RESOURCE ENTITLEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (REMS)

Reproduction of Terena Network Conference Full paper from 2013 The Resource Entitlement Management System (REMS) is an electronic tool that manages access rights to research resources, such as research datasets. A researcher user his/her federated identity to log in to REMS, fills in and submits a data access application and commits to the resource’s licence terms. The system circulates the application to the resource owner or his/her representative(s), and provides reporting functionalities on the applications and access rights. This paper introduces different aspects to manage access to research data and the requirements for the REMS system. The REMS has been piloted with the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA), a service of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and with a complex data access committee of the Nordic Control Database (NCDB). Although originally developed for the life sciences in the ELIXIR project, the REMS system aims at being a discipline independent tool for access rights management.