STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the expansion of SciVal Funding to regions outside of the US, enabling institutions to identify international funding opportunities.
Through the international expansion of SciVal Funding, researchers, research administrators and research development professionals in Canada, the UK and the European Union will now have access to relevant funding opportunities and awarded grant data under a single integrated solution. SciVal Funding will be expanded to Australia in August and to Singapore, South Africa, India, New Zealand and Ireland by the end of 2011.
Recognizing the challenges of increased competition for funding, Elsevier developed SciVal Funding to optimise the pre-award stage of the research cycle. The tool leads researchers, research administrators and research development professionals to grants with the greatest potential for success by integrating current funding opportunities with publication information and historical award data. Updated daily, funding opportunities can be explored by subject area, award type, deadline or amount.
In addition, SciVal Funding provides customised recommendations and alerts by matching funding opportunity data to pre-populated researcher profiles that are continuously updated. Research administrators may also use award information for performance measurement, evaluation and strategic planning purposes. Access to a comprehensive pool of funding opportunities as well as the ability to uncover new sources of financial support is especially critical in these uncertain economic times.
The inclusion of funding opportunities, award information and pre-populated researcher profiles from these newly added countries, as well as the addition of nearly 700 funding bodies to the more than 3,000 US-based sources currently available in the platform, is expected to allow institutions to discover international funding opportunities, resulting in more effective collaboration.
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