Working on the Data Management and Sharing plan for an NIH grant submission. I am therefore reminded again just how ill-defined and poorly thought through the 2023 NIH data sharing policy is, and responses are getting a bit snippy.
We're not allowed to put hyperlinks in NIH grants. If only that cartoon had a DOI.
Ha! I was just about to warn you. I've caught several hyperlinks in the DMSPs from my colleagues, eg we'll use this standard or store x here, and several core facilities sent letters of support with a hyperlink. I'd be so angry if a grant got rejected because of one of those.
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So easy to miss them.
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Ha. Submitted internally and then discovered 2 embedded hyperlinks that had slipped into the bibliography 😬
I understand where NIH is coming from, but it should be somewhat easy for them to strip the hyperlinks from the documents, and really a url if it is not hyperlinked should not be a problem. Reviewers would have to intentionally copy and paste to go to a website.
I don't know if I'm being paranoid but I went in and deleted the urls in the footer/header of everyone's letter of support.
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The two hyperlinks I found were doi's added by a reference manager. MS Word (or the reference manager) made them into hyperlinks without asking permission. They propagated into the PDF and then the merged PDF generated by ASSIST.
@twitskeptic @merz queue the xkcd comic about the need for a new standard.