The US’ National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the availability of funding information for grants and contracts through RePORT Expenditures and Results (RePORTER), a new search system on its Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT). RePORTER is expected to allow users to locate descriptions and funding details on NIH-funded projects along with research results that cite NIH support. It seeks to combine NIH project databases and funding records, PubMed abstracts, full-text articles from PubMed Central and information from the US Patent and Trademark Office with a robust search engine.
User-defined searches allow the public to refine, export and analyse results and provide insights into NIH spending, as well as research results across NIH-funded projects, institutions, investigators or scientific concepts. Searching for grants funded by the Recovery Act is seen to be made especially easy by a checkbox that limits searches to that area of interest. Plans for improvements in RePORTER include allowing users to personalise their experience. NIH seeks to provide users the ability to save favourite searches, set alerts for new grants, publications and patents, and even export the entire RePORTER database.
RePORTER is the latest tool on the RePORT website, NIH's online repository of reports, data and analyses of research-related funding. RePORT provides data on NIH's research-related grant and contract funding, including general reports and statistics, funding by research, condition and disease categories, and new data visualisation tools. Dynamic reports and geographic mapping tools are claimed to offer unparalleled access to information on NIH's Recovery Act grant funding on an individual project, state or national level.
RePORT is available at RePORT.nih.gov. The project search tool, RePORTER, is available through the RePORT site or by going directly to ProjectRePORTER.nih.gov.
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