ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO NIH GUIDE FOR GRANTS AND CONTRACTS NIH GUIDE, Volume 21, Number 12, March 27, 1992 P.T. 16 Keywords: Information Science/Systems SCIENCE PLANNING/POLICY National Institutes of Health The NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts can be obtained electronically by the extramural community in two ways: o Electronic Networks to Institutional Hubs (E-Guide) o NIH Grant Line, an Electronic Bulletin Board The advantage of both of these methods is that announcements are available to the extramural community immediately upon publication, without the delay due to mailing the print version. In addition, the full length version of each Request for Applications (RFA) may be obtained from both of the electronic means of dissemination. Use of these means is encouraged. INSTITUTIONAL HUBS Institutional subscriptions to the E-Guide, which includes the NIH Guide, the full text of RFAs, indices, and directories, are available upon request. The subscriber, usually located in the Office of Sponsored Research or equivalent, receives the E-Guide via an electronic network (BITNET or INTERNET) once per week, concomitant with the publication of the print version of the NIH Guide. From the point of receipt, the E-Guide may be forwarded in print or electronically, at the discretion of the recipient, to researchers and administrators at that institution. To express interest in serving as an Institutional Hub, send an E-mail message that includes the name of the designated person, the E-mail address, title, and location of that person, and the estimated number of individuals to whom the E-Guide will be distributed locally. Send the request to Ms. Rebecca Duvall, Program Analyst for the NIH Guide, at BITNET Q2C@NIHCU or INTERNET Q2C@CU.NIH.GOV. NIH GRANT LINE Contents The purpose of NIH Grant Line (known also as DRGLINE) is to make program and policy information of the Public Health Service (PHS) agencies rapidly available to the biomedical research community. Most of the information available on this bulletin board is derived from the weekly publication, the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts, and consists of Notices, Notices of Availability of RFAs and Requests for Proposals, Program Announcements, and statements of PHS policy. The information to be found on the NIH GRANT LINE is grouped into three main sections: (1) short News Flashes that appear without any prompting shortly after logon, (2) Bulletins that are for reading, and (3) Files that are intended mainly for downloading. The Files section is grouped into ten Directories as follows: Name Entries Description GENINFO 2 General NIH info, acronyms, receipt dates GUIDENDX 10 Various indexes to NIH Guide and RFA schedule GUIDE90 26 Weekly issues of NIH Guide for 1990 GUIDE91 49 NIH Guide, 1991, New Electronic Format GUIDE92 7 E-GUIDE, 1992, Weekly Electronic Editions PROGUIDE 13 NIH program announcements and guidelines RFAS90 42 Full text of 1990 RFAS available electronically RFAS91 150 Full Text of 1991 RFAs available electronically RFAS92 15 Full Text of 1992 RFAs available electronically TELDIR 2 NIH telephone directory, for extramural use Directories whose names are of the form GUIDEyy (where yy is the year) contain the weekly issues of the NIH Guide for that year. Directories whose names are of the form RFASyy contain the full text of RFAs distributed during that year. Program announcements and guidelines are found in both GUIDEyy and PROGUIDE, but the ones in PROGUIDE are usually applicable to all of NIH, are often grant mechanism oriented, and will be effective for longer periods of time than those in GUIDEyy. Newly announced programs would first appear in the GUIDEyy directories. To access the NIH GRANT LINE: 1. Configure the terminal emulator as: 1200 or 2400 baud, even parity, 7 data bits, 1 stop bit, Local Echo on. 2. Using the procedure specified in the communication software, dial 1-301-492-2221. When you get a response indicating that you have been connected, type ",GEN1" (don't type the quotes) and press ENTER; you will be prompted for "INITIALS?". Type BB5 and press ENTER. You will then be prompted for "ACCOUNT?". Type CCS2 and press ENTER. Messages and a menu will be displayed that will allow you to read Bulletins or download Files. On the NIH GRANT LINE, back issues of the NIH Guide are found in two different directories. GUIDE90 has issues going back to July 6, 1990; GUIDE91 has all of the issues in 1991; and GUIDE92 has all of the issues to date in 1992. The Q (Quit) command returns the user to the Main menu. From there the F (Files) command is used to enter the file processing facility of the bulletin board. Use the D (Directory) command to see general descriptions of the various Directories. Selection of a given Directory, (GUIDENDX for example), will display the names and descriptions of files. The T (Transfer) command downloads the selected file. After the file has been named and ENTER pressed, one of the downloading options may be selected. To download the file to a personal computer, Option 1 should be selected to obtain instructions in the preparation for downloading. Although the access to NIH GRANT LINE is through a modem, users who have a Bitnet or Internet address may use Option 2 to mail a file instead of downloading it through the modem. Mailing files can greatly reduce the length of the online interactive session and long distance telephone charges. When a file to be "downloaded" has been selected, chose option 2 to transmit via a network and then respond with the desired E-mail address. INQUIRIES Additional information about subscribing as an Institutional Hub may be obtained from: Ms. Rebecca Duvall Institutional Affairs Office National Institutes of Health 9000 Rockville Pike Building 31, Room 5B31 Bethesda, MD 20892 Telephone: (301) 496-5366 Additional information about the NIH GRANT LINE may be obtained from: Dr. John James Division of Research Grants National Institutes of Health Westwood Building, Room 109 Telephone: (301) 496-7554 .
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