SURF Research Access Management (SRAM) is a service to manage access to research resources, intended for Dutch led research collaborations. It takes away the hassle to create and manage user accounts for different applications. Read the introduction on SRAM on SURF.nl.

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Advantages

For researchers and research collaborations, properly arranging and managing access to research applications (for example creating accounts or disabling them) often takes a lot of time and resources; something that could rather be spent on doing actual research. SRAM provides research collaborations with fast, easy, and secure access.

Read on about the advantages of using SURF Research Access Management.

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There are specific steps for Institutions and application providers.

Conceptual overview

SURF Research Access Management builds upon many well established and proven building blocks for identity management and research, uses international (open) standards where possible (like AARC), and consists mostly of SURF-developed open-source components.

View the schematic overview of SURF Research Access Management.

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Contact us

Questions, or need help? Send us an email at sram-support@surf.nl.

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Release notes

Release notes

How-to guides

Explanations

  • Roles for users of SRAM.
  • About groups, that exist within a research collaboration
  • Types of applications that can be connected to SRAM
  • And many more

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