NIH Public Access Compliance: SciENcv

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SciENcv (Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae) is a tool that is part of My NCBI. It helps researchers create sketches about education, employment research activities, publications, honors, awards and other professional contributions in the NIH biographical sketch, Department of Defense and National Science Foundation formats in order to be compliant with federal funding.

SciENcv is especially useful because its features include:

• Importing profile information from your eRA Commons account
• Uploads publications from the My NCBI's My Bibliography or your ORCID account 
• Allows you to create multiple versions of your profile by using previously entered information.

Before you create a BioSketch using SciENcv, you will want your publications listed in My NCBI's My Bibliography or you can also obtain a list of your publications from your ORCID account. See below about how to share your publications in My Bibliography.

Once you have publication information in either My Bibliography, ORCID, or both, you are ready to create a BioSketch, housed in SciENcv of NCBI account. The steps for using SciENcv are here and below is how to get to the SciENcv section in your NCBI account:

• Once you are logged into My NCBI, go to your Dashboard then look for the SciENcv tile and click on Manage SciENcv.
• Click on New Document
• Or click on existing document/biosketch

Please note that there are several types of biosketches depending on your grant source: 

To share a biosketch, you have to make the URL "public" for each one in the Sharing field. You can also download a biosketch in PDF, Word or XML.

To make your My Bibliography public/share publications, go to Publications in your NCBI Account, click on make your bibliography public. Then copy and paste the URL for sharing!

In addition to biographical sketches, most funders require Current and Pending or Other Support documents that list all resources made available or expected to be made available to an individual researcher. These resources include:

• Current support: Active awards or projects the individual is working on.
• Pending support: Proposals submitted and under consideration but not yet awarded.
• In-kind contributions: Non-monetary resources such as office or lab space, equipment, supplies, or personnel that directly support research efforts.

The purpose of the documents is to assess the researcher's capability to carry out the project; identify overlap or duplication in funding and detect conflicts of interest.

For details about each agency:
NIH - biosketches and a link to other support documents
NSF - other support documents, see NIH for biosketch

These changes are postponed indefinitely but still prepare: 
1. Be sure to link your ORCID to your personal profile in eRA Commons. 
2. ORCID sign in and more information
3. eRA Commons information and eRA Commons Personal Profile

• NCBI Help
• eRA Commons - Help 
• NIH Biosketch Help
• NIHMS Tutorial
• NIHMS Help Desk 
• NIH Public Access How To
• NIH Grants & Funding - Glossary of Terms/Acronyms

WFUSM Clinical Translational Sciences Institute offers:

• Scientific editing services for grant proposals
• NIH fund information and other funding opportunities