Re: National Geographic Society Committee for Research & Exploration James L Bates 18 Mar 2003 18:57 EST
I posted the same question on the listserv early last month. The NGS award letter required the Principal Investigator to sign a Scientific Research Grant Release. The award terms created several problems with respect to our System By-laws and university policy, e.g. a signature to the agreement was required from a university employee instead of the authorized institutional representative, the agreement specified NGS ownership to copyrights and restricted distribution of film without written permission, liability, etc. I received two replies to my question and both universities reported that they determined their NGS awards were to the individual and not the university. We agreed with their interpretations and instructed our PI to accept the award as an individual if she found the terms acceptable. Jim ________________________________ James L. Bates Director, Office of Sponsored Programs 330 Thomas Boyd Hall Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803 Tel: (225) 578-3386 Fax: (225) 578-5403 email: xxxxxx@lsu.edu website: www.fas.lsu.edu/osp/ Steven Etheredge <xxxxxx@GWM.SC.E To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG DU> cc: (bcc: James L Bates/jbates/LSU) Sent by: Subject: [RESADM-L] National Geographic Society Committee Research for Research & Exploration Administration List <xxxxxx@HRINET .ORG> 03/18/2003 02:49 PM Please respond to Research Administration Discussion List Dear Colleagues: Although we have had grants from NGS previously, we just got what I believe is our 1st award from the NGS Committee for Research & Exploration. My primary concern is that while the award will be made to our institution, NGS-CRE requires the PI and project participants to sign away many of their rights to get the award, particularly in the area of non-scientiifc publishing and the area of liability release. I am looking for anyone's experience with these awards and how you handled these concerns. Thanks for your input. Steve Etheredge R. Steven Etheredge, Associate Director Sponsored Programs & Research University of South Carolina (803) 777-7093 (803) 777-4136 fax xxxxxx@gwm.sc.edu ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================