Tools for finding Research
Funding Opportunities
Professor John Marshall
Director
Academic Research Development
CREDO workshop: 31st May 2011
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Opportunity: A favourable occasion
for grasping a disappointment
Ambrose Bierce
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin
again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
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Tools for finding research funding:
1. Research Professional
2. Research Funding body e-alerts,
RSS feeds and iGoogle
3. CORDIS – EU research funding
tool
4. Discover – news articles
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RESEARCH FORTNIGHT
Research Fortnight is the UK’s leading independent
source of news, analysis, funding opportunities and
jobs for the
academic research community.
Available fortnightly in print and daily online,
Research Fortnight has been published
continuously since 1994.
GCU has an online subscription – find out more at:
http://www.researchprofessional.com/#main$.Data.1
059977$preview$1059781$aspect$Article$
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RESEARCH PROFESSIONAL
What is it?
Research Professional is our online platform for institutional
access. As an institution you can subscribe to any of our
global online research news and funding databases, and
receive all your content through one single platform.
Access research professional at GCU from your desktop (no
sign in required)
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RESEARCH PROFESSIONAL
What does the GCU subsctiption give us?
Research News searching capability
Research Funding searching capability
Research Fortnight articles
Research Europe news
Subscriber email alerts
On-line tutorials and videos on how to use the tool
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RESEARCH PROFESSIONAL WEBSITE DEMO
At: http://www.researchprofessional.com/login.html
Off campus open access mode – no log in required
User personal account for saving searches and other items
Register for email alerts for your own area of interest
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Research Professional system
tutorials – available on line – an
example:
How do I...
Set up an email alert?
Set up an email alert based on an
institutional search?
Subscribe to a magazine?
Edit my user profile?
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What is an RSS feed? (Really Simple Syndication)
News feeds help: no need to spend time checking
websites for updates - have the updates come to you !
RSS feeds provide frequently updated content published
by a website. They are commonly used for news and
blog websites, but are also used for distributing other
types of digital content, including pictures, audio, or
video.
A feed can have the same content as a webpage, but it's
often formatted differently. When you subscribe,
Internet Explorer automatically checks the website and
downloads new content so you can see what is new
since you last visited the feed.
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How can I view my subscribed RSS feeds?
You view feeds on the Feeds tab in the Favorites
Center. To view your feeds, click the Favorites
button, and then click Feeds.
Can other programs display my subscribed
RSS feeds?
Yes, Internet Explorer provides the Common
Feed List to other programs. This allows you to
subscribe to feeds with Internet Explorer and read
them in other programs, such as an email
program or a web based newsreader such as
iGoogle.
You may also access them via e.g. Facebook,
Twitter, or Youtube if supported by the funder.
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i- GOOGLE WEB NEWS READER/RSS feeds
Customise your homepage with funding alert
information updated automatically by major research funders
such as BBSRC, AHRC, ESRC, EPSRC, MRC, NERC,
Wellcome Trust, NIHR, and TSB
Find out more at:
http://www.google.com/help/ig/hp/
http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/
Follow RCUK RSS feeds on twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/research_uk
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EU FUNDING : CORDIS SEARCH (1)
CORDIS Wire
This service gives you access to information sent to
us by European innovation and research stakeholders.
CORDIS Express
Receive by email a weekly briefing on European
Research and innovation.
RESEARCH.EU
Locate EU research publications
See:
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&
ACTION=D&RCN=32898
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EU FUNDING : CORDIS (2)
Partners Service
Enter your company profile into the CORDIS Partners database for
potential collaboration in EU programmes and beyond. You "own"
your record(s) and you can update them whenever needed.
Results Service
The Results Service publishes information about exploitable results
of research and development in a wide range of fields.
DOCMAIL
No need to download large documents from the CORDIS
Document Library. Have them sent to you by e-mail!
Register for CORDIS at:
https://cordis.europa.eu/sur/index.cfm?fuseaction=
Reg.UserRegistration&langID=en_GB
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GCU library search tool at:
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/index.html
Find articles and news stories related to research funding
With Summon, a "unified discovery
service," Serials Solutions has set its sights
on the holy grail of library resource
interfaces: a true one-box search, collecting
article-level results from electronic
resources with local catalog holdings into a
single integrated results list.
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Any questions ?
Workshop session:
Split into 2 groups to look at :
a) Research professional
b) RSS feeds
20 minutes on each system
and then swap over
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