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  Grants Resource Guide

Overview

VCU Libraries provides services and resources to assist researchers writing grant proposals.  Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences offers a broad range of Reference Services for VCU investigators such as individual consultations by appointment to assist in the development of search strategies and the selection of appropriate databases.  A literature search service is also available to VCU students, faculty, and staff.

VCU RESOURCES FOR Grant SEEKERS

VCU Office of Research
The VCU Office of Research provides definitive information and resources for VCU grant seekers

    VCU Research Compliance Matrix
This matrix was developed to facilitate the responsible conduct of research at VCU by providing VCU investigators with a single point of access for policy information, education & training programs, forms & submission processes, and more.

 

Selected VCU Centers, Institutes and other VCU research initiatives:

• Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR)
  Research Incubator
• Clinical Research Center for Periodontal Diseases
• Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis
• General Clinical Research Center
• Institute of Women's Health Research Program
• Statistical Consulting at VCU
• Virginia Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network (ACORN)
  A statewide practice-based research network developed and operated by the VCU Department of Family Medicine
  Grant Generating Project
• Tompkins McCaw Library Research and Reference Services
  The Library supports research at VCU by providing consultations on the development of search strategies and the selection of databases.

FUNDING sEARCH TOOLS

• SPIN For automated searches, please click here to request a VCUeRA account.
• Community of Science
• Grants.gov
• The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• CRISP - Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (a database to locate previously awarded projects) As of Sept. 1, 2009, the CRISP system will no longer be supported and will become unavailable in the Fall of 2009.  The CRISP system has been replaced by the RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) query tool.
• GrantsNet - US Department of Health and Human Services
• GrantsWeb
• NIH Extramural Data Book 2007
• NIH RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) query tool. This new tool retains all of the features of CRISP while providing additional query fields, hit lists that can be sorted and downloaded to Excel, NIH funding for each project (expenditures), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results). 

FUNDING SOURCES

Federal

• NIH Office of Extramural Research - Guide for Grants & Contracts
• U.S. Department of Education
• U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• U.S. Centers for Disease Control
• U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• National Science Foundation

Foundations, Organizations, etc.

• The Foundation Center
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• The Research Program of the American Cancer Society
• Virginia Health Care Foundation
• W. K. Kellogg Foundation
• See VCU Office of Research for more funding opportunities

Newsgroups and Listservs

• Research Administrators Discussion Group
  Research Administrators Discussion Group: This is a very active list. To subscribe to the Research Administrators Discussion Group send an e-mail message to listserv@albnydh2.bitnet. The body of the message should be blank, except for the following:
      Subscribe RESADM-L Your Name  
• National Science Foundation Grants Bulletin Board
  National Science Foundation Grants Bulletin Board. GRANTS is a mailing list for the discussion of topics related to NSF Grants. As a service to Grants readers, informative messages such as summaries of new program announcements, the NSF Bulletin, and other items of interest are periodically posted. To get on or off the list, or for additional information about the list, send a message to grants-request@nsf.gov.

Books in the VCU Libraries

Here is a selection of grant- writing related books owned by VCU Libraries. These books can be found by searching the VCU Libraries Catalog

Writing the NIH grant proposal: a step-by-step guide - RA11.D6 G47 2006

Grant application writer's handbook [electronic resource and print] - R853.P75 R439 2005

Guide to effective grant writing : how to write an effective NIH grant application - RA11.D6 Y36 2005

Successful grant writing : strategies for health and human service professionals - HV41.2 .G58 2004

Grant writing tips for nurses and other health professionals - RT73.K46 2001

Grant seeker's budget toolkit [electronic resource] - HG177 .Q53 2001eb

Directories in the VCU Libraries

A selection of grant-writing directories available in the VCU Libraries

National guide to funding in health - RA410.A1 N37 2003

Directory of biomedical and health care grants - R850.A1 D57 2003

The Foundation directory - AS911.A2 F771 2007

 

More directories are available at the VCU James Branch Cabell Library and can be searched through the VCU Libraries Catalog

The following subject headings may be used to search for grant related directories and books:

• Fund raising
• Proposal writing for grants
• Foundations
• Research support
• Medical research grants