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There are different ways to register on Coscine: Through a (participating) university or ORCiD.

Login to Coscine

  1. Go to the Coscine homepage at https://coscine.rwth-aachen.de/
  2. Click the Login button
  3. Select a Login method:
    • Sign in with ORCiD (recommended for external project partners)
    • Sign in with NFDI4Ing-AAI (NFDI RegApp Community AAI)
    • Sign in with DFN-AAI (Institutional account)
  4. Proceed with the instructions for the login method you have selected (see below)

Info

In order to keep the overview and to use ORCiD and the DFN-AAI method equally, you should link your accounts in your user profile Link to instructions. This way you can continue to access your projects even if you change institutes or universities.

Login with participating institution

As a member of a participating university, you have the option to log in via DFN-AAI (see figure 1). After selecting a participating organization, you will be redirected to the university's Single Sign-on page. Log in with your user credentials. After successful login, you will be redirected to the Coscine dashboard.

RWTH SingleSignOn

Figure 1 - Example - RWTH Single Sign-on

Login with ORCiD

This option is helpful for external project partners without DFN-AAI. The ORCiD (Open Researcher and Contributor iD) is a free ID for researchers with which they can uniquely link their publications, research data and other products of the research process (e.g. research software).

  • After the selection of the option Login with ORCiD you will be redirected to https://orcid.org/signin for registration (see figure 2)
  • Here you need to log in with your ORCiD credentials
  • You will then be redirected to the Coscine dashboard and are logged in

Info

When registering via ORCiD, personal data such as the e-mail address is not automatically transferred to Coscine. Please enter them in the user profile (see Personal Data).

ORCID Login

Figure 2 - ORCID Login

Login with NFDI4Ing AAI (NFDI RegApp Community AAI)

The NFDI4Ing-AAI (NFDI RegApp Community AAI) login is also available for Coscine. All organisations listed in the RegApp can log in via NFDI4Ing-AAI or RegApp.

Info

Please link your accounts in Coscine so that you do not unintentionally create multiple accounts with different projects and resources. Please read the information on linking accounts below and follow the instructions in Coscine.

If you as a UDE/TuDo/RUB employee do not receive an automatic storage space allocation of 100 GB per created project after logging in via NFDI RegApp Community AAI, please contact the FDM service at your university. Further information for FDM staff can also be found on the Identity and Access Admin documentation page.

NFDI4Ing Login

Figure 3 - NFDI4Ing AAI

Coscine allows different log-in methods (per person) to facilitate the registration and to offer partners from different universities and research institutions a common platform. To maintain clarity and to always have access to all projects and data regardless of the log-in method, the log-in methods can be linked.

Instructions

  1. Log in using your preferred login method
  2. Navigate to the user profile page
  3. Click connect for the additional login method
  4. You will be guided through the registration process of the selected method. Log in with the relevant data
  5. After you have successfully logged in using the additional method, you will be directed to the user profile
  6. The second method is now also shown there as Connected
  7. The methods are linked (see figure 3) and you now have access to all your projects and data regardless of the log-in method

Info

Please note that linking the accounts invalidates tokens that have already been created and new API tokens must be created in the user profile. The warning will be displayed in Coscine before the accounts are linked.

Data

Figure 3 - Personal data in Coscine