How To Send Photos Directly to NSF's Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA)

Media Upload Form

NSF awardees can now use Research.gov to upload images and videos directly to NSF‘s Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA). This feature allows the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA) to more easily showcase research results from NSF funding.

 

How to upload an image or a video

1.     Navigate to Research.gov and log in, and click on the Submit Images/Videos link from the top navigation under the Awards & Reporting menu. This page also includes information about the permission and copyright guidelines that have to be followed to submit media to NSF.

 

 

Figure 1 – Media Upload Form

 

2.     To upload, all the mandatory fields (marked with an *) need to be filled out. The guidelines for an acceptable image or a video are also displayed based on which type of media you select to upload.

3.     After all the fields are filled in, you can click on submit to complete the upload.

 

4.     While Research.gov is processing your image/video, you will see an upload screen (Figure 2).

 

 

Figure 2 – Upload screen

 

 

5.     After the upload is completed, a “submission successfully completed” page is displayed or an error will be displayed if the submission did not occur successfully.

 

 

Figure 3 – Submission Successfully Completed Screen