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Suite Outage Scheduled for January 2022 Minor Update (impacting OAIR, ESTR-IRB, Agreements-DUA, and Data Safety)

December 10, 2021

The research administration and compliance suite of applications, including OAIR, ESTR-IRB, Agreements-DUA, and Data Safety will be unavailable from Thursday, January 13 at 7:00pm ET until Friday, January 14 at 1:00am ET to complete minor updates. Please...

Suite Outage Scheduled for November 2021 Upgrade (impacting OAIR, ESTR-IRB, Agreements-DUA, and Data Safety)

October 19, 2021

The research administration and compliance suite of applications, including OAIR, ESTR-IRB, Agreements-DUA, and Data Safety will be unavailable from Friday, November 5 at 7:00pm ET to Monday, November 8 at 7:00am ET to complete a major upgrade, with...

Suite Outage Scheduled Friday, May 7 at 7:00pm ET to Saturday, May 8 at 7:00am ET, Impacting OAIR, ESTR-IRB, Agreements-DUA, and Data Safety

April 15, 2021

The research administration and compliance suite of applications, including OAIR, ESTR-IRB, Agreements-DUA, and Data Safety will be unavailable from Friday, May 7 at 7:00pm ET until Saturday, May 8 at 7:00am ET to complete a minor upgrade, with...

Suite Outage Scheduled for Friday, February 26 from 6:00pm ET – 11:30pm ET, Impacting OAIR, ESTR-IRB, Agreements-DUA, and Data Safety

February 19, 2021

Suite Outage Scheduled for Friday, February 26 from 6:00pm ET – 11:30pm ET, impacting OAIR, ESTR-IRB, Agreements-DUA, and Data Safety The research administration and compliance suite of applications, including OAIR, ESTR-IRB, Agreements-DUA, and Data...

Upcoming Outages to Support Launch of Outside Activities and Interest Reporting (OAIR): January 14 and January 22-23

January 08, 2021

The research administration and compliance team is excited to announce the addition of a new Outside Activities and Interest Reporting (OAIR) application to the suite. OAIR consolidates financial conflict of interest (fCOI) and outside activities...

ESTR-IRB Unscheduled Maintenance Outage - Dec 23 6:00pm ET - Dec 24 9:00am ET

December 23, 2020

ESTR-IRB will be unavailable during unscheduled maintenance on Wednesday, December 23 from 6:00pm ET until 9:00am ET on Thursday, December 24 (note that this is an extension of a prior outage notification). Please contact estrhelp@harvard.edu with any...

ESTR-IRB Upgrade: Friday, October 23 at 5:00 PM until Monday, October 26 at 5:00 AM

October 01, 2020

The ESTR support team announces its fall release for October 23. This configuration release brings minor enhancements to support the review process in an increasingly integrated environment. ESTR-IRB will be unavailable from Friday, October 23 at 5:00 PM...

HRDSP Partial Roll-out May 15 & ESTR-IRB Upgrade May 29-June 1

May 12, 2020

HRDSP Partial Roll-out-May 15 Starting May 15 th 2020, the University will be implementing a partial rollout of the updated Research Data Security Policy (HRDSP) Guidance. Please visit the Harvard Research Data Management website for additional...

ESTR Upgrade December 5

November 08, 2019

The ESTR support team announces its December release. This configuration release brings exciting improvements to Harvard’s increasingly integrated research administration systems. ESTR will be unavailable on Thursday, December 5 from 6:00-11:00 pm ET to...

ESTR Upgrade September 27

September 11, 2019

The ESTR support team is excited to announce the details of the fall configuration release. The release includes a number of enhancements and fixes to better support the user community. ESTR was unavailable from Friday, Sep tember 27 at 6:00 pm ET to...

ESTR System Changes Coming Soon!

August 09, 2019

A configuration release is planned for this fall. Please visit this page to view information about the timing of the changes and details regarding what is included in the release, as updates are available. With this release, Harvard plans to add...

ESTR Brief Outages Scheduled 4/25 & 5/13

April 25, 2019

ESTR was unavailable for a few minutes just after 7pm ET on Thursday, April 25 and then again just after 6:30pm ET on Monday, May 13. If you were logged into the system at the time of outage, you were automatically logged out and had to log back in to...