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Running experiments in modern computer architecture simulators can be a difficult and error-prone endeavor. Users must track many configurations, components and outputs between simulation runs. The gem5 simulator is no exception to this, requiring researchers to gather, organize, and create a significant number of components for a single simulation. In this paper, we present the GEM5ART framework, a tool to aid gem5 users in better structuring and running architecture simulations, and GEM5 RESOURCES, a suite of resources with known compatibility with the simulator. These new additions to the gem5 project make full system simulation easier, allowing researchers to concentrate more so on their architectural innovations over setting up the simulation framework. The GEM5ART framework carefully logs the resources used in a gem5 simulation and places the results obtained within a database, thus enabling simple reproduction of experiments. The pre-built resources allow researchers to jump straight into running simulations rather than having to spend valuable time creating them. GEM5ART has been released with a permissive, open source license allowing the broader computer architecture community to contribute as workloads and workflows evolve. An archive of the data, an related materials, presented in this paper can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14176802