Reporting Preprints and Other Interim Research Products
From NIH Notice Number: NOT-OD-17-050
Key Dates
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Effective date for application: Applications submitted for the May 25, 2017 due date and thereafter
Effective date Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR): RPPRs submitted on or after May 25, 2017
Related Announcements
NOT-OD-17-006- Request for Information (RFI): Including Preprints and Interim Research Products in NIH Applications and Reports
Purpose
The NIH encourages investigators to use interim research products, such as preprints, to speed the dissemination and enhance the rigor of their work. This notice clarifies reporting instructions to allow investigators to cite their interim research products and claim them as products of NIH funding.
Citing interim research products in applications, proposals and reports
Interim research products can be cited anywhere other research products are cited. These sections include the following:
- R&R Other Project Information Form, Bibliography & References Cited
- R&R Senior/Key Person Profile (Expanded) Form, Biographical Sketch
- PHS 398 Research Plan, Progress Report Publication List
- PHS 398 Career Development Award Supplemental Form, Progress Report Publication List
- PHS Fellowship Supplemental Form, Progress Report Publication List
- RPPR, section C - Products
To cite the product, applicants and awardees must include the Digital Object Identifier and the Object type (e.g. preprint, protocol) in the citation. Also list any information about the document version (e.g. most recent date modified), and if relevant, the date the product was cited.
Example: Bar DZ, Atkatsh K, Tavarez U, Erdos MR, Gruenbaum Y, Collins FS. Biotinylation by antibody recognition- A novel method for proximity labeling. BioRxiv 069187 [Preprint]. August 11, 2016 [cited 2017 Jan 12]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1101/069187.
These requirements help reviewers understand that the product is public, interim, and identify the specific version is being referenced.
Note: Applicants are responsible for providing the information necessary to review a section of an application within the page limits of that section.
More information can be found at https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-17-050.html