Find registration instructions for the systems required by particular sponsors below.
Before applying for many federal funding opportunities, you will need to register for a Workspace account with Grants.gov.
Once you add PSU to your profile, ORAC will receive an email asking to affiliate you with PSU. You can then be granted Manage Workspace rights and then create a workspace.
Research.gov and Fastlane are used to conduct NSF business. As of Fall 2022, Research.gov has replaced Fastlane.
To use Research.gov, PSU faculty and staff need to register and be affiliated. Your account on Research.gov can be used to log into Fastlane.
eRA Commons and ASSIST are used to submit proposals and communicate with the NIH for sponsored research projects.
To use the NIH Commons, PSU faculty and staff first need to register and have a password assigned.
Some of the current features of NIH eRA Commons /ASSIST are: