): OA and Library Transformative Agreements