Accessing the List of My Assigned Applications

Before accessing applications, you must sign the confidentiality agreement (refer to the topic titled Confidentiality Agreement) and certify the Pre-Meeting Conflict of Interest form. If you do not, an alert appears reminding you to perform these actions.

To view the List of My Assigned Applications screen:

1. Log into eRA Commons and click Internet Assisted Review button on the landing page.
   

You can also access IAR from the apps icon in the upper left corner and selecting Internet Assisted Review from the drop-down menu.



2. The List of Meetings screen displays. If accessible, the View List of Applications link is displayed by clicking on the three-dot ellipses icon. Click the View List of Applications link.

   

3. By default, the List of My Assigned Applications screen is displayed. In later phases of the meeting, IAR provides access via this screen for viewing all applications in the meeting if the SRO* has opened the meeting for unassigned critiques. (click to view the List of My Assigned Applications screen)

   

To view all applications in the meeting, click the "Show only Assigned Applications" switch to the off position.

Required Review Integrity and Bias Awareness Training

Reviewers are required to complete two training modules prior to accessing their assigned applications in IAR. This requirement is effective in early 2024 and beyond. Reviewers who have not completed these trainings cannot access their applications for the early 2024 meetings. See NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-23-156.

Each of the two modules is approximately 30 minutes in length, and when completed, the training status is updated automatically in real time.

• “Review Integrity” module — raises awareness of actions that breach review integrity and provides tools to prevent and report them.
• “Bias Awareness and Mitigation” module — raises awareness of potential biases in the peer review process and provides strategies to mitigate them.

If a reviewer has not complete the training prior to being added to a roster, they receive a system-generated email from nihreviewertraining@csr.nih.gov with a customized link to the c.

If a reviewer has not completed the training and they are invited to the Recruitment or Submit Phase in IAR, the email with the link to the NIH Reviewer Training website comes from either IAR or Peer Review, depending where the invitation was initiated.

If a reviewer has not completed the training and they log into IAR to access their list of assigned applications, they are presented with a message on the List of Meetings screen after certifying their Confidentiality Agreement.

Steps to Take Before Accessing the NIH Reviewer Training Website

Before accessing the training portal, reviewers will need to have completed the process of logging into eRA Commons with their Login.gov credentials and associating their Login.gov credentials with their eRA Commons username and password (a one-time association). Using Login.gov's two-factor authentication system is required for accessing IAR.

Reviewers need 2 sets of credentials (username and password) to use Login.gov to access eRA Commons, and thus IAR:

• one for Login.gov and
• the other for their eRA Commons account.

Reviewers begin the process on the eRA Commons login screen, by clicking on the Login.gov logo on the upper left-hand side of the screen.

Reviewers provide the same Login.gov credentials that they used for eRA Commons, as well as their Commons user ID when accessing the NIH Reviewer Training website.

NOTE: Scientific review officers (SROs) track if reviewers have completed the training by going to the Control Center screen in IAR or the Recruitment Control Center screen in Peer Review. A new column labeled ‘Training Completed’ displays ‘Yes’ if reviewers have taken the training and ‘No’ if they have not. A ‘No’ allows a reviewer to complete the Recruitment phase but the training must be completed before the reviewer can access their assigned applications in the Submit phase.