NOTICE: Changes may have been made in the Policy Notice Supplements 1 and/or 2. Refer to those notices first for the most up to date requirements.

• NSF will not restrict or take part of income earned from copyrighted material except as necessary to comply with requirements of government-wide policy or international agreement
• In exceptional circumstances NSF may restrict or eliminate a recipients control of NSF supported copyrighted material
• NSF copyrighted material should be
  • Deposited in NSFs public access repository
  • Available for download, reading, and analysis within 12 months of publication (updated to immediately in supplemental policy notice 2)
  • Possess a minimum set of machine-readable metadata elements as described in the public access policy
  • Reported in annual and final reports with a persistent identifier
• Final printed version or final peer reviewed manuscript are both acceptable for deposit

NOTICE: Changes may have been made in the Policy Notice Supplements 1 and/or 2. Refer to those notices first for the most up to date requirements.

• Proposal budget may request funds for documenting, preparing, publishing, or otherwise making available to others the findings and products of the work conducted under the award

NOTICE: Changes may have been made in the Policy Notice Supplements 1 and/or 2. Refer to those notices first for the most up to date requirements.

• Investigators are expected to:
  • Promptly prepare and submit for publication, all significant findings from work conducted under NSF awards.
  • Share with other researchers the primary data, samples, physical collections, and other supporting materials created or gathered throughout the course of work under NSF awards.
  • Share software and inventions created under the award or make them widely available and usable.
• NSF:
  • Allows recipients to retain principal legal rights to intellectual property developed under NSF awards to provide incentives for development and dissemination.
    • These incentives do not reduce the responsibility to make results, data, and collections available to other researchers.
  • Program management will implement these policies for dissemination and sharing of research results.
  • Awards contain an article implementing dissemination and sharing of research results.

NOTICE: Changes may have been made in the Policy Notice Supplements 1 and/or 2. Refer to those notices first for the most up to date requirements.

• Significant findings from NSF research should be promptly submitted for publication. Copyrighted material published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and papers must comply with NSF’s Public Access Policy.
• Cost of documenting, preparing, publishing, disseminating, and sharing research findings and supporting material are allowable charges.
• Significant research findings are the responsibility of the investigators unless otherwise provided in the award, preparation, content, editing, identification of authorship and submission for publication.
• Recipient obligations:
  • Acknowledgment of support, unless otherwise provided in the award:
    • In any publication using the following language
      • “This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. (NSF award number)."
    • Orally during all news media interviews such as radio, television, and news magazines.
  • Include disclaimer: “The recipient is responsible for assuring that every publication of material (including World Wide Web pages) based on or developed under an NSF award, except scientific articles or papers appearing in scientific, technical, or professional journals, contains the following disclaimer:
    • Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation."
  • Copies of every publication of material based on or developed under the award are provided to the cognizant NSF Program Officer.
  • Compliance with the NSF Public Access Policy.
  • Note of their obligations on copyrights and the responsibility to disseminate and share research results.

icon    PAPPG effective May 20, 2024

icon    PAPPG May 20, 2024 Summary of Changes (changes from the previous 2023 PAPPG)

icon     Policy Notice Supplement 1

icon    Policy Notice Supplement 2