Are You Eligible?
In order to request a data allocation, the applicant must originate from a U.S. academic institution, a U.S. non-profit research organization, including:
- museums
- libraries
- research laboratories
- professional societies
- similar organizations that are directly associated with educational, research, or administrative activities
or consortia of such organizations with appropriate research and educational facilities. Please refer to the the guidelines outlined in the current NSF Grant Proposal Guide. If your institution is not a university or a 2- or 4-year college, special rules may apply.
Principal Investigator (PI) Qualifications |
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| You qualify if you are one of the following at a U.S. institution: | You do NOT qualify if you are: |
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(Please note that although a PI may not be a high school, undergraduate, or graduate student, a qualified advisor may serve in this capacity.)
These highly competitive requests are oriented towards publicly available and broadly used community collections (often but not necessary coupled with compute allocations). Collections that do not satisfy eligibility requirements and selection criteria—and therefore are not eligible for the available limited complimentary resources—may apply for storage via a recharge mechanism. For more information please contact SDSC Data Allocations directly: datacentral-allocations@sdsc.edu
