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Finding What You Need on Finding What You Need on the Internet:the Internet:
Celia M. ElliottDepartment of Physics
University of [email protected]
Copyright © 2004 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
ProspectiveProspectiveCollaboratorsCollaborators
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Goals for this sessionGoals for this sessionLearn to use the NIH and other databases
to identify prospective collaboratorsLearn how to find contact information for
American scientists at universities and national laboratories
Learn how to use the Thomas Register to identify prospective commercial partners and find contact information for companies
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Finding a prospective scientific Finding a prospective scientific collaborator is a threecollaborator is a three--step processstep process
Step 1: Find out who is doing similar work
Step 2: Get an address
Step 3: Write and ask
Step 1: Who’s doing similar work?Step 1: Who’s doing similar work?
Check the technical literature
Explore databases of funded projects
Review conference programs
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Use the same technicalUse the same technical--literature literature resources, but this time get authors’ resources, but this time get authors’ names and affiliations names and affiliations
Journal articlesTechnical reportsePrint serversAbstract databasesDissertation databases
Anybody who published a technicalAnybody who published a technicalpaper is a prospective collaboratorpaper is a prospective collaborator——find someone whose work is mostfind someone whose work is mostclosely related to your ownclosely related to your own
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You’ve found an interesting paper, You’ve found an interesting paper, and the author might be a and the author might be a prospective collaboratorprospective collaborator
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Type the author’s name and Type the author’s name and affiliation into affiliation into GoogleGoogle
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Use the NIH CRISP database to find Use the NIH CRISP database to find prospective collaboratorsprospective collaboratorsGet PI names, titles, and affiliationsRead abstracts of funded projectsDifferentiate between currently funded
projects and completed projectsGo to http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/ and click on
the “Go to the CRISP query form” button
Type keywords into the “Enter search terms” field
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Searching tips for CRISPSearching tips for CRISP——web web math doesnmath doesn’’t workt work
The % is symbol is a wildcard; use to expand the keyword search
sodium ion channel
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Congratulations! You’ve found Congratulations! You’ve found 198 projects!198 projects!
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Two other government databases can Two other government databases can help you find prospective collaboratorshelp you find prospective collaboratorsNational Science Foundationhttp://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/index.jsp
The NSF does not fund medical research or any research associated with human disease; it does fund basic biological, biochemical, biophysical, and bioengineering research
Biological and Environmental Research/DOEhttp://www.osti.gov/oberabstracts/index.jsp
The DOE supports research at the national laboratories and at universities on environmental and biomedical topics
National Science FoundationNational Science Foundationhttp://http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/index.jspwww.nsf.gov/awardsearch/index.jsp
sodium ion channel
* is the wildcard
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Congratulations! You’ve found Congratulations! You’ve found 11 projects11 projects
Most NSF projects arefunded for three years
The award summary gives The award summary gives information about the grantinformation about the grant
PI’s name, email, and institution
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Scroll down for the abstractScroll down for the abstract
Biolog. and Environmental Researchhttp://http://www.osti.gov/oberabstracts/index.jspwww.osti.gov/oberabstracts/index.jsp
Can search in title, PI, F/Y, or institution
sodium ion channel
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AAAAACK! No results!
OBER funds research primarily on carbon sequestration, climate change, and environmental remediation science
http://www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/ober_top.html
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The two dissertation repositories can The two dissertation repositories can be a source of prospective partnersbe a source of prospective partners
Center for Research Librarieshttp://www.crl.edu/catalog/index.htm
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Type the author’s name into Type the author’s name into GoogleGoogle
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Conference programs are a source Conference programs are a source of prospective collaboratorsof prospective collaborators
Some websites maintain conference calendars
FASEB conference calendarhttp://www.faseb.org/meetings/default.htm
Check webpages of professional societies for “meetings”http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/subjects_soc.html
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Using a conference program to Using a conference program to identify a prospective collaboratoridentify a prospective collaborator
Speakers
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Step 2: You’ve identified a Step 2: You’ve identified a prospective collaborator, now prospective collaborator, now how do you find his address?how do you find his address?
Use the web to obtain email and Use the web to obtain email and postal addresses of collaboratorspostal addresses of collaborators
Most US universities and national labs have directories of the people who work there
Look for “Directories,” “Staff,” “Phone Book,” “Faculty” (at universities), “Employee Locator” (at national labs)
Type in the surname only of the person you wish to find
Directory of U.S. universitieshttp://www.google.com/options/universities.html
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URLs for US national labs are intuitiveURLs for US national labs are intuitiveLawrence Livermore National Laboratory
http://www.llnl.govOak Ridge National Laboratory
http://www.ornl.govBrookhaven National Laboratory
http://www.bnl.govArgonne National Laboratory
http://www.anl.govLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://www.lbl.govPacific Northwest National Laboratory
http://www.pnl.gov
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Use the “directories” to find peopleUse the “directories” to find peopleat the national laboratoriesat the national laboratories
Find “Phone Book”
Submit “Query”
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Use the science pages at the Use the science pages at the national labs, toonational labs, too
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Finding Elizabeth Robertsonat Harvard
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Faculty directory
Enter surname
http://www.harvard.edu
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Use the Thomas Register to Use the Thomas Register to identify prospective commercial identify prospective commercial partners and find company contact partners and find company contact informationinformation
US equipment manufacturershttp://www.thomasregister.com/
European equipment manufacturershttp://www.tremnet.com/
Must “register” to search, but it is free of charge
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First you must register and logFirst you must register and log--inin
Type in keywords
water pollution co
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View the “results”View the “results”
494 prospective partners!!
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Check other Internet resourcesCheck other Internet resourcesU.S. companies seeking long-term FSU
commercial partners (in Russian)http://bisnis-eurasia.org/
Practical advice from CRDFhttp://www.crdf.org/Industry/findpartners.html
Information about larger U.S. companies (financial data, products, competitors, locations, patents)http://www.hoovers.com/
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Step 3: You’ve identified a Step 3: You’ve identified a possible collaborator and possible collaborator and found his address. Now what found his address. Now what do you say?do you say?
Stay tuned…Stay tuned…
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Let’s review what we’ve learned…Let’s review what we’ve learned…How to use the NIH, NSF, and OBER
databases to find collaboratorsHow to use meeting programsHow to find contact information for
American scientists working at universities or the national laboratories
How to use the Thomas Register to find prospective commercial partners and contact information for U.S. companies
Other sources of information for business collaborations