Query, View and Report (QVR)

What is the purpose?

Looking to identify potential reviewers? Or intrigued by a scientific paper and want to find out if NIH funds such research? Maybe you want available data on sites and collaborators in foreign countries? The Query/View/Report (QVR) System is a tool that lets you search, view and retrieve detailed information about grant applications and awards.

The QVR system integrates information from IMPAC II (database of information on extramural applications and awards), the NIH Data Warehouse (database of financial obligations) and NLM's PubMed (database of indexed journals citations and abstracts).

What are the features of QVR?

  • Provides a series of preformatted reports for most business areas - Receipt and Referral, Scientific Review, Grants Management, Scientific Programs, Budget, Training and other areas.
  • Acts as a portal for viewing a variety of research and research training applications and awards from IMPAC II, including:
    • Current data (last 7 calendar years)
    • Historical data (back to 1970)
    • Fiscal Year-end (FY) frozen records (called Pub files) (starting in FY 2002)
    • NIH Annual Intramural Project reports (from the last closed FY and before)
    • Grant-related and PI-related publications in PubMed
  • Finds scientifically similar projects related to one or more targeted grants or manually entered text (such as from a publication or program announcement) using the various LIKE functionalities in QVR, or querying the RCDC Categorization data.
  • Searches and downloads information on people involved with IMPACII grants as investigators, key personnel, participants, or reviewers.
  • Searches and downloads data on sites and collaborators in foreign countries as tracked using the Foreign Application and Component Tracking System (FACTS)
  • Allows access to broader extramural obligation data from the NIH Data Warehouse for grants, contracts, interagency agreements, taps, etc.
  • Provides information on grant awards by the National Science Foundation (NSF) on the basis of the name of an individual selected in the QVR system

What are the benefits?

QVR provides integrated access to query, view, and report from multiple systems through a user-friendly interface. The QVR team uses a modern agile-development process that allows the system to respond to the needs of the user community very rapidly. A wide range of self-training tools and tutorials are available to users once they access the system.

Who can use the QVR system?

The QVR system is designed for extramural staff at the NIH as well as other HHS/federal agencies using the eRA IMPAC II system.  NIH or agency log-in credentials are required to access the system.