ACCESS Staff Newsletter – April 2024


Inside ACCESS is a monthly newsletter produced for all ACCESS program staff. It contains program-wide announcements and updates from each of the program's service areas. Questions/comments? Email us at communications@access-ci.org.

ACO Updates


Follow ACCESS on Social Media


ACCESS shares all kinds of updates – about the program as well as affiliated groups' information – throughout our social media channels. Give us a follow at: LinkedIn: accessforci; Facebook: @ACCESSforCI; X (Twitter): @ACCESSforCI; and YouTube: @ACCESSforCI.


Operations Updates


New Capability to Publish Integration News


ACCESS Operations introduces a new Integration News Publishing capability that enables ACCESS projects to announce changes in resource integration, operations processes, and associated software technologies to ACCESS resource providers, including compute / storage / cloud, online service, science gateway, and other ACCESS software providers. Learn more here.


Support Updates


Reminder: Check Out Our Affinity Groups


Affinity Groups enable people to connect around shared interests and anyone can create one!


Affinity Groups can:


  • Provide an easy way to launch a new community 
  • Give visibility and enable connections for an existing community
  • Offer a space for discussion of a current topic of interest between communities


The support team has unveiled a new feature that provides Affinity Groups with an optional email list for members to communicate directly with each other, enabling easy communication around shared interests. Affinity Groups can provide a community nexus, enabling members to publish and collect important documentation, training, events and announcements. In addition to the member's email list, coordinators can broadcast emails to members of the group. ACCESS Support invites you to explore our Affinity Groups and let us know if there is a new group that would be helpful for your community.


ACCESS is supported by the National Science Foundation.