One of our faculty has posed the below question about 'gray zone' in what may be considered "Directly" funded. Please read the below and let me know what you think..

"We have encountered a new wrinkle in the pubmed compliance issue that needs some institutional guidance. That is, when PIs submit their progress reports, they are obligated to include publications directly supported by the work (that is obvious).  However, the common practice of PIs has been to also include related publications, many of which are in the grey zone as to whether or not one would consider the publication supported by NIH.  As an example, if I write a review article on the topic of the NIH grant, and my time is supported by the grant, I would normally include that in my progress report even though it is not directly supported.  Similarly, if a grant supports data collection for a large study, and then a grad student of mine adds on a small questionnaire and does an ancillary project (not really related to the grant, but could not have been done without having the population set up by the grant), her work is not directly supported by the grant but I would probably list her publication in my progress report.  Where this has now become an issue is that we are aware that pubs listed on progress reports are now being linked to those grants by National Library of Medicine, apparently even bypassing the PI.  So, the PI may have papers that appear that they have to be in pubmed to be compliant, when in fact that is not the case.

So, we need clarity on this as it affects how our PIs should be instructed to do progress reports.  I think my preference would be to include 2 sections of pubs:  those directly supported by NIH, and those not directly supported by NIH but related to the grant (but we don’t know if NIH likes this approach or not).

CEntral G&C had to assist with a prior situation we had where some publications on a progress report were linked but really should not have been linked (the institution had to step in to undo that).

We look forward to some  guidance to try to head off more of these types of situations

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