Per the below National Science Foundation (NSF) announcement, investigators who have been funded by the NSF can now report six additional product types that resulted from their NSF-funded projects. The NSF provides multiple “How-to Guides” for investigators to add, update, remove, and search for research products.
Effective July 1, 2024, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) enabled six new product types in the NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR): audiovisual, data paper, educational aid and curriculum, posted content, software, and sound. The NSF-PAR search and filter feature has been updated to include all 11 supported product types. There are no changes to NSF’s Public Access policy or project reporting requirements.
Principal Investigators (PIs) and co-PIs may also need to enter a digital object identifier (DOI) depending on the product type being added to the NSF-PAR:
- Audiovisual, software, and sound products must be entered with a DOI.
- Data paper and posted content products can be entered with or without a DOI.
- Educational aid or curriculum products can only be added without a DOI.
Adding New Products to NSF Project Reports
The six new product types do not currently auto-populate from the NSF-PAR into NSF project reports in Research.gov, but PIs and co-PIs can manually add these product types to project reports. See the table below for navigation instructions in the Research.gov Project Reporting System to add the new product types.
Research.gov About Public Access Page
Visit the Research.gov About Public Access page for Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and updated how-to guides that include the six new product types. Also see the NSF Public Access Initiative page for the latest information on open science.
Questions? If you have IT system-related questions, please contact the NSF IT Service Desk at 1-800-381-1532 (7:00 AM - 9:00 PM ET; Monday - Friday except federal holidays) or via rgov@nsf.gov. Policy-related questions should be directed to policy@nsf.gov.