Research Ideas in Print
Article by Jonathan Eldridge from Hypothesis Vol. 15(1)
General Web Resources for Grant Seekers
US Department of Health and Human Services, GrantsNet
"GrantsNet is a tool for finding and exchanging information about HHS and selected other Federal grant programs. It is part of the much-publicized national movement toward providing government resources to the general public in a more accessible and meaningful manner."
Specific Grants and Granting Organizations
MLA Research, Development, and Demonstration Project Grant
"The purpose of this grant is to provide support for research, development, or demonstration projects that will help to promote excellence in the field of health sciences librarianship and information sciences. Grants will not be given to support an activity that is operational in nature or has only local usefullness. More than one award may be granted in a year."National Library of Medicine, Extramural Programs
"Research Support: Grants are available to investigate the management and utilization of biomedical information. Critical research areas include: representation of medical knowledge in computers; organization and retrieval issues for image databases; enhancement of human intellectual capacities through virtual reality, dynamic modeling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning; medical decision-making; linguistic analyses of medical languages and nomenclatures; invest igations of topics relevant to health information or library science; and biotechnology informatics issues. Eligibility: Public or private, non-profit institutions engaged in health-related education, research, or patient care. Support: NLM offers traditional NIH investigator-initiated project grants (RO1) and First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST) awards R29)."National Science Foundation
" The NSF funds research and education in science and engineering, through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. The Foundation accounts for about 20 percent of federal support to academic institutions for basic research. "SLA's Steven I. Goldspiel Memorial Research Fund
"The Steven I. Goldspiel Memorial Research Fund was established in 1991, and named in honor of the former President of Disclosure, Inc.. The purpose of the Fund is to support projects which promote research on and advancement of library sciences, in particular focusing on projects which address the goals identified in SLA's Research Agenda, which encompasses the following topics: Futures; Current/User issues; Measures of Productivity and Value; Client/User Satisfaction Measures; Staffing. "
If you have recommendations for additions to this resource list, please send them to: Jeanne Larsen larsenje@georgetown.edu.