User Accounts

Requesting an Account

Check with your Supervisor or Project Investigator (PI) that they are a contributor and then email its-ri-team@manchester.ac.uk. Please provide the following information:

• The name of the system you wish to access – in this case the CSF
• A brief description of why you want to use the CSF
• your University IT Username (not password)
• your library card number
• the name of your PI/supervisor/line manager

There is some limited ‘free at the point of use’ access if your are not part of a contributing group.

Visitors/Collaborators

Vistors to, and collaborators with, contributing research groups may have access to the CSF provided they have been registered by the Project Investigator/an Academic Sponsor with Human Resources at the Univeristy of Manchester. Faculty/School administration teams can advise on how to do this. Please start this process as soon as possible to ensure that everything is in place in plenty of time. The HR system feeds into the IT user database and automatically generates a University IT Username. Visitors/collaborators must complete IT Sign Up before their username is registered onto the CSF. Access to some software may not be possible, or extra conditions may apply.

Extensions to user accounts

Your University IT Username will automatically expire at the end of your course or contract. If you have a requirement to continue accessing the CSF (and other IT systems) then your Project Investigator/supervisor must arrange with their local administration team to have your HR/student record extended for an appropriate period of time. When that has been done the IT user database will be automatically updated and allow you to continue to access systems.

IT Policies and Regulations

All users must have completed IT Sign Up to be granted an account on the CSF and follow IT policies and regulations.