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Finding Funding and Publishing Opportunities

The Healey Library has subscriptions to several databases on funding and publishing opportunities. These resources provide current information from all over the world. Also check the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs for more funding sources.

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities

The goal of the Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities is “to help professors, graduate students and researchers publish their manuscripts.” Cabell’s provides such information as topic(s) of articles, manuscript guidelines, acceptance rate, type of reader, and the review process. That is, it gives the information an author would find useful in determining whether to submit a manuscript to a particular journal or not. The library subscribes to Cabell’s business directories, education directories and the psychology directory. To access the individual subject directories, click on Members in the list of links located on the left on the homepage and at the top of all other Cabell pages.

COS (Community of Science) Funding Opportunities

COS Funding Opportunities provides current information on grants offered by a wide variety of funding sources from all over the world, including federal and regional governments, foundations, professional societies, associations, and corporations. The database’s name is misleading. Although the database’s strength is in the sciences, it does cover the humanities and social sciences as well. This database serves faculty, staff, and doctoral student researchers. The UMass Boston Office of Research and Sponsored Programs pays for the university’s subscription to COS Funding Opportunities.

COS offers a number of search options, including a simple search and an advanced search. The main search or advanced search includes searching by sponsor, location and funding type. There are separate search pages to view an alphabetical list of sponsors and a map to search by geography. In addition, the search wizard guides the user through the many search options. Each record contains a title, abstract, amount, sponsor, contact information, deadline, eligibility requirements and COS keyword. The COS keywords are from a standardized list and can be used for searching. For help with the search options, view Help Using the COS Funding Opportunities.

COS Expertise

COS Expertise is a database of researchers at leading universities and other institutions involved in research. There are nearly 480,000 profiles submitted by researchers, scholars and other experts from more than 1,300 universities, government agencies, and other R&D organizations from around the world. Each profile is carefully reviewed by a skilled team of editors to insure the relevance, consistency and accuracy of the data, and to optimize the record for searching. Profiles include: qualifications, publications, awards, funding received, COS keywords and more.

COS Workbench

COS Workbench allows users to set up a profile, add a CV and receive funding alerts. COS Funding Alert is a personalized electronic notification service of funding information. COS Funding Alert subscribers receive a weekly e-mail with a customized list of funding opportunities based on previously specified criteria. This service is free through the UMass Boston subscription.

Funded Research is a group of 5 databases that allow you to research and track information on funding and award histories at leading research facilities around the world. Funded Research can be used to learn what types of research projects received funding in the past as well as those currently being funded. It also allows you to track information pertaining to the specific people and institutions receiving money. Such information can be useful in determining current trends or predicting future trends in research funding. The databases cover projects funded by 5 major government agencies:

Grant Advisor Plus

Grant Advisor Plus is a leading source of information on grant and fellowship opportunities for U.S. institutions of higher education and their faculty. The on-line deadline list/newsletter is available on and off campus to the UMass Boston community. New deadline memos/program descriptions come out at the beginning of each month 11 times per year (no July issue). The Current Issue Files page on the Internet offers you a series of choices for researching grant and fellowship possibilities. You will be able to download your own copy of The Grant Advisor early each month in various formats (txt and pdf). Additional features include current deadline memo hyperlinks divided into the subject areas (Fine Arts, Sciences, etc.); a database can be searched by funding agency, academic division, keywords and more; 200+ links to homepages of government and private funding sources; keyword searches of all grant program reviews and articles 1992 to present; links to Federal Register texts; and a series of articles on grant writing called The Grant Works.

Grants.gov

Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for United States federal grants, and is the single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by all federal grant-making agencies.

GrantsNet

GrantsNet provides information on funding opportunities for training in the biological and medical sciences (a free service provided by the American Association for the Advancement of Science). It contains programs that offer training and research funding for graduate and medical students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty, as well as programs in science, math, engineering, and technology for undergraduate faculty and students.

PapersInvited

PapersInvited is a multidisciplinary alerting service for calls for papers for upcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. Organized by discipline, it provides detailed information and deadlines for the calls for papers. It also has a conference and publication calendar. A user can set up a personal account and save information about conferences, establish a personal publishing calendar, and receive alert notices about opportunities in one’s area(s) of specialization. It provides an exclusive section for students at the Bachelor's level and above to check out seminars, design contests, publications etc. inviting their contributions and seeking their participation in challenging competitions. PaperInvited is provided by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).

SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network)

SPIN provides up-to-date information on current national and international government and private funding sources, including fellowships, research grants, publication support, sabbatical support, curriculum development, and more. All of the data on SPIN is obtained directly from the sponsoring agencies to ensure the integrity of the information. Through the advanced search page, users can search by sponsor, keyword, deadline, geography and more.

SPIN GENIUS

SPIN GENIUS (Global Expertise Network for Industry, University, and Scholars) is a global network and database of scientific and scholarly expertise containing profiles entered and maintained by scholars and researchers at leading universities and research institutions throughout the world. GENIUS provides a searchable resource for locating academic investigators/research partners for potential collaborations. Search profiles based on keywords, research interests, institution, state, and/or country. You can also perform free-text searches on full profiles.

If you setup a GENIUS profile, then you can create a CV and access SMARTS (SPIN Matching And Research Transmittal Service). SMARTS is an electronic matching and funding opportunity notification system which provides investigators with a direct and targeted electronic link to comprehensive, current, and available national and international research funding information. Investigator profile information is collected via forms in GENIUS and used for matching with the SPIN database. Matching is conducted on a daily basis and programs are automatically emailed to individual researchers. Researchers may receive information in Summary or Full Program reports.

ebrary

Ebrary contains the full text of more than 10,000 nonfiction books from over 150 academic publishers. Ebray has several ebooks on research grants and writing proposals, such as:

 

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