The document discusses options for comprehensively tracking NIH-funded researchers. It proposes: 1) Extending the requirement for NIH eRA Commons accounts to all students and postdocs on NIH projects to capture data in annual reports. 2) Automating NIH Research Training Tables to prepopulate with existing data and share with program directors. 3) Enhancing the SciENcv online biosketch tool to auto-populate biosketches, link researchers to grants and publications using ORCID IDs, and eventually replace uploaded PDF biosketches. 4) Requiring ORCID IDs to help identify individual researchers and their contributions across different systems and agencies.

1. The adoption of ORCID
identifiers by funding
organizations
Walter (Wally) Schaffer, PhD
Senior Scientific Advisor for
Extramural Research, U.S. National
Institutes of Health
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2276-4656
123 April 2014

2. NIH - ACD Working Group
on the Biomedical Research Workforce
• Chaired by Shirley Tilghman (Princeton) and Sally Rockey
(NIH)
• Modeling Subcommittee chaired by Bruce Weinberg
(OSU) and Donna Ginther (KU)
• Charge
• Develop a model for a sustainable and diverse U.S.
biomedical research workforce
• Make recommendations to support a future sustainable
biomedical infrastructure.

3. Comprehensive NIH Tracking Options
• Extend Requirement for NIH eRA Commons
Accounts
• Current Requirement
• Students and Postdocs
 On NRSA Since 1974
 Comprehensive evaluation studies
 NRSA service payback
 Legally enforceable
• NIH Reform Act of 2006
 Evaluate Postdocs (and students) as for NRSA
 Require Commons Account for Postdocs beginning in FY 2010
– http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not-od-09-140.html
• Extend to students on NIH projects
• Capture in annual progress report
• Implement for October 2014

4. Comprehensive NIH Tracking Options (cont.)
• NRSA Research Training Tables
• Automate
• Build on NIEHS/FIC CareerTrac and NINDS Trainee
Tracking System
• Share database with Program
Directors
• Prepopulate with existing eRA Commons and
Appointment data
• Information available to reviewers
• Information also available to analysts for tracking and
evaluation
• Once built
 Extend reporting period to 15 years
 Include all students and postdocs that participate in the training

5. Comprehensive NIH Tracking Options (cont.)
• Enhance SciENcv – Create on-line, structured biosketches
• NLM/NCBI,
 Eight Federal Agencies,
 Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP)
• Create auto-populated, CV-like data collection
• Generate biosketches for Federal grants for any agency
• Unambiguous, claimed links between researchers - their grants and – their
scientific output
• Available as beta version
• Substantial NIH update by the end of Spring
• Eventually replace biosketch images
• NSF added by October

6. SciENcv Beta Version,
Introduced September 2013
Inputs
ORCID
eRA Commons
NCBI My
Bibliography
Output
NIH & NSF
Biosketch

7. Connecting your ORCID

8. Comprehensive NIH Tracking Options (cont.)
• Use Open Researcher and Contributor IDs
(ORCID)
• Some publishers & funders encourage or require ORCID
IDs
• Brisk adoption
• Portal to ORCID within SciENcv
• Users consume ORCID and associate ORCIDs with
publications and grants
• Help identify individuals and their scientific contributions
• Facilitate identification of individuals across systems
(agency to agency)
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2276-4656

9. Biosketch PDF export

10. Plans for SciENcv Enhancements
• Maintain Multiple NIH biosketches – clone from existing
• Describe scientific contributions
• Non-publication output – prepopulate RPPR-Section C
• Users pull data from external profile systems (e.g., VIVO)
• Variable levels of information exposure
• API transfer data to/from EndNote, Scopus, Linked In, etc.
• Allow delegates to enter data
• Additional output options
• Revised biosketch pilot
• Add NSF by October 2014