Reporting Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Plan Activities in the Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced planned changes to the RPPR instructions to address the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy. Per NIH NOT-OD-24-123: “Upon receiving approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), NIH will issue new DMS RPPR questions that align with the NIH Final Policy on Data Management and Sharing, to include updates on the status of data sharing, repositories and unique identifiers for data that have been shared.”