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If you or your lab uses ICER, I would like to ask you to help us out and update your research information (publications and grants) in the Beta version of the new ICER User Database called "ColdFront" (See the link and detailed instructions below).
ColdFront is an open-source resource and allocation management system developed at the University of Buffalo, designed to provide a central portal for administration, reporting, and measuring scientific impact of cyberinfrastructure resources.
The short-term goal is to use ColdFront to gather publication and grant information to provide an estimation of ICER’s return on investment for the university. Our long-term goal is to integrate ColdFront’s capabilities into our systems to give PIs better control to manage and keep track of ICER resources.
Please provide feedback on the process by sending emails to Dirk Colbry (colbrydi@msu.edu). We would like all Principal Investigators to go through this exercise, so we want it to be as painless as possible while also giving us the information that is needed.
ColdFront Beta Testing Instructions
Make sure you log-in via "OpenID Connect" button (using your MSU login/password) using the following website:
We would like you to try out the following:
1. Update your profile to include your ORCID ID.
2. Either create a new project or update one of the existing projects.
3. If desired, authorize a team member to become a "project manager" to help with the next steps.
4. Import from ORCID or manually add all publications you and your team have that used ICER resources.
5. Import from ORCID or manually add all grants you and your team have received that have used ICER resources.
Email us with feedback on the process.
The following video is intended to help walk you through the steps: