SURF Research Access Management

Safe and easy access to research services

SURF Research Access Management is a platform that allows institutions to delegate access to research services for researchers. It enables quick, easy, and secure management of research collaborations. This service is built on established international agreements for authorization and authentication in education and research.

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Advantages

Insight and control

As an institution, you have an overview in one place of which research collaborations exist within your institution, who is a member and which services are used by them.

Save time

Let researchers arrange who belongs to their collaboration.

Future-proof

A national platform, based on internationally agreed standards such as AARC and EOSC, as a gateway towards the international research community.

Open-source

SRAM is een open-source product en we verwelkomen feedback and pull requests in onze publieke code repository.

Flexible

Form your own policies and procedures based on SRAM's flexible roles and functionalities.

Safe

All users from inside and outside your institution log in with multi-factor authentication.

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About SURF Research Access Management

Researchers are increasingly working together: within their own institution, with other institutions or companies, and at home and abroad. Collaborations then want joint secure access to (cloud) applications, computing clusters, datasets or data storage. SURF Research Access Management provides Authentication and Authorisation as a Service for researchers and research supporters. It arranges secure access for web and non-web services, using institutional accounts wherever possible.

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Using this service: three ways to get started

SURF Research Access Management (SRAM) can support your institution in different ways:

Let your researchers participate in external collaborations via invitation.
- Empower your researchers or support staff to create and manage their own collaborations.
- Integrate your research services with SRAM to offer secure, collaboration-based access to both internal and external users.

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Further information

For institutions
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More about SURF Research Access Management

Case study: "With SURF Research Access Management, UT arranges easy and secure access for external researchers"

Case study

"SURF Research Access Management (SRAM) allows our researchers to collaborate securely with external researchers. They can also access our data without us having to create guest accounts," says ICT account manager Hendri Hondorp of the University of Twente (UT). Read more about how UT tackled this.

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Naturalis gives researchers control of their projects with SURF Research Access Management

Case study

In this case story, read why and how Naturalis uses SURF Research Access Management for their researchers.

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