For those publications that do not present research results such as review
articles, we add a note with the citation saying PMCID not applicable and
explain why.

Sven

Sven Davisson, CRA
Associate Director, Sponsored Programs

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On 10/21/11 11:44 AM, "Burchell valldejuli" <xxxxxx@YALE.EDU>
wrote:

> 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 probab!
>  ly 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 don¹t 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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