🧑‍🔬 Researchers

  • Have access to applications more quickly, so they can start their research sooner.
  • Can use their institutional account, so have fewer (local) accounts to manage, and less password hassle.

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🌍 Research collaborations

  • Spend less time and resources on infrastructure- and access management.
  • Get more assurance about identities and whether they are (still) employed by their institution.
  • Get easy secure access management.
  • Get help complying to the GDPR through strong authentication, access logging, etc.

Read on about collaborations, the most important concept in SURF Research Access Management!

🖥️ Research applications and resources

  • Save time and resources setting up and managing access, and on support calls (e.g., password resets).
  • Have more assurance about the identity of collaborating researchers accessing the application.
  • Have better information on when access should be revoked (and thereby comply better with the GDPR).
  • Use open standards to interface with SRAM, which also align with standards used in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
  • Institutions offering applications: stop having to create zero hour contracts (nulurencontracten), often saving thereby saving money on licenses connected to those zero hour contracts.

Read about applications and application providers and how to connect an application to SRAM.

🏫 Institutions

Researchers (and others) often waste time and get frustrated, arranging access to resources they need to access when collaborating in research projects. As employers, institutions want to provide secure and convenient access, so their researchers can maximize their research output.

SRAM enables institutions to provide this fast and secure access. As soon as the institution connects their identity provider (an application that stores and manages digital identities) to SRAM, researchers can use their institutional account to sign in to research applications connected to SRAM. Research collaborations and research applications have more assurance about the identity of the researcher, and are better able to both allow and block access based on this information.

The institution will get information on the research collaborations their researchers are collaborating in, and what applications they use to conduct their research, which is valuable in the context of information management, IPR, research support, GDPR etc. As soon as the institution blocks the account of the researcher, they will lose access to connected applications.

In short:

  • Can delegate access management for researchers and research applications, for instance to Research Support employees.
  • Have a better view of which researchers are involved in what research collaborations.
  • Improve compliance with the GDPR since researchers are not incentivised to use local or social accounts 'to do their work'.
  • Access is revoked as soon as the researcher leaves your institution.

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🏦 Research financing bodies

Consider mentioning SRAM in your grants/policy, since research collaborations using SRAM to manage access can spend more time and resources on actual research.