Research Administration & Compliance Systems - December 2020 Update

December 4, 2020

Here are the latest updates about ESTR-IRB, Agreements-DUA, Data Safety, ecrt and PI Dashboard.

ESTR

  • IRB ESTR-IRB will be unavailable for a few hours in late January 2021 to bring the new Outside Activity and Interest Reporting (OAIR) system online.
  • Visit the ESTR support site in the new year for details about this outage and our new OAIR system.

Please note that the ESTR Help Desk will be closed during the winter recess.

Agreements

  • Agreements-DUA will be unavailable for a few hours in late January 2021 to bring the new Outside Activity and Interest Reporting (OAIR) system online.
  • Visit the Agreements-DUA support site in the new year for details about this outage and our new OAIR system.

Please note that the Agreements-DUA Help Desk will be closed during the winter recess.

Safety

  • Data Safety will be unavailable for a few hours in late January 2021 to bring the new Outside Activity and Interest Reporting (OAIR) system online.
  • Visit the Data Safety Support site in the new year for details about this outage and our new OAIR system.

Please note that the Data Safety Help Desk will be closed during the winter recess.

ecrt

Please note that the ecrt Help Desk will be closed during the winter recess.

PI Dashboard

  • The team completed several database and application server software upgrades.
  • School key contacts reviewing their local school PI Dashboard user access rules.  Deadline to complete this task is December 11, 2020.
  • PI Dashboard will be available during the holiday break.  The Harvard Data Warehouse (HDW) team, however, will suspend its nightly loads during the break from December 25, 2020 through December 30, 2020.  During this period, PI Dashboard will reflect transactions as of the end of day December 24, 2020.  On the evening of December 31, 2020, HDW updates will return to the normal schedule. We will resume the PI Dashboard daily extract/load process on the morning of January 1, 2021.

The PI Dashboard Help Desk will be closed during the Holiday Break.