Scholar Profiles

Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) is an electronic system that helps researchers assemble the professional information needed for participation in federally funded research. SciENcv gathers and compiles information on expertise, employment, education and professional accomplishments. Researchers can use SciENcv to create and maintain biosketches that are submitted with grant applications and annual reports. SciENcv allows researchers to describe and highlight their scientific contributions in their own words.

What is a biosketch?

A biographical sketch or biosketch is a document highlighting the qualifications of key personnel for a specific role in a proposed grant project. Both the NIH and the NSF require a biosketch for senior or key personnel applying for and renewing grants with each agency.

Advantages of SciENcv

• Eliminates the need to repeatedly enter biosketch information
• Reduces the administrative burden associated with federal grant submission and reporting requirements
• Provides access to a researcher-claimed data repository with information on expertise, employment, education, and professional accomplishments
• Allow researchers to describe their scientific contributions in their own language

Principles of SciENcv

• Any researcher may register - it's free!
• Leverages data from existing systems
• Data are owned by the researcher
• Researcher controls what data are public
• Researcher edits and maintains information
• Researcher provides own data to describe research outcomes
• Researcher has ultimate control over data in biosketch

CFE x University Libraries Workshop: SciENcv

Creating Your NIH & NSF Biosketches

SciENcv (Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae) is a free researcher profile system for all individuals who apply for, receive, or are associated with research investments from federal agencies. The National Science Foundation will require that researchers create biosketches with SciENcv to apply for funding beginning Oct 23, 2023.  SciENcv also allows you to create a biosketch in the latest NIH format. In this workshop, we will walk through SciENcv to demonstrate how to use this tool to create an online professional profile to share with others for funding and other research purposes.
By the end of this presentation, learners will be able to: 
•    Understand the importance of biosketches for research and funding 
•    Understand the sections of a biosketch, focusing on NIH and NSF biosketches
•    Summarize the overall purpose of SciENcv
•    Navigate to SciENcv and successfully create a biosketch

View the program recording using the Bridge website. 

Additional tutorials from the National Library of Medicine:

The SciENcv utility is a cooperative project requested by the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP), which is an association of academic research institutions and federal agencies. In collaboration with the FDP, SciENcv is being built by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Institutes of Health under the aegis of an interagency workgroup composed of members from the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation (NSF), The Smithsonian, and the United States Department of Agriculture. The interagency workgroup operates under the National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) Research Business Models and Science of Science Policy Committees.