ISIS (or Interconnector Shippers Information System) is the software application used by Interconnector Shippers to manage the transportation of gas through the pipeline.

If you require ISIS access as an NTS Shipper only, services are now available via the Internet. To use full ISIS facilities as an IUK Shipper, a Wide Area Network Connection is recommended to ensure availability - Internet access is also available. Please contact us for details.

TWAIN and ISIS are industry standard scanner drivers. They allow you to seamlessly connect your scanner to hundreds of scanning applications. Please go to Drivers Downloads for a complete list of drivers and supported platforms.

Students can access ISIS from the myUFL Menu. Click on the orange arrow next to UF Applications/Services and then click on ISIS.

investigator entering ISIS for the first time will enter basic information just once – data such as name, mailing address, telephone number, names of laboratory workers, and laboratory locations. ISIS then asks the investigator a series of yes/no questions such as "Do you use or store hazardous chemicals," "Do you use radioactive materials," "Do you use biological agents at Biosafety Levels 1, 2, or 3," or "Do you use recombinant DNA molecules.

ISIS will provide resources such as help screens and roll-over definitions within the application. Links are embedded in ISIS to all of the customary Fact Sheets that investigators are familiar with from the old Safety Plan program. ISIS also will include links to ORS, NU, regulatory agency, and external web pages. ISIS will work in concert with, and supplement, the ORS web pages.

Depending on the work in a particular laboratory, ISIS will create a custom subset of the following forms and reports: Exposure Control Plan for human blood, blood products, and other potentially infectious human materials, Laboratory Safety Profile (a new report comprising some or all of the data in the animal use, compressed gases, equipment alarms, hazardous materials shipping or receiving, controlled substances, personal protective equipment, hazardous chemicals, biosafety level, and physica.

It depends on the size and complexity of your laboratory activities. Data entry for a small life sciences laboratory with one or two laboratory workers that do not use radioactive materials may take an hour or less. During testing, individuals who worked their way through the complete program found that it took several hours. This is comparable to the time it would take to do all of the work on paper.

For security reasons, accessing ISIS from off-campus requires use of a Virtual Private Network (VPN). To learn more about using VPN, please see NUIT's VPN information page.

If you have questions about policies, expectations, applicability, navigation, safety, and so forth, you may click on a link on each ISIS screen that will present several options for getting help. It is important to note that ORS is staffed only during regular business hours and that many ORS program managers and specialists spend a great deal of time in the field. ORS specialists will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.

IF YOU HAVE NEVER LOGGED INTO ISIS BEFORE (or never visited ISIS from CougarNet) your password should be your birthdate in the format DDMMYY. For instance, if your birthday is October 23, 1986, your initial password is set to 231086 when your account was created. If your birthdate in this format does not work and you have never logged into ISIS and set a security question, this procedure will not work for you. You will need to contact the Help Desk in the CCT building (706) 569-3044.

New instructors must be entered into IADS before their names can be added to the course in the ISIS database. Contact the human resource person in your department to initiate the process of adding them into IADS.

Phase I will populate the basic data set and create the first set of virtual forms and reports for an investigator. During Phase I roll out, investigators will continue to print, sign, and send a limited number of paper forms to ORS for internal or committee review. Phase II, which is currently under development, will automate committee review processes, allowing the electronic exchange of information between investigators, ORS, and the safety committees.

Investigators must complete data entry within 1 month of the start date for their cohort. ORS will monitor entries. At the end of the first week ISIS will send a reminder to investigators who have not begun the process. At the end of the second week ORS will contact investigators who have not begun the process. At the end of 30 days, ORS will generate a report listing the investigators who did not complete the process. The report will be forwarded to the Vice President for Research for action.

ISIS is not like a Power Point presentation or many web applications. It has been developed to meet specific compliance and information management requirements. There are 3 basic reasons for the amount of text. First, ISIS is intended to be an educational tool as well as a compliance tool. Second, some sections include text that must appear on registrations and applications. Third, in some sections PIs must agree to follow basic protocols and to add laboratory-specific protocols.

Because only the PI or the PI's safety designate can change information in ISIS, selections may be "grayed out" during lab worker review to prevent them from changing the data that was entered by the PI or the safety designate.