NIH Public Access Compliance: SciENcv

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!

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SciENcv (Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae) is a tool that is part of My NCBI. It helps researchers create profiles in the NIH biographical sketch format for researchers associated with federal grants. Included in the biosketch is education, employment research activities, publications, honors, awards and other professional contributions.

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 (learn more about ORCID here)
• Allows you to create multiple versions of your profile by using previously entered information.

• 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