Friday, December 9, 2011

Research Alert: Welcome to Research Alerts – Account set up

Welcome to Research Alerts
Please reply to: Dan Johnson (de.johnson@utoronto.ca)

The Office of the Vice President, Research is pleased to introduce a new service entitled ‘Research Alerts’. This is a communication and productivity tool developed for University of Toronto research community. We are writing now to let you know that a new account in Research Alerts has been established for you, in relation to your role as a faculty member at the University of Toronto.

Research Alerts:
• provides timely updates on funding opportunities, research-related policies and guidelines, workshops & events and more
• allows you to customize your account to receive only messages that match your interests or research role
• delivers information to you as soon as it is published!
• will shortly become the primary mechanism for staff in the Vice-President
Research portfolio to communicate with the U of T research community
Please take a moment to customize your subscription preferences by going to the Research Alerts site: https://alerts.research.utoronto.ca; and select the 'My Tags' link. This will ensure that you receive only messages that are relevant to your interests.

Over the last few weeks we have established accounts for certain designated groups within the university who have specific roles in relation to research and research administration. These include Principals and Deans, Chairs and Directors, Divisional Research Facilitators, Divisional CAOs / CFOs, and Business Officers. In addition to these groups you now have direct and immediate access to messages about upcoming funding opportunity deadlines, research & innovation-related workshops and events, research policy updates, etc. The availability of this new tool will relieve academic unit heads of the responsibility for passing on key research communications and will facilitate direct transmission of important information from the Office of the Vice President, Research to faculty members.

Should you have any technical questions or suggestions, please contact rso.research@utoronto.ca.

We hope that this new tool will be helpful to you and to the entire U of T research community.

Thank you and welcome!
- The Research Alerts Team

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