1. NIH Electronic Resources & Tools: June 2010 Megan Columbus Acting Director, Division of Communications and Outreach Office of Extramural Research (OER)

2. Goals of this Session Combat information overload!

3. Goals of This Session Help you dive in and use tools to find out who and what NIH funds

4. http://www.nih.gov/

5. Office of Extramural Research Web Site http://www.grants.nih.gov/

6. NAVIGATION POINT #1 Trying to make heads or tails of the grants process?

7. http://www.grants.nih.gov/

8. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/grants_process.htm

9. http://www.grants.nih.gov/

10. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/funding_program.htm

11. Need to find a funding opportunity? Or the latest grants policy changes or announcements? NAVIGATION POINT #2

12. Search Grants.gov to Identify Potential Funding Agencies www.grants.gov/ Fed-wide portal for finding grant opportunities

13. http://www.grants.nih.gov/ NIH specific opportunities

14. NIH GUIDE FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS What can I find in “The Guide”? –Official notification of NIH policies, notices and availability of funds –NIH specific funding opportunity announcements http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html

15. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.htm

16. Public Access Advanced Guide search feature helps target your searches for notices or funding opportuniteis

17. Search results sortable by header

18. NIH Guide http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.htm

19. NIH Guide is published daily. Subscribe to listserv to receive table of contents each Friday… or subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter

20. When is this thing due?! NAVIGATION POINT #3

21. http://www.grants.nih.gov/

22. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm 3 standard application dates per year for each type of grant Scroll further down the page for…

23. … review dates and earliest project start dates for each cycle …and other submission policies late applications holiday/weekend receipt dates continuous submission policies

24. NAVIGATION POINT #4 Doing the right thing

25. http://www.grants.nih.gov/

26. GRANTS POLICY RESOURCES NIH Grants Policy Statement –Explicitly defines the roles, responsibilities –Is a term and condition of all grant awards –Available at: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps_2003/index.htm

27. NAVIGATION POINT #5 Who speaks acronymese?! NIH FOAs (RFAs, PAs, PARs) issued by our ICs (NIAID, NCI, NIAAA, NIDA, NCI, NICHD, etc.) for AREA,SBIR and other programs reflect updates to GWAS, multiple PI, EPR and other policies.

28. http://www.grants.nih.gov/

29. Glossary of NIH terms: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/glossary.htm NIH acronym definitions: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/acronym_list.htm

30. NAVIGATION POINT #6 Make sense of our ever changing environment