Funding

Discipline(s): All

Allowable Costs

Reasonable, allowable DMS costs may be included in NIH budget requests for:

• Curating data
• Developing supporting documentation
• Formatting data according to accepted community standards, or for transmission to and storage at a selected repository for long-term preservation and access
• De-identifying data
• Preparing metadata to foster discoverability, interpretation, and reuse
• Local data management considerations, such as unique and specialized information infrastructure necessary to provide local management and preservation (for example, before deposit into an established repository).
• Preserving and sharing data through established repositories, such as data deposit fees.
  • If the Data Management & Sharing (DMS) plan proposes deposition to multiple repositories, costs associated with each proposed repository may be included.

Note that all allowable costs submitted in budget requests must be incurred during the performance period, even for scientific data and metadata preserved and shared beyond the award period. 

For instance, if a DMS plan proposes preserving and sharing scientific data for 10 years in an established repository with a deposition fee, the cost for the entire 10-year period must be paid before the end of the period of performance.

Unallowable Costs

• Budget requests must NOT include:
  • Infrastructure costs that are included in institutional overhead (for instance, Facilities and Administrative costs) 
  • Costs associated with the routine conduct of research, including costs associated with collecting or gaining access to research data. 
  • Costs that are double charged or inconsistently charged as both direct and indirect costs 

For more information about developing budgets for grant applications, check out the How to Apply – Application Guide.