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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:
    • Login (All institutions)
    • Login with ORCiD (recommended for external project partners)
  4. Proceed with the instructions for the login method you have selected (see below)

Coscine Homepage

Figure 1 - Coscine Homepage

Info

Login via DFN-AAI Single Sign-On will only be listed in the description text, as this option will be deactivated in the near future. We therefore ask you to link your preferred login option in your user profile to the other login options. This not only allows you to continue accessing your projects, but also prevents you from accidentally creating different projects and resources on different accounts.

Login (All institutions)

All organisations listed in the RegApp can log in via NFDI-Login.

NFDI4Ing Login

Figure 2 - NFDI Login

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 3)
  • 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 4 - ORCID Login

Login with participating institution

As a member of a participating university, you have the option to log in via DFN-AAI (see figure 2). 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 3 - Example - RWTH Single Sign-on

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 4) 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 5 - Personal data in Coscine