NLM Grants Move to Electronic Submission Process, Deadlines Change, Too
http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/
As of October 2007, the National Institutes of Health is replacing paper grant applications with electronic applications and has already begun the transition to requiring electronic submission of grant applications via the online portal of Grants.gov. NIH is transitioning from the paper 398 application form to the electronic application form called the SF424 (R&R).
Some NLM grant programs have already made the transition: NLM’s Knowledge Management & Applied Informatics Grants, Planning Grants for Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS), and Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine & Health.
The electronic submission process involves two systems working together; Grants.gov and the NIH electronic Research Administration (eRA) system. Grants.gov provides potential applicants with a single portal to find and apply for funding from all federal grant-making agencies. The NIH eRA Commons provides grantees with information about their grants, including summary statements and progress reports.
See http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/files/eSub_process_flow14.pdf for a process flow chart.
Application deadlines also changed in 2007. Each NLM grant program still has three application deadlines per year, on a new “rolling” calendar of deadlines. Program-specific application deadline dates are also included in Grants.gov entries.
