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Account Requirements

Principal Investigator (PI)

The lead researcher responsible for the design, execution, and overall management of a Research Project. This role is central to ensuring the scientific integrity, regulatory compliance, and ethical conduct of the study. 

Non-Principal Investigator (Non-PI)

Cannot create an account directly. You must receive an invitation from a registered PI to collaborate on a project.

Account Capabilities

Principal Investigator (PI)

  • Create account on the platform
  • Select access & contribution permissions
  • Invite team members to projects

Non-Principal Investigator (Non-PI)

  • Can contribute and/or access data in project they’ve been invited to

How to create an account

Click Request Account, fill the form with your information and agree to the Terms of Use of the platform.

Contributing Data

Data types that can be contributed​

Consented and coded data​

Data contributed with informed consent to research participation and ethics approval, an ethics waiver of informed consent requirement, or other legal authorization. All direct identifiers (e.g., names, social insurance numbers) removed and replaced with a unique code. Coded data may still be considered identifiable and are subject to applicable privacy and data protection requirements.

De-identified Data

Data where both direct and indirect identifiers are transformed to reduce re-identification risk to a very low level, meeting recognized ethical and legal standards.

Step-By-Step

Principal Investigator (PI)

  • Create a New Project
  • Upload Data
  • Select Access Tier and Request Release
  • Data are Released

Non-Principal Investigator (Non-PI)

  • Receive an Invitation From Project PI to Join Their Project
  • Accept Invitation (Via Email) to Finalize Account Creation
  • You May Now Upload Data

Data Contribution Permissions: As a Principal Investigator (PI), you can contribute data to ARCHIMEDES by establishing a Data Contribution Agreement (DCA). This agreement must only be established once per institution and will provide contribution permissions to all PIs from your institution who create an account moving forward. A DCA can be initiated when creating an account or by requesting additional permissions within an existing account. You will be asked to provide contact information for your institution’s legal signing authority to initiate this process.

Project Creation: A PI can create a project within ARCHIMEDES and begin contributing data when Data Contribution Permissions have been granted. Data can be contributed either from studies that have already been completed (bulk deposit of a complete dataset) or from studies for which you will be collecting data and uploading to ARCHIMEDES on an ongoing basis. In either case, the PI must submit a unique Data Contribution Form (DCF) for each project they would like to add. PIs can then invite other team members (research assistants, trainees, other PIs, etc.) to collaborate on specific
projects.

We recommend that your institution also establishes an Institutional Data Access Agreement (I-DAA) along with its DCA. For more information on the I-DAA, please refer to Data Access.

Accessing Data

No Account Required

Open Data

  • Agree to the Terms of Use
  • Access Open data with the Advanced Data Explorer

PI Account Required

Controlled Data

  • Create Your Account
  • Complete Data Access Request (DAR), and Agree to Data Access Terms of Use
  • Once DAC and DACO Approve DAR, You May Access Controlled Data on the Advanced Data Explorer
Open Data: Anyone can access Open Data without needing to create an account or establish any contract or agreement. Simply select Access Data to view our open data repository.

Controlled Data: As a Principal Investigator (PI) you can access controlled data by creating an ARCHIMEDES account and submitting a Data Access Request (DAR). Non PIs must receive an invitation from their PI to access a controlled dataset(s). Each DAR requires one of the following:

  1. That a user is covered by an existing Institutional Data Access Agreement (I-DAA). This agreement must:
    • Be established once per institution
    • Will provide controlled access to all Principal Investigators (PIs) from your institution for any and all DARs they submit moving forward.
    An I-DAA can be initiated when creating an account or by requesting additional permissions within an existing account. You will be asked to provide contact information for your institution’s legal signing authority to initiate this process.
    We recommend that your institution also establishes a Data Contribution Agreement (DCA) along with its I-DAA. For more information on the DCA, please refer to Data Contribution.

    2. OR

  2. That a user submits a single-use Data Access Agreement (DAA) along with each individual DAR. A DAA is a simple “single-shot” agreement that is created directly by a Principal Investigator (PI) and governs access for a single data request. These must be replicated for each DAR. This agreement only needs to be submitted along with a DAR if your institution does NOT already have an I-DAA in place.

Our Partners and Funders

ARCHIMEDES collaborates with leading institutions to advance health research. 
Our partners provide expertise, data, and tools to drive innovation and accelerate scientific discovery.

This platform is funded by Canada First Research Excellence Fund for the Brain-Heart Interconnectome (CFREF-2022-00007).