SciVal Funding demo and content policy
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We recognize the importance of high quality funding opportunity data, implying comprehensiveness,
accuracy and timeliness. Consequently, we have structured our content operations as such to
provide the highest content quality levels possible. Below are the parameters used to generate
SciVal Funding content.
- Content types distinguished: funding opportunities, sponsor, program and award data
- Funding bodies are segmented into five categories:
1. Federal: including all federal grant-making institutions
2. Government non-federal : including state and local agencies
3. Foundations: including scientifically orientated, corporate and philanthropic entities
4. Corporations
5. Other, (including international, NGOs etc)
Below is a list of the most common grant types. Associated with each grant type is the most common federal/NIH activity covered within that type.
- Research Grants (R01, R21, R33): Investigator-initiated grants designed to support a scientific topic conceived by a researcher independently.
- Training Grants (T32): Grants meant to support the training efforts of primarily pre-doctoral students. There grants are awarded to universities and utilized to support students as the university sees fit.
- Fellowships (F3, F31): Grants awarded to individuals to fund post-doctoral study and scientific training. * Career Development Grants (K01, K03): Grants awarded to career and mid-level scientists to further the course of this scientific careers.
- Program Project/Center Grants (P01, P30): Large grants awarded to universities to support significant research initiatives. These grants usually serve as several smaller grants that individually fund scientific projects that make up a larger effort.
- Cooperative Agreements/Contracts (U01, U03): Grants that take place as a partnership between the funding body and the university to collaboratively address a scientific topic.
- Equipment/Facilities Grants (C06): Grants designed specifically to purchase or maintain scientific equipment.
- Community Service Grants (S11): Grants designed to provide service and or care to a target group of people. These grants often contain a training component for individuals carrying out the care.
- Conference/Travel Grants (R13): Grants designed to host a scientific conference or meeting, or provide travel to a scientific meeting.
The subject areas are:
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Arts and Humanities
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Business, Management and Accounting
- Chemical Engineering
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Decision Sciences
- Dentistry
- Earth and Planetary Science
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Energy
- Engineering
- Environmental Science
- Health Professions
- Immunology and Microbiology
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Nursing
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
- Physics and Astronomy
- Psychology
- Social Sciences
- Veterinary
- Content Scope: Scientific research funding opportunities eligible to US researchers
(graduate students and up). Opportunities for researchers in the humanities are also available.
- Sources: There are over 5,000 sources identified to provide research funding opportunities that are
relevant for the identified scope. Content is retrieved in automated and manual manner directly
from these sources. Depending on the content category, content gets updated as often as
daily. Direct linkage to full source content is included in the majority of the content.
- Relying on Scopus™ publication data: Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of
peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources. It contains over 16,000 peer-reviewed journals,
including 1200 open access journals, from more than 4,000 international publishers.
For more information on Scopus, please visit http://info.scopus.com.
- Keywords are assigned to the funding content by the Elsevier journal classification,
as well as by leveraging provided keywords available within the funding content.
- Data is indexed using one homogenous schema structure, using FAST™ search technology.
- We do our very best to identify, gather and index new funding opportunities and programs as
soon as they emerge. To support that objective, we are working with independent content
experts and have instituted automated processes to facilitate that objective. In case funding
content is missing or needs updating or any other form of modification, please contact us at
usinfo@funding.scival.com and we will add the content as soon as possible.
- We very much welcome your feedback with regards to missing content, or for more information
with regards to our content coverage, sources and policy. If you have any questions or comments,
please contact us at usinfo@funding.scival.com.