NIH GUIDE - - - HOW TO OBTAIN CURRENT AND PAST ISSUES NIH Guide, Volume 25, Number 23, July 12, 1996 P.T. 34 Keywords: Grants Administration/Policy+ 1014017 National Institutes of Health The following is an update of instructions for obtaining the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts by subscribing to a LISTSERV edition, through the internet, and on an electronic bulletin board. The NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts is published in one printed and several electronic editions. One copy of the printed edition, which includes notices regarding NIH policy and notices of the availability of Program Announcements, Requests for Applications, and Requests for Proposals, is provided to the office of sponsored research or equivalent of any interested organization. The electronic editions and procedures for obtaining them are provided below. o LISTSERV SUBSCRIPTION for full text The NIHGDE-L is an electronic edition of the full text of the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. Subscribing and unsubscribing to/from the LIST is done via email, using customary LISTSERV commands. To subscribe to the LIST, send mail to listserv@list.nih.gov. The text of the mail should read ONLY: SUBSCRIBE NIHGDE-L First-name Last-name The First & Last names should be in upper & lower case; e.g.: SUBSCRIBE NIHGDE-L Bill Jones This will subscribe the email address from which the mail was sent. To subscribe an address from which mail cannot be sent (e.g., an internal distribution list), send mail to wkj@cu.nih.gov. To remove an address from this LIST, send mail to listserv@list.nih.gov from that address. The text of the mail should read ONLY: UNSUBSCRIBE NIHGDE-L o LISTSERV SUBSCRIPTION to Table of Contents The NIHTOC-L list contains only the Table of Contents of each issue of the NIH Guide. The full text version of any notice, program announcement (PA), or request for applications (RFA) can be obtained through other means such as the NIH website, the NIH Grant Line Bulletin Board, or via ftp. Each issue of the TOC contains the URL that may be used via Gopher to access that issue of the E-Guide and/or the full text of a Program Announcement or Request for Applications on the NIH Gopher server. (see also item 4., below) To subscribe to the NIHTOC-L, send mail to LISTSERV@list.nih.gov. The text of the mail should read ONLY: SUBSCRIBE NIHTOC-L First-name Last-name To unsubscribe, the command is: UNSUBSCRIBE NIHTOC-L o NIH GRANT LINE BULLETIN BOARD To access the NIH Grant Line, the terminal emulator must be configured as follows: 2400 or 9600 baud, even parity, 7 data bits, 1 stop bit, half duplex. Using the procedure specified in the communication software, dial 1-301-402-2221. When a response indicates that a connection has been made, type ,GEN1 (the comma is mandatory) and press ENTER; the NIH system will prompt for INITIALS?. Type BB5 and press ENTER. A prompt will ask for ACCOUNT? Type CCS2 and press ENTER. Messages and a menu will be displayed that allow one to read Bulletins and download Files. Back issues of the NIH Guide are found in different Directories. GUIDE90 has issues going back to July 6, 1990; GUIDE91, GUIDE92, and GUIDE93 have all issues for each year. Type F (for FILES) to access any of the files that are arranged into directories. To get an overview of the kinds of information available, type D (for Directory). Access to the NIH Grant Line via the Internet To access the NIH Grant Line in an interactive Internet session, Telnet to wylbur.cu.nih.gov and, when a message has been received that the connection is open, type VT100. At the INITIALS? prompt, type BB5 and at the ACCOUNT? prompt, type CCS2. This puts the user into the NIH Grant Line. o WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW) Current and past issues of the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts may be accessed via the World Wide Web. The NIH gopher server, which contains the printed edition of the NIH Guide in ASCII text format and the full text of Program Announcements, Requests for Applications, and Notices, is accessible through the NIH Home Page, URL http://www.nih.gov. Select "Grants and Contracts" and then ~Funding Opportunities~ to find the NIH Guide. o INDIVIDUAL ANNOUNCEMENTS AND BACK ISSUES FROM THE LIST ARCHIVES Each mailing distributed via the NIHGDE-L LIST is automatically archived by LISTSERV. All issues after 1/19/90 have been saved with the text of each RFA and PA as a separate document. Retrieving files from the LISTSERV archives is a two step process: a list of the available archive files is obtained by sending an INDEX NIHGDE-L command to listserv@list.nih.gov. These files can then be retrieved by means of a ET NIHGDE-L filetype command or by using the database search facilities of LISTSERV. Send an INFO DATABASE command for more information on the latter. The following is a sample of the INDEX command file information: filename filetype GET PUT -fm lrecl nrecs date time Remarks -------- -------- --- --- --- ----- ----- -------- ----------- NIHGDE-L 90-00027 PRV OWN V 80 969 90/01/18 16:12:44 -> NIH Guide, Vol. 19, No. 3, January 19, 1990 The information for each entry consists of two lines. The first line contains information necessary for retrieval and the beginning of the Remarks, and the second contains the rest of the Remarks. The important information is the number (90-xxxxx) and the Remarks. The Remarks field is the subject line of the mail distributed and shows which documents can be retrieved. The number is the value used in the GET command. To retrieve files, send mail (to listserv@list.nih.gov) that contains one line for each document as follows: GET NIHGDE-L number For example, to get the main body of the NIH Guide for 1/19/90, the mail would contain the line: GET NIHGDE-L 90-00027 The documents referenced in the GET commands will be sent back as files. o ANONYMOUS FTP The NIH Guide is available via anonymous ftp at the NIH Computer Utility. The files contain both the main body of the printed edition of the NIH Guide and the full text of the notices, Program Announcements, and Requests For Applications. The format of the delimited records is slightly different and is explained in the README file. The file names are of the form Gmmddyy, where mmddyy is the month/day/year of the date of the NIH Guide. To access the NIH Guide via Anonymous ftp: ftp to ftp.cu.nih.gov (specify ANONYMOUS as the userid and GUEST as the password) cd nih-eguide All usual ftp commands are available. INQUIRIES For information regarding the production of and obtaining an electronic edition of the NIH Guide, contact: Myra Brockett Office of Extramural Outreach and Information Resources, NIH 6701 Rockledge Drive MSC 7910 Bethesda, MD 20892-7910 Telephone: (301) 435-2801 FAX: (301) 480-8443 Email: asknih@odrockm1.od.nih.gov For matters (subscribe, unsubscribe, and change of address) about a subscription to the printed edition of the NIH Guide, contact: Jahna Stanton Office of Extramural Outreach and Information Resources, NIH 6701 Rockledge Drive MSC 7910 Bethesda, MD 20892-7910 Telephone: (301) 435-2801 FAX: (301) 480-8443 Email: asknih@odrockm1.od.nih.gov For information about the NIH Grant Line Bulletin Board, contact: John C. James, Ph.D. Office of Extramural Outreach and Information Resources Email: JQJ@cu.nih.gov .
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