NIH draft plan for PIDs and metadata still open for comment

posted on Feb 5, 2025
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As previously reported, when NIH issued its final public access policy, it also issued a new draft Plan on Metadata and Persistent Identifiers (PIDs), with the goal to ‘enable researchers, clinicians, students and the public to rapidly locate, contextualise and analyse the results of NIH-supported research’. Such plans were requested from each agency as the second part of the OSTP Nelson memo.

The NIH has asked for public comments through 21 February. More information on the plan and how to provide comments can be found here. This plan is likely unaffected by the executive order regarding regulations.

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