NLM Administrative Supplements for Informationist Services in NIH-funded Research Projects (Admin Supp) (PA-17-090)

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Purpose

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) and other participating NIH Institutes and Centers solicit applications for administrative supplements to eligible NIH awardees with active R01 grants and, depending on each participating Institute or Center's preferences, with active P40, P51, U42, U54, R01, R21, and R24 grants. The purposes of this administrative supplement program are (1) to enhance collaborative, multi-disciplinary basic and clinical research by integrating an information specialist into the research team in order to improve the capture, storage, organization, management, integration, presentation and dissemination of biomedical research data; and (2) to assess the impact of the informationist’s participation.

The Funding Opportunity Announcement(FOA) encourages eligible NIH awardees as described above, who are interested in integrating an informationist into their research teams for the above-stated purposes to begin to consider applying for this new FOA. Interested eligible awardees are encouraged to begin seeking collaborative arrangements with informationists at their institutions or another institution as appropriate. Informationists are information specialists, usually health sciences librarians, who have graduate training and practical experience that provides them with disciplinary background in biomedical, behavioral or biological sciences and in library and information sciences/informatics. Their cross training provides informationists with a unique perspective on the acquisition, synthesis, management and use of information in research. Informationists work as team members with research scientists and health professionals, and are sometimes called in-context or ‘embedded’ information specialists.

NLM Contact

Dr. Alan VanBiervliet, alan.vanbiervliet@nih.gov
For contact information for participating Institutes and Centers see the FOA.

2015 MLA Presentation

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Previous Awards

Eleven awards were made in 2014. View Awards.
Eight awards were made in 2012. View Awards.

Deadline

Deadline for Applications - March 15, 2017, by 5:00pm local time of applicant organization. 
This program expires March 16, 2017.

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