NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (2024) Supplement 2: Important updates to NSF’s Project Reporting System and Public Access Repository!

The U.S. 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.

In addition, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is updating its Project Reporting and Public Access Repository (PAR) systems to align with NSF’s Gold Standard Science Implementation Plan. 

The following policy updates are covered in this supplement:

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), similar to 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  

Questions? If you have IT system-related questions, please contact the NSF IT Service Desk at 1-800-381-1532 (7:00 AM - 9:00 PM ET; Monday - Friday except federal holidays) or via rgov@nsf.gov. Policy-related questions should be directed to policy@nsf.gov. Please check NSF.gov often for future updates.