General
The Facility is staffed from 8:00AM until ~5PM on weekdays. Once trained, all registered users may request after-hours access. No one may gain access to the Facility using an ID not their own or use instruments for which they are not trained.
Training
All users must receive proper training before being permitted access to the Facility. Training is provided by the core director.
Scheduling
The use of instruments or training, by the UMass-Amherst community, requires an advance reservation using CORUM. If you do not have an account, please contact IALS-Cores-AR. You will be expected to make reservations and logon to instruments using your CORUM account.
Once you have reserved instrument time, please make every effort to be there and use it. If the Facility is not notified or the reservation canceled, you may be billed for any time you reserve. If you have made a reservation and wish to cancel it, please do so using CORUM as soon as you can. This is only fair to all who use the Facility. We may bill no-shows and late cancellations, at our discretion.
Usage and Rates
Instruments are used (and billed) on an hourly or daily basis. For instrument usage totaling less than an hour during a day, we charge for a full hour. For usage totaling more than an hour, we charge for the actual time used. The daily rate assumes an 8-hour period. The usage patterns of the SEC-MALS, Biacore T200, ProteomeLab XL-I, and MicroCal AutoiTC200 preclude hourly rates for these instruments; the unit rates for these instruments are half day (4 hours) or full day (8 hours) of use.
Housekeeping
Users are expected to keep the equipment and equipment areas safe, tidy, and very clean. Repeated failure to maintain this policy may result in loss of use privileges.
Until an offsite server is established, users are encouraged to remove their data from the hard disk of the computer immediately after each session. Long term storage of data on the equipment computer is not recommended as the data can be inadvertently removed or overwritten without any warning.
Facility Advisory Committee
Peter Chien
Scott Garman
Meg Stratton
Eric Strieter