In compliance with the 2022 OSTP memo, annual and final annual project reporting for scientific data associated with peer-reviewed scholarly publications which result from NSF awards is mandatory.
NSFs Public Access Policy-- effective January 2025 ensures
- That all peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from NSF-funded research will be made freely available and publicly accessible by default in the NSF Public Access Repository, or NSF-PAR, without embargo or delay.
- That scientific data associated with peer-reviewed publications resulting from NSF awards will be made available in appropriate scientific disciplinary repositories.
- Deposited datasets must also include acknowledgement of NSF support, the award number and appropriate attribution to facilitate reporting, and will be required to be submitted via a DOI when deposited into NSF-PAR.
- That exceptions to the data-sharing requirements will be made based on legal, privacy, ethical, intellectual property and national security considerations.
- That persistent identifiers, or PIDs, and other critical metadata associated with peer-reviewed publications and data resulting from NSF-funded research will be collected and made publicly available in NSF-PAR.
Find information on the standardized format usable for annual and final progress reporting (RPPR) here.