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University of Nebraska Medical Center

Research Resources

Supporting Researchers

Research faculty within the Internal Medicine Department have access to services, cores and support within the department and across UNMC.

  • Electronic Health Data Access
    • Purnima Guda, PhD, can provide data request assistance to trainees and faculty who need Electronic Health data for their research using UNMC EPIC data.
  • Pre- and Post-Award Assistance
    • Services can include budget development, communication with Sponsored Programs Administration, application submission, help with Just-in-Time submission, progress reports, and VA Intergovernmental Personnel Agreements (IPAs), among others.
Research Electronic Data Capture is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. The UNMC Research REDCap is HIPAA-compliant and should be used to collect scientific research (including PHI) and general survey data. It is specifically geared to support online or offline data capture for research studies and operations. However, the UNMC research REDCap is not suitable for patient care related activities.
The UNMC Vice Chancellor for Research Office provides core facilities and services.
Biobanks are available to Internal Medicine researchers.

Common Form Training

Notice from the NIH
  • If you don’t have an ORCID or don’t know if you have an ORCID, check and sign up if needed. Go to ORCID online and enter your name into the Search ORCID registry box.
  • If you have an ORCID, great; if not, let’s sign up. Click on the “Sign in/Register" link. Click on Register Now and follow the steps.
  • eRA Commons IDs are required. If you don’t know if you have one, email our Sponsored Programs Administration at spadmin@unmc.edu. SPA can check, and if you don’t have one, SPA will get you one.
  • There will be an email exchange, including one that includes instructions.
  • Next, link your eRA Commons ID to your ORCID. Log into your eRA Commons. Click on the top left corner and select “Personal Profile.” 
  • Then, click on Create or Connect your ORCID and follow the instructions.
  • If you already have an eRA Commons or NSF account, NCBI advises you use it to create your NCBI account.
  • Log in to your NCBI account. Click your username, which is located on the top right of the browser page.
  • Select "Account settings". On this page, lots of things can happen. First, click on Add Account beneath Linked Accounts.
  • From the NCBI homepage, select Dashboard. Select the link that says "Click here to create a new CV" then click on the add a new document button.

  • There is a box to enter the document name and drop down to select document type. Then hit the radio for which data source you are using. Usually, people start blank. The first time through, there is a lot data entry.

  • The three radio buttons are:
    • Use an external source
    • Use an exiting document in SciENcv
    • Start with a blank document

  • When you start with a blank document, you can edit your Identifying Information and then add in:

    • Professional Preparation

    • Appointments and Positions

    • Products

  • Once you have completed all sections of the biosketch and the biosketch supplement, you must ‘certify’ the document. Click on the “Download PDF” button and you will be able to certify and then download the document. (Once you complete all the sections, ‘download pdf’ turns blue.)

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