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After Your Experiment
On departure
Please return your key to the Guesthouse, and your badges to the security staff at the entrance gate.
After your experiment, you can consult your NICE account to collect and transfer the data generated on the beamline during your experimental sessions.
The NICE account is closed automatically and the data archived on tape (then removed from disk) 90 days after the end of the experiment session. A notification email is sent to all participants 7 days before the closure. After the closure, data can be restored by the beamline staff.
The collection, storage and searching of the generic metadata of experiments along with the corresponding raw data is also available through the Data Portal. Only the proposers and experiment team members can access these data during an embargo period of three years after the experiment, after which time the data will be automatically made public for other users to see and use. This applies to non-proprietary research experiments only - see the ESRF Data Policy for more details and exceptions. Granting access to other collaborators during the embargo period is possible and is described on this video.
Automatically collected metadata for the ESRF experiments can be accessed here with your User Portal login. More details on this Data Portal can be found here and documentation here."
Read the ESRF Data Policy and the status of its implementation on the different beamlines
It is useful for us to have your feedback on your experiment and stay at the ESRF. To help improve our service to users, we ask each user team coming to the ESRF to complete the User Evaluation Form.
Scientists awarded public beam time are expected to
- publish their results according to the ESRF publication rules,
- register their publications in the Joint ESRF/ILL library database, or send an email with the publication reference to the library,
- send the author version to the Joint ESRF/ILL Library administrator if the publication is not Open Access,
- update their "My Publications" list in their User Portal account profile by linking with their publications in the Library database.
Please refer to the general ESRF Publications webpage.
Eligible users who receive financial support from the ESRF for travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses directly related to the experiment should send their expense claim via the travel management software SAP Concur and linked to their previously submitted travel request as soon as possible. The expense claim must be submitted within 30 days of the end of the experiment. Details on reimbursement procedure here.
If you have been allocated public beam time for an experiment at ESRF you are required to submit an experiment report within the period of 3 months following the end of your experiment and no later than than 3 days after the next proposal submission deadline, via the ESRF User Portal (SMIS).
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