I would like to reiterate what Barbara said - my office is much the same
(only a teeny bit larger) and we hav discontinued nearly all print
services. They are too costly and too time consuming. I use IRIS, the OFP
Grantsearch, and COS (which is purchased through our Board of Regents for
all Georgia schools) and these seem to give us all we can handle in the way
of information.
Mary
At 03:49 PM 3/10/99 -0600, Dr. Charles E. Graham sent a message saying:
*I get far more milage out of SPIN (comprehensive funding opportunity
*database and SMARTS (funding opportunity alert system) than I could
*possibly do from print services. I have discontinued all of them. We can't
*keep up with which faculty would be interested in each topic, and so
*encourage use of SMARTS to keep themselves informed. For those who take the
*trouble to use it, it works well. SPIN is useful to me not only for funding
*searches for faculty, but also for looking up program info for office use.
*Both incorporate CBD and Fed Register (selected for items of likely
*interest to universities). If you take labor and quality of service into
*account these are better value than print (products of InfoEd International
*Inc. - they have graduated prices for small institutions) We also use Grant
*Advisor: the only one worth its price because they allow local
*reproduction. Charlie.
*
*At 02:54 PM 3/10/1999 -0500, you wrote:
*>We are in the process of evaluating expenses. I would like
*>to hear from small (2.3/4 staff) research offices with
*>limited budgets. Does your office subscribe to any of the
*>multitude of publications that are out there? We have
*>decided to go with a few in hard copy, now, how do I
*>choose? The Grant Advisor we will keep (online).
*>Small newsletters are my problem, i.e., The Federal Grants
*>and Contracts Weekly, Federal Assistance Monitor,
*>Foundation & Corporate Grants Alert, Aris, Education
*>Funding, and so on. Does anyone read these on a regular
*>basis and have an opinion as to which are the most useful
*>and/or if we need them at all? Now that we have a great
*>deal of resources on-line, how often do you read these
*>publications?
*>Thanks for any input!!
*>Suzette
*>----------------------
*>Suzette S. Mauney
*>Appalachian State University
*>Assistant Director, Sponsored Programs
*>(704)262-2694*fax(704)262-2709
*>xxxxxx@appstate.edu
*>
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