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NSF Updates Project Reporting & Public Access Systems
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is releasing a Policy Notice Supplement 2, which provides updates to the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG), version 24-1. The PAPPG updates provided in this Policy Notice supersede the relevant financial assistance policies provided in the 24-1 version of the PAPPG.
Changes to the NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR) include:
Removing the 12-month publication embargo from all Portable Document Format (PDF) product types
Enabling input of Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAM) and Version of Record (VoR)
Making machine-readable versions of publications in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format available for download
Enabling PAR Identifiers (IDs) to behave as Persistent Identifiers (PID), like the Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
Changes to Research.gov Project Reports include:
Auto-populating PAR IDs as Persistent ID links from NSF-PAR into Project Reports for journal articles, conference papers, datasets, and workshop reports
Auto-populating Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) and Version of Record (VOR) metadata from NSF-PAR into Project Reports for journal articles, conference papers, and workshop reports
Prohibiting direct dataset entry into project reports within Research.gov
These updates supersede relevant sections of PAPPG 24-1.The library has information for Sponsor Public Access Policies and NSF Data Management. Additionally UCSF is seeking clarification on the implementation date of January 22, 2026, if new requirements applies to all current awards or new and continuing awards.