For Universities & Institutions
Pubrica provides universities and research institutions with statistical support, REDCap and study database builds, funder data management plans, grant writing support and researcher training. Institutional demand for editing, statistics and database support varies through the year while internal capacity is fixed, so overflow work either waits or proceeds without support. We provide additional capacity that works to your standards and supports your core facility rather than replacing it.
- Additional capacity for core facilities, working to your conventions so your own team can support the work afterwards
- Statistics and database support — analysis plans, REDCap builds inside your own instance, and reproducible code your researchers keep
- Funder obligations handled: data management plans in the format currently in force, which NIH updated in 2026
- Training, not just delivery, for departments that prefer to build capability rather than repeatedly buy the output
- Retained arrangements, so researchers with deadlines do not need to raise a purchase order
Editorial and statistical overflowIncluded
Database builds in your own instanceIncluded
Funder data management plansIncluded
Researcher training programmesIncluded
Replacing your core facilityNot offered
Demand → triaged → delivered → to your standards → supported
- Built to your core’s conventions
- Inside your own systems where possible
- Researchers keep the code and the files
- Retained, with no purchase order per project
- Training where capability is the goal
Our Services
Statistics, Database, Data Management and Training Services
Each service is designed to build your institution’s capability rather than create dependence on us.
Supporting your core facilityMost cores are limited by capacity rather than willingness. Work that follows their standards is easier for them to support.
Using your existing systemsWe do not sell infrastructure. You already have an instance, and we provide the expertise to build the project correctly in it.
Institutional templatesResearch offices reviewing many plans each cycle usually correct the same three issues. An institutional template in the current format addresses them once.
Building internal capabilityTraining reduces what an institution buys from us, and we consider that the right outcome.
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Compliance and Standards
Funder, Reporting and Authorship Standards
Institutional work must meet funder requirements as well as journal requirements.
Data management and sharing (in force since 25 Jan 2023)
The policy is unchanged. The plan format was updated in 2026 under NOT-OD-26-046, with implementation in NOT-OD-26-100: seven elements, a 300-word cap on justifying a limitation and a 100-word cap on the data inventory table.
PRISMA 2020 (and the reporting guidelines)
The reporting standard your study design requires — CONSORT 2025 for trials, PRISMA 2020 for reviews, STROBE for observational studies, ARRIVE 2.0 for animal work.
ICMJE Recommendations (authorship and disclosure)
Four authorship criteria, the declarations journals require, and the rule that editing and writing support is acknowledged rather than credited as authorship.
Quality management (cert. H3CR9TCU20251212INDQM10N)
Our certified quality system governs how work is run, recorded and released.
How It Works
How an Institutional Engagement Works
We start by working with your core, because work that bypasses the core creates a second standard.
Standards and scope
We establish your core’s conventions, systems and expectations so the work we produce can be supported internally.
Request and triage
Researchers receive a route to request work, and scoping tells them when a simpler or less expensive option will meet their needs.
Delivery
Work is delivered inside your systems where possible, with code, data dictionaries and documentation handed to the researcher and the core.
Review
We periodically review demand, which often identifies a training need rather than a need for more delivery.
FAQs
Questions from Universities and Research Institutions
If your question is not answered here, ask an expert — no quote is required.
It should not. We build to the core’s conventions specifically to avoid this, as most cores are at capacity rather than unwilling to help.
The effective arrangement is overflow support in which the core sets the standards and can take over anything we build.
Yes, and we prefer to. REDCap builds go into your instance, code follows your conventions, and documentation is written for your team to maintain.
We do not sell infrastructure, and we prefer to keep your data on your systems where possible.
Either on a retained basis, with an agreed volume and a route for researchers to request work, or per project.
A retained arrangement usually suits researchers better, because otherwise they must raise a purchase order against a submission deadline.
We do both, and we will tell you when training is the better purchase. A department that repeatedly buys the same support usually has a capability gap rather than a capacity gap.
Training reduces what you buy from us, which we consider the right outcome.
Related services
Related Audiences and Services
Institutional arrangements serve individual researchers, students and clinicians, each with different needs.
1YOUR RESEARCHERSthe end users
Academic researchersManuscripts, statistics, submission. Students and early careerThesis and first paper.2YOUR CLINICIANSclinical publications
Physicians and cliniciansCase reports and reviews. Clinical trial supportInvestigator-initiated studies.3INSTITUTIONAL SERVICESavailable individually
Grant writingProposals and the plans attached. BiostatisticsPlans, analysis, reproducible code.Request a Free Assessment of Your Overflow Needs
Tell us where your queue is. The need is usually statistics or database builds, and our recommendation often includes training your staff can run themselves.