SciENcv Guidance

All You Need to Know About SciENcv!

Coming in May 2025 investigators must use SciENcv to format NIH and NSF key personnel documents.

SciENcv(Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae) is an application in My NCBI that helps you create and manage documents in support of grant applications with participating agencies. In SciENcv you can document your education, employment, research activities, publications, honors, research grants, and other professional contributions. The adoption of this common researcher profile system for Federal grants is intended to reduce administrative burden for researchers. Allow yourself ample time to transition to SciENcv, as the process will require manual data entry and review of data that is imported (e.g. publications).

Note for NIH forms:

• Biosketches and Current and Pending Support for proposals and RPPRs submitted on or after May 25, 2025 investigators must use the new Common Forms using SciENcv. NSF has already implemented the use of SciENcv.
• According to NOT-OD-24-163, "NIH will implement the Common Forms without change to any collection fields. However, in accordance with NIH’s Peer Review Regulations at 42 Code of Federal Regulations Part 52h, NIH currently plans to continue collecting three required agency specific data elements (i.e., Personal Statement, Contributions to Science, and Honors) to assess qualifications. These data elements will be collected separately from the Common Forms on a new NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement."

Please see NOT-OD-24-163 for more details.

ORCID iD

The easiest way to populate your SciENcv biosketch is through an ORCID iD. An ORCID/record is a free account that creates a persistent identifier that will follow you throughout your career and allows you to gather all of your scholarly work in a single location. You can use it to add publications to your Biosketch that are not included in PubMed.

To populate SciENcv biosketch with ORCID iD: 

1. Go into SciENcv and initiate the creation of a biographical sketch.
2. Select ORCID as your external data source (If you do not have an ORCID iD yet, guidance can be found on Emory Libraries web pages.)

For more detailed information view NIH’s FAQs. Additional communications and resources will be available to the research community over the upcoming months.

Contact Us

For questions or additional guidance, please contact the Research Security Office: researchsecurity@emory.edu