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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