Looking for Grants:
in All the Right Places
Two databases, IRIS and LaSmarts, are available to the LSUHSC community for searching state, national, and international grant funding sources. An individual profile can be set up in each database to automatically identify and match funding opportunities of interest. The results are emailed to the individual.
IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information Service) (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/iris/ link removed) contains records on over 8,000 federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Weekly email announcements provide a list of all matched opportunities. Access is provided via a subscription of the LSUHSC Office of Research.
LaSmarts (http://www.osr.lsu.edu/smarts/ link removed) is a funding alert service that searches Louisiana, national, and international government, as well as private funding sources. Announcements are emailed daily to the individual. This service ensures that investigators are kept current of new funding opportunities and of revised or approaching deadlines. LaSmarts is sponsored by the Louisiana Board of Regents and the National Science Foundation under the EPSCoR initiative for registered Louisiana Institutions of Higher Education.
While both databases are theoretically "user friendly," Reference Librarians provide help to faculty and students who would like extra tips on using these services. We offer group classes as well as one-on-one sessions. Please contact the Reference Department (504) 568-6102 and (504) 568-8339 or on the web at http://www.lsuhsc.edu/no/library/staff.html#ref link removed for more information.
-- Kathy Kerdolff
kkerdo@lsuhsc.edu link removed