Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv)

New Biosketch Format  Must use the NIH biographical sketch starting May 25,  Personal Statement section now includes up to 4 citations to substantiate your claim.  Contribution to Science section  Replaces the former section Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications.  Describe five of your most significant contributions to science.

Useful Features of the ScienCV  You control the content of your SciENcv profile and can edit it as needed. This includes the ability to hide selective citations or add non-NIH research awards.  You choose whether or not to make your SciENcv profile visible to the public. It is private by default.  You can create multiple profiles within SciENcv so that each biosketch is tailored to suit a particular grant application.  You can export your SciENcv profile as a PDF file and use it when submitting a grant application through the grants.gov website.  Once you create a SciENcv profile, it's static, but you can reuse it or parts of it.  When you add references to My Bibliography, those references will also be available in SciENcv. Click on "show/hide entries" to see them.

NIH Biographical Sketch Data  Enter or import your biographical data once, then convert it into a format that can be used when submitting NIH or NSF grant applications.  How to create the Sketch?  Create the profile from scratch,  Use an existing source of data (e.g., ORCID or eRA Commons), or  Use an existing SCienCV profile.

From Scratch

External Data Source

Copy an Existing Profile

Personal Statement  Include up to four peer-reviewed publications to highlight work experience and qualifications. Add the citations. Select the citations. Display the citations.

Contribution to Science  Researchers describe five of their most significant contributions to science. Each contribution entry has two parts: a description and relevant references of up to four peer-reviewed publications.  Select Contribution to Science.  Add entries to Contribution to Science  (Two parts: Description and citation).  Delete unused tabs.  Done.

Setting up a My NCBI account  Log in to My NCBI using the NIH Login; enter your eRA Commons ID and password.  Search for all of your publications in PubMed. Use the “send to” menu on the search results page to send the references to My Bibliography.  Click on “My NCBI” in the upper right corner. Look for the My Bibliography box.  Click on “Manage My Bibliography.” It should be populated with all of your references.  If you have authored additional publications that aren’t included in PubMed, you can manually add them to My Bibliography by clicking on “Add Citation.”  At the top of the page is a link to make your bibliography “public.” When you click on this, it will show you the “public URL” that you can paste into your biosketch.  Keep your My Bibliography account up-to-date by periodically adding citations for your newly-published articles.

Other Resources   SciENcv YouTube video tutorial SciENcv YouTube video tutorial 