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The latest release of Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) allows you to create a biosketch in the new NIH format and has addressed some of the issues users had been reporting. The SciENcv system allows you to enter or import your biographical data once, then convert it into a format that can be used when submitting NIH or NSF grant applications. The NIH National Library of Medicine recently published a technical bulletin to help you create a biosketch either by importing your information from an external source (for example, an ORCID account, or an eRA Commons account), by manually entering your information, or by using your existing SciENcv profile. Read more here.
Access to the (almost useless) SciEnv system does not make up for the (completely unaccountable, unwarranted, moronic,and just plain stupid) decision to ram the requirement for “enhanced” biosketches down the throat of the research community.
The non-scientist, non-researcher, hack administrators responsible for the decision need to realize that they are paid by US taxpayers to support biomedical research. Not to create pointless paperwork requirements that impede biomedical research.
I like the potential with this approach to a central and dynamic record (catching-up with ResearchGate). The sooner we learn to stop thinking of the bio in terms of boxes on an 8.5×11 sheet of paper (or, worse, electronically stored information confined to a simulation of an 8.5×11 display) the better. NIH should also make it clear that if you have a Personal Statement then there is no need to duplicate that statement in a letter of support on letterhead, signed, scanned, uploaded as an appendix, etc.
I’ve followed the blog on the new NIH Biographical Sketch requirements. Whether I like it or not, being on the support side, I will need to follow the new format. This new posting states “The latest release of Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) allows you to create a biosketch in the new NIH format.”
I don’t find the new NIH format in SciENcv. There is no place to add paragraphs for section C. Contributions to Science nor a place to add a link to MyNCBI. If I want to use SciENcv to create a bio but then have to download the word document and modify it, it seems like added work.
Also, there seems to be a disconnect with links. There is a link in the NOT-OD-15-032 that takes you to the SF 424 forms and applications (this has the new NIH biosketch format); however; in SciENcv under the profile type, the link goes to the PHS398, which has the old form.
If others are finding the new format in SciENcv, please let me know where I can find it.
If you log into your MY NCBI account (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/) the SciENcv is on the bottom right hand side of your screen.
Directions are here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/jf15/jf15_biosketch.html
EJK — thanks so much for the help. I was trying to edit an old bio but if I create a new bio, the new NIH bio option is there.
Have a great weekend!