Dr Liesl Osman Research Development AdvisorNuffield Department of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Oxford September 2009

Web tools for finding funding in medical research

Search engines

Researchresearch.com: the online research funding opportunities information service to which the University subscribes. http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/rso/findfunding/

RDInfo: free search engine sponsored by the UK National Institute of Health Research supporting researchers in health and social care .

http://www.rdinfo.org.uk/

Using Researchresearch.com to search for funding for DPhil training for a UK clinician

Go to home page of researchresearch.com Select funding tab, top left corner Then select funding search tab, top left corner

next page and enter search criteria

Using Researchresearch.com to search for funding for DPhil training for a UK clinician

Set DISCIPLINE →”is exact or narrower” → select Rodman Index → Biomedical sciences

Set → AND NOT→ full text →contains → NIH Or SET → AND → SPONSOR COUNTRY →UK

Set → AWARD TYPE → predoctoral fellowship , predoctoral training fellowship

How many calls?? Do they include calls identified on the following slide?

Finding small grant funding

SMALL GRANTS

Set DISCIPLINE →”is exact or narrower” → select Rodman Index → Biomedical sciences

Set → AND NOT→ full text →contains → NIH Or SET → AND → SPONSOR COUNTRY →UK

Set → AWARD TYPE → directed grants

How many calls? How would you filter?

Other web tools for finding funding

RD Info

http://www.rdinfo.org.uk/Default.aspNIHR (National Institute of Health Research) UK

This can be used 1. for searches for UK and international funding

2. As the basis for an RSS feed of calls put on the web by funders

RDInfo – All biomed funders without international sources – allows quick skim read

RD Info search using criteria to focus search

Adding an RSS feed link

What an RSS Feed looks like on your screen

To set up any RSS feed you need to first down load a Feed Reader

Download Feedreader

http://www.feedreader.com/

Click on the RSS icon on the page you want a feed from.

Copy the http address of the feed

Paste it into the “new feed” box brought up from the Feedreader menu.

Finally ………………… you will have a feed on your screen giving daily links to new funding opportunities