myLaminin Newletter

Welcome to myLaminin, the most complete, integrated, and secure full Research Data Management (RDM) lifecycle platform on the market. myLaminin is the only generalist data repository supporting the conduct of research including global team collaboration, agreement management with eSignature support, robust data collection (eSurvey) capabilities with PHI data, medical ontology and medical templates, Research Ethics Board with support for institutional forms and external reviewers, robust research data repository with role-based access control, audit trail of all actions undertaken on the research data repository, as well as cybersecurity and privacy regulatory requirements.

As a research-agnostic RDM platform, myLaminin secures research data, facilitates global collaboration, and regulatory compliance. We are proud to continue to grow our user base as we continue to onboard researchers and institutions conducting leading healthcare, engineering, and social science programs globally.

In an effort to support researchers on their innovation and breakthroughs, we will focus this issue on some of the new features, capabilities and initiatives we are undertaking - some with collaboration and input from some of our key clients and users.

"We’re really enjoying using myLaminin - it’s a great way for us
to share data on this project."

Dr. Ryley Beddoe Ph.D., Associate Professor, Royal Military College

Our interns and leadership team have also been busy authoring some interesting articles over the past few weeks covering everything from the use of synthetic data in research, data sovereignty, to facilitating cross-jurisdictional and interdisciplinary collaboration. We encourage you to review these and tell us what you think.

We would also welcome your input to a broad survey we have just launched to get a practitioner’s view of the current state of RDM practice. It’s a very succinct (4 question) survey and you can contribute to it here.

A Better Way to Address Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Ethics Across Disciplines

Our recently published article, Research Security Reimagined - A Better Way to Address Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Ethics Across Disciplines, proposes a comprehensive, yet flexible framework for an institutional Research Security Office that adapts to different research discipline needs and regulatory requirements. It also includes a proposed myLaminin RSO template that you can download and tailor to your institutional context.

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We’re Working on the ‘Last Mile’ of Research Data Management

We are excited to be very near completion of what we believe is the ‘last mile of RDM’ - supporting researchers and research librarians in facilitating the publication of research data sets. This includes:

• Structured metadata capture, maintenance, Research Librarian review, and approval process.

• PI and/or Research Librarian having the ability to push metadata about datasets (e.g., title, authors, DOI, publication date) to a researcher’s ORCID record.

• PI has the ability to  pull publication or dataset info from ORCID to populate researcher profiles or link related outputs.

• Automate funding agency DMP requirements supporting FAIR and Open Science principles by publishing research datasets to an institution's Dataverse instance.

Our aim is to facilitate fulfilment of FAIR and Open Science principles as well as the interaction with academic journals and publishers.

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Support for Regulatory Standards Compliance

Over the past 6 months the myLaminin technical and leadership teams set a massive benchmark goal for ourselves. We undertook a significant effort to position myLaminin as the most complete, integrated, and secure RDM platform globally. But we also wanted it to be the most compliant internationally. To do this, we set out to address several security and privacy regulatory compliance standards including:

• NIST 800-171 (protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in non-federal systems) which just went into effect on January 25, 2025 in the US,

• PHIPA (Personal Health Information Protection Act) (Ontario)

• HIPAA, (Personal Health Information Protection Act) (USA)

• 21 CFR Part 11 (governs the use of electronic records and electronic signatures in regulated industries) (USA)

• PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) (Canada), and

• GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) (EU)

We are very proud to report that we have refreshed our website to reflect our current compliance statements against each of these regulatory standards and believe we are now not only the most complete, integrated, and secure RDM platform in the world but also the most regulatory-compliant RDM platform globally. While we have some minor work remaining to post our GDPR compliance, we are confident that we are currently 86% compliant with these EU regulations.

As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. And be sure to stay current with all our movement by following any of our social media posts.