ASKNIH: NEW EMAIL ADDRESS NIH GUIDE, Volume 26, Number 32, September 26, 1997 National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health has moved ASKNIH email to a new server. Messages sent to the previous email address will be forwarded transparently to the new ASKNIH email address until October 17, 1997. The "From" address in email replies from ASKNIH is the correct new address, which is also provided under INQUIRIES in this notice. Please update email address books, publications, and other relevant materials. DESCRIPTION OF ASKNIH ASKNIH provides general information about the NIH extramural research and research training programs. Application kits and other forms can be obtained from ASKNIH. Inquiries and requests for materials may be submitted by telephone and email. The ASKNIH Exhibits Program brings NIH staff to conferences and meetings of the medical research community. Currently, ASKNIH is handling about 700 "live" telephone inquiries, 400 voice mail messages, and 500 email messages per month and provides an information booth at several national meetings each year. The five ASKNIH staffers have had extensive and varied experience with the NIH extramural grant and fellowship programs. Former and current roles of the ASKNIH staff include trainee, grantee, NIH program administrator, NIH review administrator, program analyst, public affairs specialist, technical writer. The staff receives training for handling ASKNIH inquiries and to ensure that ASKNIH can provide the most up-to-date information possible. Some ways that ASKNIH can help are listed below. o ASKNIH answers general questions about the NIH research and research training programs and the application and review procedures for those awards. o ASKNIH teaches how to find and use needed information from the NIH system of web sites. o For the occasions in which person-to-person contact is helpful, ASKNIH staffers are available by telephone from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays. o When an inquiry is not appropriate for ASKNIH, ASKNIH refers the call or email to the appropriate office. If ASKNIH is not certain of the correct referral, ASKNIH will find the correct office for the inquirer, if desired. o ASKNIH processes voicemail and email orders for forms and publications. For convenience and economy, the NIH strongly encourages the offices of sponsored programs (or equivalent, by any name) of the applicant/awardee organizations and the NIH grants management offices to order forms in quantities sufficient to meet the needs of their organizations for six months or more. Most researchers can obtain application materials locally, from the office of sponsored programs of their employer, or from the Grants Sector (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm) of the NIH system of web sites (http://www.nih.gov), more quickly than by placing an order with ASKNIH. However, if neither the local nor the electronic resource is available to an individual, ASKNIH will process a small order to meet that person's needs. INQUIRIES To use the ASKNIH services: Email: asknih@od.nih.gov Telephone: 301-710-0267 For information about the ASKNIH Exhibits Program: Ms. Judith Grover Division of Extramural Outreach and Information Resources National Institutes of Health Rockledge II, Room 6202 Bethesda, MD 20892-7910 Telephone: 301-435-2801 email: judith_grover@nih.gov For information about ASKNIH: Claudia Blair, Ph.D., Director Division of Extramural Outreach and Information Resources National Institutes of Health Rockledge II, Room 6208 Bethesda, MD 20892-7910 Telephone: 301-435-2801 email: claudia_blair@nih.gov
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