Charlie,

I would not advise including a list of URLs for reviewers to look at as
part of the Appendix materials. According to the guidance published on
November 17th, 2006 you can place the URLs in Biosketch, Bibliography
and References and Progress Reports.  But don't forget to be ".... both
judicious and concise."

The "... publicly available in a free, online format..." restriction I
interpret to mean available to ANYONE, free of charge, and not dependent
on institutional subscriptions.  I cannot imagine that the NIH has
enough staff to actually police the appendix materials and check each
publication uploaded to determine if it is indeed free and publicly
available.

Cheers,

Pam

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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Charlie Hathaway
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:53 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] NIH appendix materials

Does anyone have a good way of explaining the new NIH appendix rules for
electronic applications?

In particular:

If you want a reviewer to be able to magnify a photomicrograph, are you
limited to using a compressible format (e.g. JPEG) within the research
plan?  [Thereby assuming that he/she is reviewing the proposal on
screen]

Related to above, what does the following exception mean?
"...images may not be included in the Appendix (EXCEPT when part of a
qualifying publication)."
does this mean you can submit them only as part of a manuscript OR if
they
are part of a manuscript, you may extract the figures and submit them
separately?

Does "free, online, publicly available journal link" mean free without
required subscription?  So, are most papers really "free" to the
reviewer
who is not hooked up to his institution's library?

Should/May you include a list of urls in the appendix for the papers you
want reviewers to look at?

And...

Was it ever typical for an applicant to submit copies of publications in
the Appendix of a NEW application?  i.e. to strengthen a feasibility or
preliminary data issue?

thanks

Charlie

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