December 5 is the soft launch of the new Data Safety Application!
The research administration and compliance team has been working with the Office of the Vice Provost of Research and Harvard University Information Technology to develop a Data Safety system to support the review and implementation of research data management plans. The soft launch of the Data Safety application on December 5 will provide a period where SSOs can use the system to complete reviews and work with research teams to gather feedback. Based on this period of feedback, we will continue to refine system functionality and make improvements to the security review process.
What is Data Safety? It is a new application intended to support tracking, monitoring, and compliance associated with to the data security requirements for research data sets (sensitive information collected as part of research, or obtained or shared under a Data Use Agreement or sponsored award).
Please visit the Research Administration and Compliance Systems page for system and policy information or register for an upcoming information session.
Agreements Upgrade
The Agreements support team announces its December release. This configuration release brings exciting improvements to Harvard’s increasingly integrated research administration systems.
Agreements will be unavailable on Thursday, December 5 from 6:00-11:00 pm ET to allow for system updates.
As part of the December release, a new Data Safety and Security application will be made available in our system and it will be possible to establish and display relationships between studies and submissions in ESTR-IRB, Agreements-DUA, and the Data Safety systems. This new option to relate projects in all three systems will allow researchers and administrators to quickly access related projects in other systems. Although proposed revisions to the Harvard Research Data Security Policy are still under review, the Safety system will have its soft launch in December to support the security review process. Future enhancements will support even greater improvements to the process.
View the detailed release notes to learn about key changes made with this update.
Contact the DUA Help Desk with any questions or concerns.