Brief overview of the SciENcv system for creating NSF and NIH required grant documentation. Details benefits, NSF's Oct 2023 requirement for use, how to export citations from Google Scholar and upload to MyNCBI for use in SciENcv, and links to additional resources.

1. SciENcv
Erin Owens, Professor & Scholarly Communications Librarian

2. Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae
• What: Researcher profile system
• Where: Housed inside My NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology
Information)
• Login with an existing account--NCBI, eRA Commons, NSF, NIH, ORCID,
Login.gov, Google, Microsoft--or create a new account
• Preferred login, if existing, is Research.gov credentials (NSF ID and password)
• Who: All researchers who apply for, receive, or are associated with research
investments from federal agencies

3. How to Use SciENcv
• Enter education, employment, research activities, publications, grants,
honors, etc.
• Use data to create multiple NIH, NSF, and IES biosketches for grant
submissions and/or create the official NSF Current and Pending Support
document
• Have existing data? SciENcv can pull existing profile data from
• eRA
• NSF
• ORCID (note some recent errors using ORCID as an external data source)

4. Forthcoming Requirements
• Oct 23, 2023 – Use of SciENcv
becomes mandatory to prepare bio
sketch and current and pending
support documents for NSF
• Note: NIH does not currently require
use of SciENcv, but strongly
encourages it to create compliant
biosketches

5. Benefits
• Reduces the administrative burden associated with federal grant submission and
reporting requirements
• Pull existing information from other systems
• Reduces duplicate/redundant data entry
• Provides templates for common biosketches (NIH, NSF, IES)
• Quickly create and edit multiple documents tailored for various purposes and awards,
using one central dataset of your activities and accomplishments
• Creates a professional profile that can be made public and shared with other
researchers (if desired)
• Allows granting of delegate access to administrators who support researchers

6. Additional Resources for Reference
• SciENcv | Frequently Asked Questions from Research.gov
• Short videos from National Library of Medicine on YouTube
• SciENcv Intro | 3 min
• SciENcv for NSF Users: Current and Pending (Other) Support | 5 min
• Excellent guides from other academic libraries
• Using SciENcv to Prepare NSF Formats | Guide from George Washington
University
• NIH Biosketches and SciENcv | Guide from UMass Chan Medical School
• SciENcv Resources | Guide from Bernard Becker Medical Library

7. Live Demonstration

8. Bonus Slide: Using Google Scholar to
Populate Your My NCBI Bibliography
• Already have publications in a Google Scholar profile?
• View your profile, and click the checkbox to Select All articles
• Click Export, and select RefMan
• Remember where you save the .RIS file
• On your My NCBI Dashboard…
• Click Manage My Bibliography
• Click Add Citations, and choose From a File
• Select the .RIS file you saved
• Citations will be added or updated as applicable!

9. Support
• Need help inputting your bibliography into SciENcv?
• Contact Erin to discuss support via delegate status
• Have questions about your actual documentation requirements?
• Contact ORSP

10. Thank You!
Erin Owens
Professor, Newton Gresham Library
Associate Director of Library Public
Services
Scholarly Communications Librarian
SHSU Box 2179
936-294-4567
eowens@shsu.edu