WSU Office of Research subscribes to Community of Science (COS) Funding
database for all of our faculty, staff and students (www.cos.com).  I
find it very thorough and extremely useful for targeted funding
opportunity dispersal to our faculty.  It also has great administrative
tools.

Benefits:
-Personalized targeted funding searches (and email alerts) can be
created by or for each individual
-Admin tools allow me to monitor the types and number of results
received (& offer assistance when necessary)
-Opportunities are all in the same format (easy to find critical
information)
-Yearly opportunities stay in the system (even if current RFA has not
been released)
-Admin tools allow easy email sharing of searches, download options for
e-newsletters.
-Facilitates identification of limited submission opportunities
-The opportunity is very comprehensive and quite accurate - includes
federal, non-federal, private, international, foundation, corporate
opportunities.

Downside:
-Opportunities are listed on COS about a week later than grants.gov
-COS does not catch as many of our state and local opportunities (it
does catch some)
-Hard to get all the faculty to take the time to create their searches
(and thus receive a weekly funding alert email)

Esther Pratt
Faculty Research Development Specialist
Office of Grant & Research Development
Washington State University
xxxxxx@wsu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Ann Laura Walker
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:20 AM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Funding Opportunity Sources

Good Muggy Afternoon, to all,

I'm sure this has been discussed before but I am mentally assessing the
merits of certain funding opportunity sources and publications and I was
wondering if you can share with me what you like and do not like about
the subscriptions you have? I am aware of a great many of them but I'm
wondering if there are some I don't know of, perhaps?

Thank you,
Laura

Ann Laura Walker
Information Specialist
Office of the Vice President for Research
The George Washington University
2121 I Street, NW, Suite 601
Washington DC 20052
Telephone: (202) 994-9136
Fax: (202) 994-9137
www.gwu.edu/~research

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