## Welcome to the RALS Repository! ## This OSF page is meant to enable open collaboration for researchers interested in healthy aging and as an archive for research data, protocols, and materials related to this and previous waves of the RALS project. ---------- ### Navagating through this repository: ### # ***If you would like to contribute to the repository, email Erica Baranski at [ericanbaranski@gmail.com][2]*** She will add you as a contributor to appropriate components within the RALS Repository. ---------- ***Interested in becoming a collaborator or accessing RALS datasets?*** If you're interested in more information of getting started as a RALS collaborator, visit the [Getting Started with RALS][3] component. ---------- ***Interested in current and previous RALS research?*** To learn about the exciting research that has come out of the RALS study, visit the [RALS Registry][4]. This component provides project descriptions, study materials, and researcher contact information for ongoing RALS projects. Use this for your knowledge, to use existing materials, to cite previous RALS studies, or to start up collaborations. ---------- ***Have questions?*** - Please first refer to the FAQ document located in the [Getting Started with RALS component][5]. - If your question has not been answered, feel free to ask your question using the comment icon![] [6] in the top left of this screen. One of the administrators of the repository will respond to your comment shortly. [1]:https://mfr.osf.io/export?url=https://osf.io/r62ag/?action=download%26direct%26mode=render&initialWidth=847&childId=mfrIframe&format=1200x1200.jpeg [2]: ericanbaranski@gmail.com [3]: https://osf.io/xhwnb/ [4]: https://osf.io/mdq5a/ [5]: https://osf.io/xhwnb/ [6]: https://mfr.osf.io/export?url=https://osf.io/fa8kd/?action=download%26direct%26mode=render&initialWidth=847&childId=mfrIframe&format=1200x1200.jpeg ---------------- #### Central aims of the RALS repository #### 1. **Provide open access to structured projects**: Access files, data, code, and protocols in one centralized location and easily build custom organization for your project. Creating a centralized library for RALS documentation will enhance consistency and clarity in file access. This feature of the OSF will also facilitate other scholars’ understanding of the potential the RALS may have for their empirical 2. **Extensible Research**: Automatically create a preprint, meeting abstract, or add to your institutional repository. Manage multi-institutional projects. The OSF will provide an ideal location to house the library of scholarship on the RALS. With numerous conference presentations, multiple journal articles, and two books about the RALS, such a repository would be beneficial for archival purposes as well as to help inform future research on the RALS. 3. **Dependable Repository**: The OSF's Preservation Fund ensures that any data stored in the repository would be maintained and protected for 50 years. Much effort goes into developing and curating the participants of a multigenerational study like the RALS. It is just as important to curate the multigenerational management and analysis of such studies. The long-term planning provided by the OSF ensures this continuity will be maintained into future generations.