Getting Grants!

EXTRA!! Do not miss this new federal government links page, FirstGov, for grants, library resources and everything else!
Table of Contents, today's Federal Register , in postscript format.
NSF's Deadlines and Programs
The Federal Trough.
Almost everything federal is here. Look this page over, as well as Grants and Grant Writing.
Eat, drink and be merry!
Also, make use of the Federal Web Locator, an excellent finding resource for all things Federal.

ScienceWise for fine grants information, deadlines, grants announcements and more.

Page Authored by Bill Thayer
[email protected].

A Selection of Bill Thayer's Pages

First Things First! Grants Deadlines
more Deadlines, these from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
and the University of New Hampshire's very comprehensive Office of Sponsored Research Page

Try Texas' Federally Funded Research on the Web.

Excellent Grants Resources from GPO.

Kentucky's very nice Government Information Tool searching GPO Access.

GPO Access.
Federal Register, CBD, CFR, Congressional Record, virtually all federal publications.

R&D from the American Association for the Advancement of Science


Find a Princely Grant for Yourself--kiss, no click, the ugly frog.

Whatever research grants material you do access from this page, don't miss
Resources from the Society of Research Administrators. I can go home now. Sign up for grants here.

A Fine Michigan State University Guide to Library Resources on Grants.

For Foundation grants information and deadlines, search the Philanthrophy News Digest .
Subscribe for a free, e-mailed version of the Digest .

Foundation Center Grants Searching Tool
Anyone searching for grant support would benefit from the use of Foundation Center's
Prospect Worksheet. Try Online Librarian as well.

The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Never miss Texas Research (TRAM) when grants searching; try their Harvest Broker Grants Search Form--the button above. You would pay a lot elsewhere for information available free here. Thanks, Texas A&M!

Sea Grant Media Center.

Next, don't miss Martindale!

and Nonprofits Gateway.


XTRA! XTRA! GovNews! Search Government Newsgroups. Don't miss this!

Try GrantsSelect!

Get a Grant Here! Or, at least an idea of what is available from whom.

Sign up with FEDIX for personalized delivery of grants-available information. Very nice. Try it.

Federal Phone Directories; you may need one!

U. S. Government Telephone Numbers, Blue Pages.

Curious about NSF funded research projects at your institution, or others?

Find Yourself a Grant Opportunity with Bill Thayer's Grants Search Tool! This tool is rudimentary, but it can work well.

OK, so my grants tool didn't work for you. Well, then, try FEDIX. You're sure to find grants funding. There are also very nice grants search tools produced commercially like SPIN and IRIS; more on these subscription services below.

Materials Research Society.

Fundsnet. An excellent funding search resource.

Small Business Page.

Oryx Press on Proposal Writing.

And forms; you'll need forms!

Please, don't miss Jim Martindale's Grants section in his fine electronic Reference Library.

Excellent grants resources from the Medical College of Ohio. Also, try MedWeb's fine grants resources from Emory. Not all medically related by any means.

Government Research Related Web Sites

Special Government Search Tools from the Superintendent of Documents.

I worked for some time in a University Grants Management Office, thus the interest. Check with your own institution's Grants/Research Administration Office for more information on a specific deadline. This list is courtesy of IRIS, Illinois Researcher Information System. Write me at [email protected].

Federal Agencies Information is available, as well as a U. S. Government Web Sites Search Tool. Please also consult the Proposal Writing Page link in my Home Page.
Take a look at my NSF Page for considerable help with National Science Foundation grants information and proposal preparation. Thanks,
Bill Thayer

SPECIALIZED SEARCH PAGES:
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

SEARCH THE FEDERAL REGISTER
via the University of California and GPO Gate.

SEARCH THE GSA CATALOG OF FEDERAL DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE . The Catalog (CFDA) by Subject or Function.

SEARCH COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY (CBD)
via CBDNET.

SEARCH A VARIETY OF GRANTS LOCATIONS
with GALEN II of the University of California, San Francisco.
GALEN's Knowledge Resources adds even more. Some of Galen's resources are limited to UCSF users. The Federal Register is one,
but it is also available from GPO.
Don't miss this University Library's magnificent resources.
Dare I say it's all here? Probably not. But it's almost all here!

SEARCH WITH FEDIX GRANTS SEARCH TOOL

SEARCH WITH GRANTS PROGRAM QUERY
from the University of British Columbia.
A great help in locating grants programs of interest to the researcher.

TRY SPECIALIZED U. S. FEDERAL SEARCH PAGES
Federal Register, CFR, U. S. Budget, CBD, GAO,
Congressional Record, Senate, House, Supreme Court, and more

LOOKING FOR A FEDERAL WEB SITE?

SEARCH THE U. S. CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS

ABOUT THE U. S. CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS
(rule-making by the U. S. Executive Branch)

SEARCH THE U. S. CODE
(law-making by U. S. Congress)

and
INTERNET LAW LIBRARY: RHODE ISLAND, or any other state,
from the fine resource, INTERNET LAW LIBRARY

DEADLINES FROM THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION

A Good Grants Resource

SEARCH PATENT LAW. Examine all of KuesterLaw, the Technology Law Resource. It's excellent.

* The National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Institute of Medicine.
* National Council of Research Administrators' (NCURA) Funding Guide.
* Thomas, U. S. Legislative Information.
* EPA Grants Information
* For grants, try The University of Rochester, with a developing proposal development and forms section.
* Don't neglect Bill Earles' page outlining information resources pertaining to Research Grants.
* Jim Martindale's fine work has an excellent section on grants. Look over the whole Martindale publication, Martindale's The Reference Desk.
* SPIN's Grants Sources, and SPIN's Links to Other Sources
* National Science Foundation's Grants Page
* The Grantsmanship Center is an excellent resource with items like the daily Federal Register grants announcements.
* Grant Alert from the Governor and the State of Texas. Excellent for everyone, including the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. That's us. We may not be as big as Texas, but we have the longest name! Look over recent issues of Grant Alert .
* Harvard's Countway Library Grants Page.
* GrantsNet cannot be overlooked.
* Nor can the definitive Foundation Center. Go directly to the Center's comprehensive grantsmakers' index, or to its fine map of Foundation Center Resources and Services.
* The Internet Non-Profit Center leads to myriad resources related to foundations and similar organizations.
* Certainly, consult GrantsWeb: The Society of Research Administrators' Grants Information Page for excellent grants information of all types--grants, Circulars, regulations, etc.
* Recent grants deadlines are available. This is a fine resource from the University of Missouri, which also provides the excellent Grantsmanship Tools.
* Yahoo's Excellent Grants Page.
* Houston's Funding Futures is worth a look. Among other things, it has the longest URL I've ever seen!
* Baylor's fine grants information page. Don't miss it!
* Texas Research Administration via Rice has Agency Forms and Federal Regulations, amid encyclopedic information resources vital to researchers. Look Rice University over. Their faq regarding downloading agency forms is excellent. What do all those obscure file extensions mean? Rice will tell you!
* Depauw's Guide to Education and Research Funding .
* Oregon State's Funding Opportunities Links
* EurekAlert! has extensive links to peer reviewed journals, institutional web pages, university research magazines, specialized search tools and more.
* Texas A&M's fine Federal Links Page charts links for Agency Forms, RFP's, Points of Contact, Research Interests, Proposal Checklists and Guidelines, and Grants Policy Manuals for each Federal Agency. Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station deserves high praise for unselfishly delivering this information to us all. Well Done! (I hope that phrase is not archaic. It isn't used enough).
* Wayne State University's Current Grants Page. Grants Flash is Wayne State's fine grants deadlines publication. It is a supplement to their excellent Online Grants and Contracts Prospectus .
* Seliger & Associates Grant Writing is an example of a commercial grants writing service. This is informational, not an endorsement.
* There are indexes of grants information for both public and private agencies and foundations. These valuable Pages are ours through the courtesy of the University of Missouri at Columbia.
* Try the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy for grants information and other fine federal government web sites and locator resources.
* Check Missouri's Pages for substantial help in any Web endeavor--understanding the basics, authoring and more. "Sage" is Missouri's well choosen name for its grants office web site.
* European Grants may be of interest.
* Among its resources, Sage maintains a fine sellection of tools for preparing grants.
* Don't miss the U. S. government sanctioned DHHS GrantsNet.
* National Institutes of Health--Grants
* One of my favorites is The Benton Foundation.
* For material things--grants, equipment, etc., try The General Services Administration, GSA.
* Check the Federal Budget, 1998, for trends and more.
* Federal grants regulations, FAR, and many other vital research publications are readily available. Check the Index of Private Foundations and Grants Makers from this resource.
* For nearly exhaustive federal grants information, try the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance.
* Federal Agencies via Wisconsin, River Falls
* Commerce Business Daily is a vital resource for anyone seeking federal funding and regulatory information. Search Today's CBD .
* For important regulatory information, check (regularly!) RAINFO, The Regulatory Affairs Information Homepage, which includes the U. S. Code of Federal Regulations as well as The Federal Register in a variety of locations.
* Always remain curent regarding Federal Agencies, Acquisitions Regulations and Grants Availability. Look over the remarkable FARSite of the Air Force.
* Consider FedWorld for extensive U. S. Federal Government information.
* Certainly check the URL List for Grant Seekers when looking for grants data. That list will lead you to many fine resources.
* You'll also find many more grants search tools and grants related resources on my Home Page.
* Don't overlook Illinois's IRIS grants database with its fine list of upcoming research grants opportunities and deadlines, both open and dated, or the the InfoEd database for grants searchers, SPIN, Sponsored Programs Information Network. Both of these are subscription databases, but some valuable information is free--grants deadlines, for example. You might want to choose some SPIN keyword descriptors matching your grant interests first. Also, dont't forget that many grants-making agencies now have their own Web sites. Their grants programs deadlines with downloadable applications will be available at their sites. Many of the Agencies are linked elsewhere among these pages.
* Further Information on Funding Resources.
* Grants assistance, regulations, the "A" series of Circulars with appropriate hypertext references, and more from the U. S. Department of Labor. Check all the OMB Circulars.
* NIH. Try all of the Community of Science Resources. You may remember it as "BestAmerica."
* If you're a student, check out fastWEB Scholarship Resources.
* And, always, ethics: Responsible Conduct in Research.



Technology Transfer

* Look at Tech Transfer and a grand list of Federal Government Resources, all from the National Technology Transfer Center.
* If you are searching for grants information, Technology Transfer is probably also within your range of interests.
* GPO Access is vital to those searching for U. S. Federal information.
* Review University-based Technology Transfer and other Tech Transfer Resources.
* Look at the Federal Yellow Pages for federal grants information and more.


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