Modules, User Guides and Documentation

• eRA Commons
  • Quick Launch
  • Overview
  • User Guide
  • Release Notes
  • New Features and Fixes
  • Training
• Status Feature
  • Overview
  • User Guide
  • Release Notes
  • New Features and Fixes
• Personal Profile
  • Overview
  • User Guide
  • Release Notes
  • New Features and Fixes
• Institutional Profile
  • Overview
  • User Guide
  • Release Notes
  • New Features and Fixes
• Just in Time
  • Overview
  • User Guide
  • Release Notes
  • New Features and Fixes
• LikeThis
  • Overview
  • User Guide (PDF)
  • FAQs

Search NIH Funded Research

• RePORT & RePORTER
  • Quick Launch (RePORT — Reports, data and analysis of NIH research activities)
  • Quick Launch (RePORTER — Search database of funded grants)

Basic Tasks

• Registration/Account Creation
  • How-to step by step
    • To register the applicant institution in eRA Commons
    • To create new user accounts
  • Policy Links
    • SF424 (R&R) Application Guides
• Fill Out Personal Profile
  • How-to step by step
    • Edit Personal Profile Information
    • Add/Edit Race/Ethnicity Information
    • Employment
    • Reviewer Specific
    • Continuous Submission (users with IAR role only)
    • Confirmation of Email Address
    • Residential Address
    • Degrees/Residency
    • Early Stage Investigator
    • To Add a Publication
    • Trainee-Specific
    • Reference Letter
  • Policy Links
    • New and Early Stage Investigator Policies
    • Publications: NIH Public Access
    • Continuous Submission: Peer Review Policies & Practices
• Manage Your Professional Bibliography (My NCBI)
  • Overview & Benefits
    • Overview & Benefits
  • How-to step by step
    • Get Started with My NCBI: Access My NCBI, Register, and Sign In
      
    • Manage Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy in My NCBI
    • Edit Your My Bibliography Settings (Add a Delegate)
• Manage Institutional Profile
  • How-to step by step
    • Manage the Institutional Profile
    • View Institutional Profile
    • Edit Institutional Profile Information
    • View IPF Assurances and Certifications
    • View Institution Usage
• Affiliate a PI to a New Institution
  • Follow these steps to ‘Affiliate a PI to a New Institution’
• Submitting an Application
  • How-to step by step
    • Submitting an Application
  • Policy Links
    • SF424 (R&R) Application Guides
• Track Status of Application/View Errors/Warnings
  • How-to step by step
    • Steps for a PI to track the application status
    • Steps for a SO to track the application status
  • Policy Links
    • SF424 (R&R) Application Guides
• View Summary Statements, Scores
  • How-to step by step
    • For a PI to access his/her application’s summary statement
  • Policy Links
    • Initial Peer Review
• Submit Just in Time Information
  • How-to step by step
    • Submit Just in Time information
  • Policy Links
    • NIH Grants Policy Statement

Training Materials

• Overview of the Electronic Grant Application Process
  • Overview of the Electronic Grant Application Process
• Registering with Grants.gov and eRA Commons
  • Registering with Grants.gov and eRA Commons
• Finding, Completing, and Submitting Your Electronic Application
  • Finding, Completing, and Submitting Your Electronic Application
• Using eRA Commons
  • Using eRA Commons to Complete the Submission Process
  • eRA Commons Account Administration Basics (PowerPoint - 3MB)
    (June 2011)
  • eRA Commons Post Submission Functionality (PowerPoint - 2 MB)
    (June 2011)
• Managing Your Professional Bibliography (My NCBI):
  • Link an eRA Commons Account to a My NCBI Account (animated online tutorial)
  • Associate a Paper with a Grant in Commons (animated online tutorial)
    
  • Move Publications from eRA Commons to My NCBI (animated online tutorial)
    
  • Add a New Citation to My Bibliography in My NCBI (animated online tutorial)
  • Use eRA Commons to Check Citations for Valid NIHMS ID (animated online tutorial)

Related Links

• Applying Electronically
• eRA Commons Demo site (to practice using Commons features)
• Office of Extramural Research
• Grants.gov
• NIH Forms and Applications
• Application Receipt Dates/Deadlines
• Policy Links
  • SF424 (R&R) Application Guides
  • NIH Grants Policy Statement
  • NIH Policy on Late Submission of Grant Applications
  • Peer Review Process
  • New and Early Stage Investigator Policies
  • NIH Public Access Policy (for publications)
  • Continuous Submission Policy (for eligible applicants)

Communication Resources

• Applying Electronically FAQs
• Additional Applying Electronically Resources (annotated application forms, announcement flyers, tip/quick reference sheets, etc.)
• eRA Commons FAQs
• eRA Commons Roles
• Letters of Reference FAQs (for submissions for F, K, T grant mechanisms, etc.)
• Switching Institutions? Forgot Password? Keep Your Existing eRA Commons Account!

Contact

• eRA Commons Help Desk
  Web: http://itservicedesk.nih.gov/eRA/
  Toll-free: 1-866-504-9552
  Phone: 301-402-7469
  TTY: 301-451-5939
  Hours: Mon. – Fri., 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Time
  
  
• NIH Grants Info
  Phone: 301-435-0714
  TTY: 301-451-5936
  Fax: 301-480-0525
  E-mail:GrantsInfo@nih.gov
  
  
• Contact Information for Grants.gov

• Find NIH Contacts
  • NIH Enterprise Directory (NED) – e-mail and telephone directory for all NIH staff
  • NIH Grants Administration Information Sources