Individual Fellowship Application Guide - UCLA School of Nursing

PHS SF424 (R&R) Individual Fellowship Application Guideany review or evaluation of grantee performance conducted or caused to be conducted by the DHHS.Generally not available for release to the public are: competing grant progress reports (new,resubmission, renewal, and revisions) for which awards have not been made; evaluative portions of sitevisit reports; and summary statements of findings and recommendations of review groups. Trade secretsand commercial, financial, or otherwise proprietary information may be withheld from disclosure.Information, which, if disclosed, would be a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, may alsobe withheld from disclosure. Although the grantee institution and the PD/PI will be consulted about anysuch release, the PHS will make the final determination. If a requested document contains bothdisclosable and nondisclosable information, the nondisclosable information will be deleted and thebalance of the document will be released.4.5 Access to Research DataAs required by regulation 45 CFR 74.36, grantees that are institutions of higher education, hospitals, ornon-profit organizations must release “research data” first produced in a project supported in whole or inpart with Federal funds if they are cited publicly and officially by a Federal agency in support of an actionthat has the force and effect of law (i.e., regulations and administrative orders). The term “research data”is defined as the recorded factual material commonly accepted in the scientific community as necessary tovalidate research findings. It does not include preliminary analyses; drafts of scientific papers; plans forfuture research; peer reviews; communications with colleagues; physical objects (e.g., laboratory samples,audio or video tapes); trade secrets; commercial information; materials necessary to be held confidentialby a researcher until publication in a peer-reviewed journal; information that is protected under the law(e.g., intellectual property); personnel and medical files and similar files, the disclosure of which wouldconstitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; or information that could be used to identify aparticular person in a research study.This requirement to release research data does not apply to commercial organizations or to research dataproduced by state or local governments. However, if a state or local governmental grantee contracts withan educational institution, hospital or non-profit organization, and the contract results in covered researchdata, those data are subject to these disclosure requirements. Seehttp://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/data_sharing/index.htm.Part III: Policies, Assurances, Definitions, and Other InformationIII-36