Providing direct access, resources and training guides to research administration tools and systems. View resources for individual systems below, or view how RA tools and systems interact with each other.
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Provides training for research requirements, including the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research (RECR), Financial Conflicts of Interest (COI), Human Subjects, Export Controls and Undue Foreign Influence.
- Log in: CITI Training (Touchstone required)
- Available to: PIs and other researchers, staff, students
- Documentation and help:
- For more information: CITI Training Courses
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Manage your human subject protocol submissions to COUHES (Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects), MIT's IRB.
- Log in: COUHES Connect (Touchstone required)
- Available to: PIs and other researchers, staff
- Documentation and help:
- For more information: COUHES
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When submitting proposals to NIH, submit copies of outside contracts or other agreements with foreign entities to the External Contract Depository. Uploaded documents will receive a high-level review by MIT’s Office of the Vice President for Research and the Office of the General Counsel to help ensure compliance with NIH requirements.
- Log in: External Contract Depository (Touchstone required)
- Available to: PIs and other researchers
- For more information: NIH Sponsor Information
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Researchers can submit applications for limited submission proposals through the MIT Funding Opportunities Portal. Administrators may also use the portal to host internal competitions.
- Access: MIT Funding Opportunities portal
- Available to: PIs and other researchers, staff
- For more information: Limited Submissions
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Submit requests for non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), data use agreements (DUAs), and material transfer agreements (MTAs) with collaborators at other organizations.
- Log in: Hermes Portal (Touchstone required)
- Available to: PIs and other researchers, staff
- For more information: OSATT Core Hermes Team
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Use the IIC tool to report international collaborations undertaken without written agreements or exchange of funds. The VPR Compliance team will review each submitted collaboration and contact the researcher with any questions or concerns.
- Log in: IIC tool (Touchstone required)
- Available to: PIs and other researchers, staff, students
- For more information: Informal Collaborations
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Kuali Coeus (KC) is the award management system of record used for proposal development, tracking of submitted proposals, and award acquisition and management.
- Log in: Kuali Coeus (Touchstone required)
- Available to: PIs and other researchers, staff
- Documentation and help:
- For more information: Kuali Coeus help site
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Submit proposal-specific and annual financial conflict of interest (COI) disclosures, as required by MIT policy.
- Log in: My COI (CoeusLite) (Touchstone required)
- Available to: PIs and other researchers
- Documentation and help:
- For more information: Financial Conflicts of Interest
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Use the OPA system to complete an OPA report annually, at the direction of the Provost and Dean’s Offices.
- Log in: Outside Professional Activities (Touchstone required)
- Available to: PIs and other researchers, staff
- Documentation and help:
- For more information: Outside Professional Activities guidance
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Unified dashboard view of awards, proposals, protocols, and sponsored and non-sponsored funding, with the ability to create and approve under-recovery requests and submit TLO disclosures.
- Download the app: Research@MIT on the MIT App Store (Touchstone required)
- Available to: PIs and other researchers, staff
- Documentation and help:
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Submit award transaction requests on sponsored programs.
- Log in: OST (Touchstone required)
- Available to: Staff
- Create a request: Create Service Request (Touchstone required)
- Documentation and help: OST Guidelines for DLCI Users – December 2023 [PDF]
Getting Help
Contact ra-help@mit.edu for additional help.