Effective for applications submitted for due dates on or after May 25, 2026, NIH is revising the Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Plan elements and requiring the use of the corresponding format page to aid compliance monitoring.  Please note that the format page is currently not approved and the NIH are in the process of revising existing pages/documentation to correspond to the notice.

Since the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy went into effect in 2023, NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices have evaluated over 1,100 DMS Plans and found that while the majority were acceptable either initially or after minor revisions, many included extraneous details and exceeded the recommended DMS Plan length.