RAP FAQs

What is the Research Administration Portal (RAP)?

The RAP will allow the UO to adopt more efficient research administration workflows that will help researchers improve their research capacity and provide a more transparent and seamless workflow. The system will offer a single dashboard from which investigators will be able to effectively manage a range of research compliance activities including submissions that cover human subjects research, conflict of interest, grant submissions, effort reporting, and IACUC submissions.

The new IACUC tool is part of the phased implementation of the Research Administration Portal (RAP), a suite of integrated tools that will support researchers and staff as they work through compliance and administration activities. The RAP IACUC tool is used by animal researchers and teams to submit animal use protocols, amendments, annual and triennial reviews, create and manage team procedures, research teams, and more.

Some features the new tool will offer are:
- Improved visibility as to where your protocol is in the review process. When you log in, you will easily see if your protocol is in the pre-review state, being reviewed by the IACUC, or in post-review.
- Integration with third-party training platforms, such as CITI and AALAS, for easy management of training records and requirements.
- Infrastructure for a library of standard substances and procedures that supports IACUC review, versioning, and promoting research lab procedures to standard procedures.
- A comprehensive view of research lab teams that includes team members, trainings, substances, procedures, and protocols.

We will keep the community informed on the progress of this project with periodic communications. If you would like to receive more frequent updates about this effort, please subscribe to the following email list: rap-iacuc-module@lists.uoregon.edu (subscribe to the list). Project updates are sent monthly.
Monthly updates are also added to our Research Administration Portal (RAP) webpage.