Researchers benefit from ACCESS wide software discovery when they are exploring whether to request their first ACCESS allocation, when they are requesting renewals, and when they are deciding which resources to use their allocations on.

ACCESS provides researchers with multiple tools to enable software discovery and enhance software use so that they can focus on doing science and spend less time adapting their workloads to resources. These tools are the Software Documentation Service "SDS" at https://sds.access-ci.org/, the ACCESS Resource Advisor "ARA" at https://ara.access-ci.org/, the ACCESS Q&A Chat tool, and the Resource Catalog at https://allocations.access-ci.org/resources.

ACCESS offers resource providers "RPs" with the Information Publishing Framework "IPF" tool at https://github.com/access-ci-org/ipf/ for automated software module publishing to ACCESS, which can then be used by the above tools. IPF enables RPs control which software modules to publish.

ACCESS is launching a campaign to achieve software module publishing by all ACCESS Allocate Compute resources. To help us reach this goal ACCESS Operations is offering to install, operate, maintain, and monitor the IPF tool from an un-privileged ACCESS staff account on all ACCESS allocated compute resources. RPs that are not publishing will be contacted shortly with this offer. RPs that want to install and operation the IPF tool on their own will continue to be able to do so.