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