• General Support for Competitive Proposals
• Finding Links and Opportunities
• Grant Proposal Writing Resources:
  • Clinical Trials
  • Writing Tools
  • Books available in the Dartmouth Libraries

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General Support for Competitive Proposals

Dartmouth College Office of Sponsored Projects
The Office of Sponsored Projects serves as a central resource to support the research enterprise by providing guidance and stewardship for the research community and the College. The comprehensive web site includes links to policies and procedures, grant-related news and bulletins, funding opportunities, resources for managing projects, information for proposal preparation, manuals, and much more.

National Institutes of Health - Office of Extramural Research
Includes information about NIH medical and behavioral research grant policies, guidelines, and funding opportunities. Includes linkes to the NIH Guide, NIH Roadmap Initiatives, NIH forms and applications, submission dates and deadlines, Electronic Research Administration (eRA), grants news flashes, and more much.

Dartmouth College Biomedical Libraries
The mission of the Biomedical Libraries is to provide health and life sciences information resources and services that support research and scholarship, education, and patient-care activities of Dartmouth Medical School, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), and Dartmouth College. Services and resources available to support grant preparation, including in-depth research support, comprehensive education programs, and delivery of information and literature directly to users' computers.

Resources for New Investigators
From the National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research. Includes help with the application process, including links to information from various NIH agencies including new investigator advice, grants tutorials, overview of the grants application process, tips for new NIH grant applicants, support for new investigators, "everything you wanted to know about the NCI Grants Process", and peer review policies and issues.

Next Wave, from Science
Science's Next Wave is a weekly online publication that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market. The Next Wave is published by SCIENCE magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Includes online guidance for preparing R01 (research) applications.

Funding Links and Opportunities

NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts
From the National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research. The NIH Guide, published weekly, is the official publication for NIH medical and behavioral research grant policies, guidelines and funding opportunities. Users may subscribe to the weekly e-mail LISTSERV Table of Contents (TOC).

NSF e-Bulletin
A daily web-based edition of announcements of upcoming grant proposal due dates, arranged by program area. MyNSF allows you to receive notifications about new content posted on the NSF website. Notification can be received via email or RSS.

IRIS
The IRIS -- Illinois Researcher Information Service-- Database contains information on over 8,600 funding opportunities from almost 2,000 sponsors and funding agencies. Using IRIS saves you the trouble of having to search dozens of sites on the Internet to find funding opportunities that meet your needs. You can search the IRIS Database for funding opportunities in every field from agriculture to zoology, or view upcoming deadlines in 25 subject areas. You can also receive automatic email notifications of new grant opportunities as they are posted to the site through the IRIS Alert Service and create electronic bios and search for colleagues in your field with the IRIS Expertise Service.
Note: Access is limited to the Dartmouth community.

COS
Community of Science (COS) is a resource for finding information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines. COS allows you to find funding, by searching more than 22,000 records representing nearly 400,000 opportunities, worth over $33 billion; identify experts and collaborators , bysearching among 500,000 profiles of researchers from 1,600 institutions throughout the world, discovering who's doing what, current research activity, funding received, publications, patents, new positions and more; and promote your research with a COS Profile, byshowcasing your research and expertise among researchers and scholars from universities, corporations and nonprofits in more than 170 countries.
Note: Access is limited to the Dartmouth community.

Chronicle of Higher Education Online
Includes section on "New Grant Competitions" and links to online funding sources, both government and private. Also highlights grant-related news and training opportunities. Some information requires a subscription.
Note: Access is limited to the Dartmouth community.

Foundation Directory Online
A searchable database for finding current and comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. The information is updated weekly.
Note: Access is limited to the Dartmouth community.

GrantsNet
A freely available, one-stop resource to find funds for training in the sciences and undergraduate science education. Includes links to funding sources, funding news, discussion forums, “Ask the GrantDoctor,” and a “GrantsNet Express” feature for being updated on weekly on funding opportunities.

Intramural Funding Sources (DHMC, DMS, NCCC)
This Microsoft Word document includes information about in-house funding resources from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Medical School, and the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Includes name of funding source, contact person, fundable topic area, eligibility, funding amounts, funding time frame, and application deadlines.

Grant Proposal Writing Resources:

Clinical Trials

Dartmouth Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS)
CPHS is the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Dartmouth College- a federally mandated committee with the charge of overseeing all institutional research projects involving human participants. The CPHS serves as the IRB for Dartmouth College, the Hitchcock Clinic, Dartmouth Medical School, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and the Department of Veteran Affairs (White River Junction). This site includes Frequently Asked Questions, News & Announcements, and IRB General Information and Member Policy Memo. This site includes a link to IRBNet.org, a web based tool developed by Dartmouth College and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (using NIH Enhancement Grant Funds). The primary features of IRBNet include a protocol and consent form development module and a communication module for sharing IRB status within multi-center projects.

ClinicalTrials.gov
Features regularly updated information on approximately 12,000 federally and privately supported clinical research projects involving human volunteers. Developed by the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health, this searchable database is a resource for both healthcare professionals and the general public. The database is designed for searching or browsing by disease/condition, location, treatment, sponsor type, age group, study phase, or study ID number. The status of each trial is indicated as "not yet recruiting," "recruiting," "no longer recruiting," and "completed." Also includes a "what"s new" section.

FDA Good Clinical Practice Guidance
The Good Clinical Practice Program, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, addresses issues arising in human research trials regulated by FDA. The program coordinates FDA policies, plans and conducts training and outreach programs, and serves as a liaison with the HHS Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP) and other federal agencies and external stakeholders committed to the protection of human research participants.

First Clinical Journal
First Clinical Research now focuses on advancing the practice of clinical research through best practices consulting, training, implementation and research. First Clinical Research publishes the Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices, a forum for sharing material of practical use in clinical research.

The Pfizer Journal
Provides its readers with a global forum for insights, ideas, and commentary about health care and biomedical research. The Pfizer Journal" has covered a wide variety of topics from caregiving to the global burden of disease. Includes issues dedicated to Clinical Trials.

Applied Clinical Trials Magazine
An ad-supported journal directed to individuals responsible for all aspects of clinical trials. Users who register can receive a free online subscription. Each issue includes clinical trials-related editorials and commentaries, news and letters, and feature articles. Also includes information about clinical trials events and conferences.

Strategic Research Institute
Produces "high-level" high-level meetings, conferences and events focused on business research, education, and information, which relate directly to market trends, global competition and technological change. These conferences also provide a forum for networking between industry leaders, potential strategic partners, prospects and customers. The web site includes listing of Clinical Trials conferences.

Writing Tools

Information about EndNote and RefWorks
Use either EndNote or RefWorks to help you manage references to published literature and create bibliographies in your papers.

Books available in the Dartmouth Libraries

Getting science grants: effective strategies for funding success
Blackburn, Thomas R.
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2003.
Kresge Q180.55.G7 B53 2003

Grant application writer's handbook
Reif-Lehrer, Liane
Sudbury, Mass : Jones and Bartlett, c2005
Matthews-Fuller Library R853.P75 R439 2005

Grant writing tips for nurses and other health professionals
Kenner, Carole
Washington, D.C. : American Nurses Association, 2001.
Matthews-Fuller Library RT73.K46 2001

Guide to effective grant writing: how to write a successful NIH grant.
Yang, Otto O.
New York : Kluwer Academic, c2005.
1 copy being processed for the Matthews-Fuller Library.

The "how to" grants manual: successful grantseeking techniques for obtaining public and private grants
Bauer, David G.
Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1999. 4th ed.
Baker-Berry Library HG177 .B38 1999

Research proposals : a guide to success
Ogden, Thomas E.
New York, N.Y. : Raven Press, c1990
Dana Library R853.P75 O35 1990

Successful grant writing: strategies for health and human service professionals.
Gitlin, Laura N.
New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2004. 2nd ed.
Matthews-Fuller Library HV41.2 .G58 2004

Writing successful science proposals
Friedland, Andrew J. and Carol L. Folt
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.
Kresge Library Q180.55.P7 F75 2000
Dana Library Q180.55.P7 F75 2000 c.2