For a detailed walkthrough of setting up SciENcv for the first time, click Home above.
Once you have a SciENcv account, choose the +Create new document link, pictured here. It's in fairly small print so it may be hard to spot on your SciENcv page.
That will take you to a page where you can choose what kind of document you want to create: NSF biosketch, NIH biosketch, NIH fellowship biosketch, IES (Dept of Ed) biosketch, or Current and Pending (Other) Support for either funder.
Choose the source of any reused data that you want to import, such as reusing a previous Biosketch or CPOS page or importing education and employment information from eRA Commons, Research.gov, or ORCID. You can only choose one source for data at this stage, so choose the one that will have the most and most accurate information to serve as the basis of your new Biosketch.
Adding a delegate allows a coordinator, administrator, or research assistant to create and manage content for you.
After logging in to SciENcv, there should be a button with your username in the upper right. Click your username.
From the menu, choose Account Settings.
Scroll down to find the Delegates section. and click Add Delegate.
Enter your delegate's email address in the resulting form, then click Save.
They will receive an automated email asking whether they confirm that they should be delegates on your account.
Be sure you know the correct email to delegate to! A departmental pre-award administrator who has agreed to enter your support information should be added by a shared school / college / departmental research administration unit email instead of individual person's address when possible.
Delegates cannot certify documents. The final document certification stage must be completed by the PI / senior personnel who owns the Biosketch or CPOS document
These directions focus on Zotero, but if you use EndNote, Mendeley, or any other citation manage that can export to .ris format it will work very similarly. When you export or "save as" or download from your citation manager, make sure the format is RIS.
Starting from in your Biosketch, go to the citations/products section and look for the link that references My Bibliography.
You will be taken to a new browser tab or window at the My Bibliography home page.
Click the +Add Citations button, then choose the From a file menu option.
Navigate to where you saved the RIS file that you created earlier, and choose that file.
After a moment, the citations that were exported from Zotero to the RIS file should appear in your My Bibliography lsit. Please take a moment to check that the entries came in accurately! Any abbreviations, unusual formatting, or typos that were in your Zotero will be imported into the My Bibliography list and will carry through to your Biosketch if inserted there, so cleaning the citations is important.
You can now close this tab to return to where you were in your BIosketch, or use the button with your username to return to your dashboard. You may need to refresh the page or save and exit the biosketch then come back in before the My Bibliography list shows up with your new options added.
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