Funding Search Engines and Other Online Resources

• HMSRAML Harvard Medical School Research Administration Mailing List Receive regular updates from SPA on new funding opportunities by signing up to receive HMSRAML, SPA's listserve. These emails will also provide notice of upcoming events, trainings, policies, and other important information.

Federal Search Tools and Online Resources

• RePORT (New)
  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) now has a Web site where information is available about grants and the research they fund. The Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT) now has a "user-friendly system," the RePORT Expenditures and Results, or RePORTER system. "RePORTER combines NIH project databases and funding records, PubMed abstracts, full-text articles from PubMed Central, and information from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with a robust search engine, allowing users to locate descriptions and funding details on NIH-funded projects along with research results that cite the NIH support," the agency said. As of Sept. 1, RePORTER replaced NIH's now-retired CRISP system.
• Acquisition Reform Network (ARNet)
  An enterprise created to foster and propagate measurable breakthrough improvements in the way that government obtains goods and services.
• CDMRP eReceipt Online Proposal Submission System
  Enables applicants to submit proposals electronically over the Internet through a secure connection.
• Code of Federal Regulations
  A codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
• Commerce Business Daily
  Lists notices of proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information.
• CRISP
  Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects database of NIH funded projects in the United States.
• eRA Listserve
  The Office of Extramural Research has established a listserv electronic mailing list to provide periodic updates on its electronic grant application program to scientists and administrators in the biomedical research community.
• Federal Acquisition Regulations
  Etablished to codify uniform policies for acquisition of supplies and services by executive agencies.
• The Federal Information Exchange (FEDIX)
  A free on-line information retrieval service of federal opportunities for the education and research communities.
• FedWorld
  The online locator service for a comprehensive inventory of information disseminated by the Federal Government.
• Library of Congress
  The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.
• Office for Human Research Protections
• Study Sections
  Center for Scientific Review review groups, which provide scientific review of most NIH research grants and fellowships.
• SPIN
  Database of federal and nonfederal funding opportunities, searchable by anyone using a computer with a Harvard Internet Protocol (IP) address.
• Training Grants Information
  Information about intramural and extramural training opportunities

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Non-Federal and All Other Resources

• Community of Science Funding Opportunities (COS)
  The most comprehensive resource of funding information available on the Web, publishes more than 15,000 sources of funding from around the world. It is updated daily.
• The Foundation Center Online
  The mission of the Foundation Center is to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects.
• GrantsNET
  A joint venture of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). It was created as a free resource for those searching for training opportunities in the biomedical Sciences (undergraduate, graduate, Fellows).
• National Research Council Fellowship Office
  Administers the predoctoral, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowship programs of several organizations.

• Funding Resources - A list of search engines and reference sites to research funding opportunities.
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