Research Resource Discovery

Accessibility Outreach ensures departmental and group resources and services meet the accessibility requirements mandated by the Illinois IT Accessibility Act and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality  to help organizations and researchers move faster, lower IT costs, and scale.

Mailing lists can be used by students, faculty, and staff to create email lists for group-based announcements and discussions.

Technology Services supports the Course Explorer web application, which provides a user interface for viewing course schedules and general education requirements. The Course Explorer is backed by a publicly available web API which encourages the targeted extraction of the aforementioned data from campus and departmental applications.

cPanel provides a dashboard with a variety of tools for creating and managing websites hosted on web.illinois.edu. It is available to students, faculty, and staff, and offers easy collaboration with non-University partners through Google authentication.

Engineering IT offers a full suite of website design and development services for units in the College of Engineering. The web team has expertise in digital design, user experience (UX), website application development, and system administration.

As the online learning management system for Illinois, Illinois Compass 2g lets students, faculty, and staff check grades, submit assignments, and store and download instructional and training materials. It is possible to use Illinois Compass 2g from any computer, tablet or phone.

Kaltura is a media hosting platform that allows students, faculty, and staff to share multimedia within a secure campus environment. Content can be shared with the world or restricted to specific users by NetID. The Kaltura platform allows for a self-service YouTube like interface, and offers integrated screen and webcam recording. Illinois Media Spaces, a campus media sharing platform, is powered by Kaltura. Kaltura is integrated with Compass 2G and Learn@Illinois, allowing you to use the same interface and see media you own across campus platforms.

Omeka is a software tool that enables you to create dynamic online exhibits that showcase collections of digital images, text, and other multi-media formats in one seamless site

Funding Announcements and Opportunities Mailing List

Stay up-to-date on the policies, processes, and services that affect the Illinois research enterprise. Join the OVCR mailing list and we will send you a weekly email update on research funding, limited submissions opportunities, research development, compliance oversight, outreach, events, and more.

Subscribe to the OVCR Research Funding and Opportunities mailing list. Unsubscribe from the mailing list.

This mailing list is only for University of Illinois faculty and staff. Non-University email addresses will be removed.

An archive of these email announcements is available here. The archive requires a login with University credentials.  

Subscribe directly to Federal Agency funding alerts and notices.
National Science Foundation | National Institutes of Health | National Endowment for the Humanities 
Department of Energy | Department of Defense

Publish.illinois.edu is a WordPress-based blogging and publishing platform that allows students, faculty, and staff to quickly create and publish online content. 

PWW is a digital scholarly publishing initiative that is scholar-driven, openly accessible, scalable, and sustainable. PWW will directly engage with you throughout the research process. It aims to build publishing models that can be supported locally by a university's library, while also opening new avenues toward publication through university presses and other publishers.

Data, software, service, and asset stewards can request access to security tools that allow them to assess the security of solutions or assets they manage. This enables identification of common security weaknesses or misconfigurations. A Privacy and Information Security professional can be engaged to help interpret the results and provide remediation recommendations or techniques. The Security Vulnerability Consulting and Assessment service also acts autonomously to evaluate the existing vulnerability/exposure landscape, to perform ad-hoc and scheduled vulnerability assessments according to campus policy as needs dictate, or assess exposures at the direction of leadership.

Shibboleth provides secure login authentication to many web-based applications for customers on and off the University campus.  

Skype for Business or Lync are applications that allow graduate students, faculty and staff to make and forward phone and video calls, send instant messages, participate in video conferences and group chats through their computers. Skype for Business or Lync can also deliver voicemail as an email and integrates with Exchange so that Skype meetings show up on calendars.  

This service tracks and documents issues of secure certificates used by campus units. It also provides notifications of upcoming certificate expiration to help ensure uninterrupted operation of campus services.