Effective Jan. 25, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-mandated changes to documentation procedures will impact UNMC investigators and researchers. The changes are substantial in order to promote transparency and full disclosure of all resources — both domestic and foreign — supporting an individual’s research endeavors.
On that date, all "Other Support" documents provided to Sponsored Programs Administration for submission to the NIH must be generated from a new "Other Support" function within the RSS software. Ultimately, each individual investigator will need to sign a legal attestation that the document is accurate and complete, signing electronically within the RSS software.
See NIH’s "Other Support" changes
Testing and training (see sidebar info Upcoming trainings)
The transition to "Other Support" documentation from the new RSS functionality requires confirming and correcting the data pulled from the Sponsored Programs Administration database about research support, adding in the elements required by NIH (e.g., foreign collaborators or collaborations, voluntary appointments at foreign institutions) and reporting committed effort accurately across all sources of support. Thus, it is important that a test "Other Support" document be generated for each investigator to allow time to resolve any concerns.
SPA’s test-and-train approach to support the UNMC research community during this transition will impact Just in Time (JITs) submissions, as well as all continuing review (RPPRs) submissions to the NIH.
All staff involved in generating "Other Support" documents (and/or the principal investigators or collaborators who will be signing an "Other Support" document) should attend one of the drop-in training sessions that SPA is holding this month. At each session, SPA representatives will demonstrate the new RSS functionality and answer questions.
See SPA’s "Other Support" How-To page