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Latest News

• Issue with Notice of Award Notifications
  (April 23, 2012)
• eRA Commons Offline During Sat, April 28 Maintenance
  (April 23, 2012)
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• Grants News Flash

Latest Postings

• eSNAP User Guide (PDF - 2 MB)
  (May 3, 2012)
• Change of Institution User Guide (PDF - 2 KB)
  (April 20, 2012)
• Change of Institutions FAQs
  (April 20, 2012)
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Resources

• eRA Commons FAQs
• Quick Queries
• eRA Browser Support
• OER Glossary and Acronym List
• eRA Virtual School
• eRA Commons Roles (PDF)
• Password Policy for eRA Commons (PDF)

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Modules, User Guides and Documentation

• eRA Commons
  • Quick Launch
  • Overview
  • User Guide
  • Release Notes
  • New Features and Fixes
• Personal Profile
  • Overview
  • User Guide
  • Release Notes
  • New Features and Fixes
• Electronic Streamlined Non-competing Award Process (eSNAP)
  • Overview
  • User Guide
  • Release Notes
  • New Features and Fixes
• Financial Conflict of Interest
  • Overview
  • User Guide (PDF)
  • Release Notes
  • New Features and Fixes
• Financial Status Report/Federal Financial Report
  • Overview
  • User Guide (PDF)
  • Release Notes
  • New Features and Fixes
• iEdison
  • Quick Launch
  • Overview
  • Release Notes

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

• View Notice of Award
  • How-to step by step
    • View Notice of Award
  • Policy Links
    • Award Management
    • NIH Grants Policy Statement
• 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
      
    • Link an eRA Commons Account to a My NCBI Account (demo)
      
    • Associate a Paper with a Grant in Commons (demo)
      
    • Add a New Citation to My Bibliography in My NCBI (demo)
      
    • Manage Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy in My NCBI
      
    • Use eRA Commons to Check Citations for Valid NIHMS ID (demo)
      
    • Edit Your My Bibliography Settings (Add a Delegate)
• Submit Electronic Streamlined Non-competing Award Process (eSNAP)
  • How-to step by step
    • For an SO to delegate authority to the PI to submit the eSNAP report
    • Submit eSNAP
  • Policy Links
    • NIH Grants Policy Statement
    • NIH Requires Electronic Submission of SNAPs Beginning August 1, 2010 (May 7, 2010)
    • All Personnel Report in the Revised PHS2590 (NOT-OD-09-150) (Sept. 22, 2009)
• Submit Financial Conflict of Interest
  • How-to step by step
    • Roles associated with FCOI
    • For the SO to delegate FCOI authority
    • Initiate a new FCOI notification
    • Submit new FCOI Notification (users with FCOI roles only)
  • Policy Links
    • Conflict of Interest
• Submit Financial Status Report/Federal Financial Report
  • How-to step by step
    • Background and Reporting Due Dates for NIH FFR Expenditure Data
    • FSR-related roles in eRA Commons
    • Steps for the SO, AO or AA to add the FSR role to a person’s profile
    • Steps to Submit a FSR/FFR
  • Policy Links
    • New Federal Financial Report Required from Feb. 1 for Reporting Expenditure Data via eRA Commons (Jan. 4, 2011)
    • Post-Award Process
    • NIH Grants Policy Statement
• Submit No-Cost Extension
  • How-to step by step
    • Steps for the SO to submit a No-cost Extension
  • Policy Links
    • Mandating Use of Commons to Submit No-Cost Extension (July 15, 2011)
    • NIH Grants Policy Statement
• Submit a Relinquishing Statement
  • How-to step by step
    • Steps to submit an electronic Relinquishing Statement (RS)
• Close Out Your Grant
  • How-to step by step
    • Steps for the PI and SO to locate the Grants Closeout link
    • Search for grants requiring Closeout or to check the status of a recently closed grant
    • For Application IDs that have an Action status of Requires Closeout, proceed with the following
      • Submit Final Invention Statement
      • Submit Final Progress Report
      • Submit Final Financial Status Report/Federal Financial Report
  • Policy Links
    • Award Management
    • NIH Grants Policy Statement

Related Links

• Office of Extramural Research
• Grants.gov

Communication Resources

• Overview of Electronic Submission of Administrative Supplements (PDF - 636 KB)
• Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) Presentation (PowerPoint - 810 KB) October 2008
• eRA Commons FAQs

Training Materials

Please contact eracommunications@mail.nih.gov if you need assistance viewing these documents.

• eRA Commons Account Administration Basics (PowerPoint - 3 MB)
  (April 2012)
• eRA Commons Post Submission Functionality (PowerPoint - 2 MB)
  (April 2012)

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, 7a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern Time
  
  
• Find NIH Contacts
  • NIH Enterprise Directory (NED) - email and Telephone Directory for all NIH Staff
  • NIH Grants Administration Information Sources