SciVal Funding Trial

The publisher Elsevier has asked Scripps to be a Beta test site for their new SciVal Funding database over the next six months, until December 31, 2009. Kresge Library staff encourage you to take advantage of this limited opportunity to access SciVal Funding at:

http://cert2-funding.scival.com/

A potentially valuable feature of this product is the ability to generate targeted recommendations of funding opportunities based on your individual profile. In addition, you can search by general topic as well as find awarded grants to identify research performance at both an individual and institutional level.

Library staff have already reported to Elsevier a problem with the advanced search feature under "Find Awarded Grants": searching by institution yields zero results. Until this is corrected, the Quick Search for Awarded Grants (in the upper right hand corner) can be used to search by institution.

SciVal Funding is similar to (and would be a competitor to) the IRIS Funding Opportunities database currently provided by the Library at:

http://www.library.illinois.edu/iris/

The Library's Grant Information page provides additional information about IRIS and other grant-related web sites at:

http://www.scripps.edu/library/grants.html

The Library welcomes any feeback on this trial product, email helplibscripps.edu