FY26 budgets: Action may be required

FY26 budgets: Action may be required

  • By default, the majority of budgets have an expiration of Monday, June 30, 2025.
  • Most Ohio academic clients will need to set new budgets for FY26 before June 30 to avoid service disruption, depending on the project type as detailed below. FY26 is the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.
  • As a reminder, the project budgets can only be managed by the project PI or a project administrator designated by the PI.

FY26 pricing

FY26 pricing will remain the same for all existing services. You can view the current pricing when creating a new budget in MyOSC, under the 'Budget Estimator Tool'.

Ohio academic clients

Research projects - ACTION REQUIRED

If you use OSC for research, you will need to set up FY26 budgets if you have not already done so. It may be helpful to review a video explaining how to create and manage budgets. If you have any questions about billing, contact your institution representative or contact OSC Help.

Do the following to create your budget for each project you want to use in FY26:

  1. Log into MyOSC
  2. Open the project details
  3. Select "Create a new budget"
  4. Select "Add or replace the CURRENT budget" to set the FY26 budget (PIs with The Ohio State University's College of Medicine should select "unlimited" for the budget by choosing 'No' to the question: Do you want to set a dollar budget?)
  5. Confirm your budget dates on the budget review page before submitting
  6. You will receive an email that your application has been submitted

To review your FY25 usage, PIs and project admins can log into MyOSC and go to "Projects -> Billing Statements" in the menu and select "Current FY Billed and Un-Billed Usage (estimated)" to see the total usage from July 1, 2024, until today without applicable credits or discounts. You can use this information to estimate your projected FY26 usage. PIs can also utilize the OSCusage command.

Classroom projects - ACTION REQUIRED

All the currently active classroom projects will expire on June 30, 2025 and the classroom project will be restricted on July 1.

If you plan to run classroom projects at OSC this summer, please contact OSC Help at your earliest convenience to avoid any disruptions to your classroom activities.

Classroom projects will not be billed under the Ohio academic fee structure; all fees will be fully discounted at the time of billing.

Campus Champions

Campus Champion projects will expire on June 30, 2025. If you are interested in continuing in FY26, please contact OSC Help.

Ohio academic research credits

OSC will automatically issue the $1,000 annual research credit for FY26 to Ohio academic PIs when their project becomes activated. Any remaining FY25 credits will expire on June 30, 2025. 

In exchange for your credit in FY26, please assist OSC by reporting your publications, funding and student successes. Your reports provide data we can use to help justify continuing state support and argue for expanded subsidies. Report your publications and funding on MyOSC. 

Commercial, nonprofit and other clients, such as condo

If you are not an Ohio academic user, no action is required; OSC manages budgets for you (or has set unlimited budgets for your projects).