ScanGrants: Reaching Out to Researchers in the Health Sciences
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Abstract
ScanGrants is a Web-based listing of grant, scholarship and other funding types in the health sciences. ScanGrants is an example of how librarians and other information professionals can employ free Web 2.0 tools such as those of FeedBurner and Google Analytics to create free services for library patrons, researchers and anyone in the world with an Internet connection.
We determined to create a free, Web-based listing of grants and other funding types that would enable potential researchers (novice and experienced), public health workers and community public health advocates to garner funding for their projects. We also make an effort to list as many scholarships in the health sciences as possible in order to attract bright people into healthcare and so help alleviate the perennial shortage of nurses and allied heath professionals.
ScanGrants is being adopted by a broad range of medical, academic and public libraries and institutions such as the Michigan State University Libraries, the Alameda County Library, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Washington University in St. Louis, the Office of Research Information Services at the University of Washington and so on.
We wanted to make ScanGrants as easy to use as possible. Therefore, we list a broad range of categories (e.g., Academia, Academic Medicine, Acute Care, Aging, Alcoholism, Allergy Medicine, Alzheimer’s Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). Users can subscribe to either the main listings or by category via email, RSS and Twitter.
It is an innovative service of particular value to those without access to expensive services such as Community of Science.
We determined to create a free, Web-based listing of grants and other funding types that would enable potential researchers (novice and experienced), public health workers and community public health advocates to garner funding for their projects. We also make an effort to list as many scholarships in the health sciences as possible in order to attract bright people into healthcare and so help alleviate the perennial shortage of nurses and allied heath professionals.
ScanGrants is being adopted by a broad range of medical, academic and public libraries and institutions such as the Michigan State University Libraries, the Alameda County Library, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Washington University in St. Louis, the Office of Research Information Services at the University of Washington and so on.
We wanted to make ScanGrants as easy to use as possible. Therefore, we list a broad range of categories (e.g., Academia, Academic Medicine, Acute Care, Aging, Alcoholism, Allergy Medicine, Alzheimer’s Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). Users can subscribe to either the main listings or by category via email, RSS and Twitter.
It is an innovative service of particular value to those without access to expensive services such as Community of Science.
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