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NIH enables investigators to include draft preprints in grant proposals
NIH enables investigators to include draft preprints in grant proposals
Researchers should feel free to include preprints, or draft manuscripts that haven't yet been gone through peer review, as part of their applications when they seek funding from the Bethesda, Maryland-based National Institutes of Health (NIH), the agency announced today.
sciencemag.org




Huh. I have to wonder how many people will do this, and how well it'll work out. I mean, it does mean sharing your unpublished data with your reviewers. If it's at "accepted manuscript" page, fine, but draft? Wouldn't that just be the same as including your preliminary data in the application? Might be a way to sneak more data in under the page limit, though....