About Account Management
Welcome to the About Account Management page. The new account management functionality will enable the user to centrally sign into NSF systems to perform proposal and award activities. Below you will find user guide PDFs and videos that will walk you through from establishing an NSF account to performing administrative functions for your organization.
Video Tutorials
Below are step-by-step video tutorials on how to use the new account management functionality:
Register for a New NSF Account
Add a New Role
View and Edit Your NSF Account & Role Information
Migrate Your Existing NSF Account
Register a New Organization with NSF
Provide Reviewer Profile Information
Frequently Asked Questions
To see a list of frequently asked questions and their answers, download the PDF below.
Frequently Asked Questions - Account Management Guide
Your NSF Account
To submit or review proposals for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and conduct other award-related activities using NSF systems, you must have an NSF ID. This ID is a unique numerical identifier assigned to users by NSF through the registration process outlined below. For reviewers and meeting participants, scroll down for additional resources. For step by step information on how to create, view, and edit your account information, download the PDFs below.
Register for a New NSF Account - Account Management Guide
View and Edit my NSF Account Profile Information - Account Management Guide
Navigation
The Account Management system includes pages for Administrators to manage user and organization information and pages for users to self-manage their roles and profile information. For step by step information on how to navigate the new pages, download the PDF below.
Navigating the Account Management Links - Account Management Guide
Register a New Organization
Organizations must be registered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to submit proposals using NSF’s systems. Before a new organization can register with NSF, it must first be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM - https://www.sam.gov) and have a Unique Entity Identifier(UEI). For step by step information on how to register a new organization, download the PDF below.
Register a New Organization - Account Management Guide
Add a New Organizational Role
To work on proposal and award activities on National Science Foundation (NSF) systems, a user must have an organization-approved role at an organization registered with NSF. After requesting a role, your organization’s Administrator will receive the request electronically to approve or disapprove it. For step by step information on how to add a new role, download the PDF below.
Add a New Organizational Role - Account Management Guide
Add a New Organization-Approved Role - Principal Investigator PI/Co-PI - Account Management Guide
Add a New Organizational Role - Proposed Postdoctoral Fellow - Account Management Guide
View My Organizational Roles
The View My Roles page shows the roles you have requested with pending approval or disapproval from your organization’s administrator as well as your existing approved roles. You may view Organization Contact(s) and also edit your organization contact information. For step by step information on how to view requested roles or view your active roles, download the PDF below.
View My Organizational Roles - Requested Role(s) - Account Management Guide
View My Organizational Roles - Active Role(s) - Account Management Guide
View My Users
The View My Users page is a dashboard for the organization Administrator to view the organization’s pending role requests and manage user tables. Via this dashboard, the Administrator is able to approve or disapprove role requests, add or remove current user roles, add current NSF users to the organization, invite users to create NSF accounts, and invite current users to update their profile information. For step by step instructions on how to manage your users, download the PDF below.
View My Users – Administrator Dashboard - Account Management Guide
Migrate Your Existing NSF Account
To migrate your existing NSF account to NSF’s new account management system, you must verify your account’s primary email address and phone number. If you created your NSF account before 2018 and your email address is associated with more than one NSF account, you will be prompted to verify information. For more information about verifying your account information, download the PDF below.
Migrate Your Existing NSF Account - Account Management Guide
Provide Reviewer Profile Information
For meetings created after March 24, 2023, NSF requires all reviewers and participants in panels, site visits, advisory committees, subcommittees, and committees of visitors to have an NSF account in Research.gov and complete the one-time process to provide their Reviewer Profile information. This must be done before meeting registration can be completed in the FastLane Travel & Reimbursement System. For step by step information on how to provide your Reviewer Profile information, download the PDF below.
Provide Reviewer Profile Information - Account Management Guide
View and Edit My NSF Reviewer Account Profile Information
Once you have an NSF account and completed the one-time process to provide your Reviewer Profile information, you can view and edit your account profile information at any time via the View/Edit My Profile page. For step by step information on how to update your account information including contact information, demographic information, and professional information, download the PDF below.
View and Edit My NSF Reviewer Account Profile Information - Account Management Guide
View My Reviewer/Meeting Participant Information
The View My Roles page shows the organizational roles you have requested that are pending approval or disapproval from your organization’s Administrator as well as your existing approved roles. Individuals who are reviewers will also see reviewer/meeting participant information including reviewer organizational affiliations displayed on this page. For step by step information on how to view reviewer/meeting participant information, download the PDF below.
View My Reviewer/Meeting Participant Information - Account Management Guide
