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Grant Funding Organizations Added to PubMed: ASPR, NASA, NIST

Tybaert S. Grant Funding Organizations Added to PubMed: ASPR, NASA, NIST. NLM Tech Bull. 2015 Sep-Oct;(406):e6.

October 19, 2015 [posted]

This fall the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is adding more US Government agencies that will be participating in the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS) to meet their Public Access requirement. Both extramural and intramural authors from these agencies will be depositing manuscripts into PMC; the article’s funding indication will appear in PubMed citations in the Grant Number [gr] field.

The new agencies are:

Institute Acronym Full Institute/Organization Name To Search PubMed
ASPR Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response aspr [gr]
Intramural ASPR Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response intramural aspr [gr]
NASA  National Aeronautics and Space Administration nasa [gr]
Intramural NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration intramural nasa [gr]
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology nist [gr]
Intramural NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology intramural nist [gr]

NOTE: ASPR is part of the Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services. NIST is part of the Department of Commerce.

Please refer to the NLM Web resource page, Grant Number Information Found in the GR Field in MEDLINE/PubMed, for explanations for grant number and agency acronyms.