We subscribe to IRIS, and have found it to be effective both in terms of
conducting individual searches for faculty and giving faculty/trainees
access to a searchable electronic database.  I have no data on how
satisfied faculty are with the "automatic" electronic notification
feature; there probably aren't many using it.  We are seriously
considering joining COS.

>Hi-
>I know the first question has been asked before...just thought I'd check on
>any updates.
>1) Aside from SPIN/SMARTS, Community of Science, FEDIX, and GrantsNet...
>are there any truly remarkable biomedical funding opportunity databases
>and/or automated notification systems out there?
>2) And, once you have something that you feel works, do your investigators
>use it? In particular, do they prefer submitting a profile for periodic
>announcements OR would they rather do separate independent searches?
>Thanks for all replies.
>Charlie Hathaway
>
>
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>Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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