SciENcv is a free profile service that is part of My NCBI,
offered by the National Institutes of Health.
This video focuses on special features in SciENcv that help you quickly create, share, and maintain
NSF approved biographical sketches, and these can be used for proposal submission.
Complete details about NSF Biographical Sketch requirements are available in
the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide, see Part I, Chapter 2.
Let’s get started back on the SciENcv home page by using the big blue button, Click here to start.
Click the NSF login icon to sign into your account.
If you do not already have a linked NSF account,
you will be taken to this page at Research.gov, to verify your credentials.
At this point you can either create an NCBI account, or link an existing NCBI account.
Additional information on linking accounts, such as from ORCiD to NCBI,
can be found in the My NCBI Help documentation on our Bookshelf,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3842
in the section called, Signing in using a My NCBI username and password.
I'm now logged in to a mock account and I'm on the SciENcv main page.
If you have more than one profile, you will see a list here.
To generate a new profile, use Create New Document.
SciENcv offers four format options when creating a new biographical profile.
And several options for the data source.
You can create one from scratch starting with a blank page.
You can duplicate an existing biosketch and edit that.
Or, you can use an external source to populate sections of the biosketch…such
as using ORCiD to import citations, education and other data.
Please note that only some of the external information
is editable by the user and will not automatically update from the external source.
I am now on an existing NSF biosketch, and I'll show some editing options.
You can choose to share your profile here.
For editing, some sections have a link called Edit entries.
Click on that and the delete and edit options become available.
The products section is linked to your My Bibliography collection.
Click on Select citations, then Add citations, and you can add citations from PubMed right here,
or, Go to My Bibliography if you want to upload an .RIS file, or create manual citations,
and of course you can add PubMed citations in MyBib as well.
If your ORCiD account is linked to My NCBI, ORCiD citations will sync in this section.
In accordance with the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide,
a biographical sketch cannot exceed 2 pages, so we have implemented an option in SciENcv
to reduce the number of authors displayed when your NCBI account is linked to ORCID.
Click the Edit authors link for the citation that you want to amend. An
edit contributors window opens where you can amend the list and add et al.
in lieu of including the complete list of authors names.
After modifying the record, click Save.
Your edited citations will display in the Edited tab
and all modified citations are marked in red in the ORCID tab.
Down in Section D, Synergistic Activities, a hover box brings up options that allow you to edit,
delete and change the position of the entries.
Back at the top of this page, you see that biosketches can be downloaded in PDF format.
After a PDF file is generated in SciENcv,
you can rename the file, but, to avoid corrupting the file's compliance data you must not export it.
Follow these steps to rename the file if there is not a Save or Save as option
for the SciENcv-generated PDF file. Close the PDF file
Right click on the file to rename it
Then upload the PDF to an NSF proposal via Research.gov, FastLane, or Grants.gov.
Finally, just a reminder that anyone with a My NCBI account can create biosketch profiles.
You get to this Settings page by following your My NCBI user name link at the top of the page.
In addition, you can assign delegates to manage your profiles.
Note that you can assign delegates independently for SciENcv and for My Bibliography.
We welcome feedback on SciENcv. If you have questions about SciEncv,
please contact the NSF Help Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or by email, rgov@nsf.gov.
Policy-related questions should be directed to policy@nsf.gov.
Additional information, plus links to help documentation,
is available here on the SciENcv home page.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sciencv/