Researcher: To Be or Not To Be
Is Researcher a viable career choice today in the US? The success rate for grants at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) dropped well below the 20% rate to an…
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InfoEd support for NIH Adobe-B2 Application Forms
NIH has begun phasing in a new set of forms for electronic submission – “ADOBE-FORMS-B2”. The first application deadline requiring use of these “B2” forms is in early September, although…
NIH Announces Medical Research Scholars Program
The United States National Institutes of Health has launched a new Medical Research Scholars program that will begin approximately one year from now. The program will represent a collaborative effort…
NSF Funds Public/Private Partnerships to Identify Entrepreneurial Qualities in Research
On July 28th, 2011, the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new funding program titled Innovation Corps, or “I-Corps”. The I-Corps program will provide up to 100 grants…
US Federal-wide Researcher Profiles
As those of you who attend the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) meetings knows, the goal of a database of researcher profiles that can be shared/referenced across agencies to facilitate proposal…
SF-424 Research & Related (R&R) Forms Update
Many of you may have noticed that the SF-424 R&R forms expired on 6/30/2011 (fig. 1). Federal forms for grant applications flow through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)…
NIH Adobe B2 Forms
As everyone is aware, the NIH began posting new opportunities using updated forms, the “Adobe – Forms-B2” Three changes are incorporated into the new forms. Two of the changes are…
Reducing Administrative Burden in Research
A great goal, I think everyone would agree. This is the focus of the Federal Demonstration Partnership sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. For educational institutions, many of the…
Where’s my “Search-within–a-Search” in the New SPIN Quick Search?
Many current SPIN users will quickly notice that the new SPIN Quick Search (QS) does not contain a specific field for “Search-within-a-Search.” That field, which is popular in the older…