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Using ARGOS

For Research Institutions. Funders. Data Stewards.

ARGOS adapts to your policies, workflows, or oversight needs.

Whether you're funding research or supporting researchers across departments, ARGOS helps you collect, collaborate, and monitor Research Management Plans with clarity.

Coordinate Support Across Departments

“We want to help researchers plan well, without overwhelming them.”

ARGOS brings your teams together—ethics, legal, IT, data stewards, and more—into a single environment.

  • Assign roles and permissions across departments
  • Allow each unit to configure templates or guidance relevant to their role
  • Streamline internal workflows for review and approval
  • Share responsibility without losing oversight

One platform to manage support, improve quality, and reduce silos.

Align DMPs with Funder Policies

“We need to ensure submitted DMPs match our requirements and can be evaluated easily.”

ARGOS lets funders define and enforce their policies while easing the burden for researchers.

  • Provide your own templates and guidance
  • Set evaluation criteria and track compliance
  • Receive DMPs structured and pre-evaluated against your requirements
  • Connect to internal reporting systems for seamless integration

Define expectations, reduce administrative burden, and gain visibility over funded research.

Improve Reporting and Research Impact

“We want better insight into research data practices and the outcomes we fund.”

With ARGOS, you get structured, actionable information—not just PDF plans.

  • Monitor planning activity and adoption across projects or institutions
  • Analyse how outputs are managed, shared, and reused
  • Demonstrate commitment to FAIR, Open Science, and responsible RDM

Better data on data = stronger policies, improved support, and greater research impact.

    Getting Started with ARGOS

    Step 1

    Sign In

    Access your organisation’s admin space using the account provided by the ARGOS team. From here, you manage templates, coordinate planning, and oversee activities across departments and teams, like Ethics, Legal, or the DPO, all within a secure environment.

    You have full control over your dedicated space while staying linked to the broader ARGOS ecosystem.

    Step 2

    Configure Your Space

    Customise your environment to match your organisation’s tools and needs.

    Your space = your rules. Tailored to support your policies, teams, and management workflows.

    Step 3

    Organise Support

    Coordinate planning and communication across units directly through ARGOS. Create roles and set permissions for your teams. Give each group the access they need to configure templates, workflows, or guidance relevant to their role.

    You control who’s involved, what they see, and how they contribute to the process.

    Step 4

    Connect to Workflows

    Manage plugins, notifications, and view preferences. Control how ARGOS integrates with your internal systems, like repositories, CRIS, storage or export tools, and customise alerts and display settings to match your processes.

    ARGOS fits into your existing workflows, not the other way around.

    Step 5

    Automate Actions

    Use APIs and secure tokens to automate key actions across your planning workflows. Trigger publishing, push metadata to connected systems, or initiate reviews based on internal rules or planning stages.

    ARGOS supports automation to reduce manual work and keep everything in sync.

    Step 6a

    Create Templates

    Templates are reusable forms used to describe specific outputs and research activities, like datasets, software, workflows, or ethical considerations. You decide the questions, guidance, field types, and what can be prefilled automatically, with input from departments like Ethics or the Data Protection Officer (DPO).

    Templates shape the content, e.g. datasets, ethics, software. They ensure Plans collect what matters to you.

    Step 6b

    Build Blueprints

    Blueprints bring your templates together, define their order, and connect planning to internal workflows like validation, review, or support (IT, legal, etc). You guide what researchers see, how they complete it, and who’s involved in research support.

    Blueprints shape the structure. They turn your planning process into clear, actionable steps across all actors.

    Step 7

    Set Evaluation Criteria

    Define how Plans should be assessed across projects and departments. Create checklists or scoring rubrics to guide reviews, ensure compliance, and track alignment with your policies.

    ARGOS helps you evaluate consistently and transparently, based on your own criteria.

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