For DOE centers
Half your annual report is public now.
Since 2025 the annual task in PAMS collects the internal DOE report and a public one at the same time, with E-Link wired into it. Two audiences, one set of underlying records. SimplyScholar keeps those records straight all year, so when the task opens you are checking work that is already done.
Energy Frontier Research Centers under Basic Energy Sciences. We run one today.
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Publications
EFRC only, primary, or secondary.
BES has wanted three acknowledgement categories since 2021, and almost nobody tracks which is which until the report is due. By then the author has moved on and the acknowledgement is fixed in a published paper.
- Caught while it still matters
- Papers arrive from CrossRef as they publish, matched to your researchers. Each is checked for the acknowledgement and classified. The ones that are wrong or missing surface immediately, while a correction is still just a conversation with the author.
- Deposit status travels with the record
- Whether a paper has gone to OSTI, and whether it is showing on DOE PAGES, sits on the publication record itself, where anyone looking at the paper can see it. The gap between published and deposited is where public-access compliance quietly fails.
- Ready for E-Link
- Since E-Link was integrated with PAMS, the scientific and technical information side of the annual task pulls from the same records. Keeping them clean during the year is what turns that integration into time saved.
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The annual task
One set of records, two audiences.
The internal DOE progress report and the public progress report are collected together, but they are two different documents. One goes to your program manager, and the other goes on the web.
- The internal report
- Thrust-level progress, personnel and effort, publications with their acknowledgement category, and the collaborations that produced something. Drafted from the records themselves, without a round of emails to thrust leads.
- The public report
- Written for people outside the field, and now properly public. The same underlying data rendered for a different reader, which makes it a writing job and nothing more.
Your public-facing center site is generated from those same records, so what a visitor reads and what your program manager reads never drift apart.
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The award cycle
Renewal asks what the whole award produced.
An EFRC runs on a four-year clock and then competes again. The centers that renew comfortably are the ones that can show the full arc from records, without spending the last six months rebuilding it.
- Cumulative, not annual
- Publications, people, students trained, and collaborations across the whole award, queryable in one place, without stitching four progress reports together.
- Early-career outcomes
- Where the postdocs and students went afterwards. The hardest thing to reconstruct at renewal, and the easiest to capture as it happens.
- Nothing lost at handover
- Coordinators change over a four-year award. The record should not depend on which one is currently in post.
Bring us last year's progress report.
Thirty minutes. We will show you which parts would have assembled themselves from your own center's records, including the acknowledgement classification. No pitch deck.