NIH and Public Access Reporting and Resource Sharing | Research Matters!

"NIH recently issued an NIH Guide notice to clarify when a grantee should report papers as an output of their grant in their progress reports, and help reduce administrative burden for investigators. According to a recent blog post in Extramual Nexus, awardees are only required to report papers that directly arise from their award (such as authorship, consulting with authors, preparing manuscripts, and running analyses reported in the publication). In other cases, awardees have discretion in determining whether their contribution justifies claiming credit for such papers. If awardees do list a paper in section C.1 of an RPPR or a progress report publication list of a renewal application, then they are responsible for its compliance with the NIH public access policy. This notice implements a general principle about reporting papers: credit and responsibility go together. If an awardee claims credit for a paper by reporting it as a product of their award, the awardee also assumes responsibility for ensuring that the paper complies with the public access policy. Of course, if an awardee is so disconnected from a paper that they are not in a position to ensure the paper is posted to PubMed Central, that awardee should not claim credit for the paper ..."