Category Archives: Grants

A Year in Review: UT Southwestern Library’s Response to COVID-19

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As we welcome our UT Southwestern community back to the Health Sciences Digital Library & Learning Center space in May 2021, we’d like to reflect on what we have done to make it safer for you to come back over the last year. The Library Staff of 16 spent a combined total of over 2,250 hours on COVID-19 related projects in the past year. Our list of contributions is as follows:

  • Created the comprehensive COVID-19 Library Guide.
  • Conducted COVID-19 mediated searches with related clinical, research, and administrative purposes.
  • Created, maintained, and performed daily searches to maintain the Campus’s COVID-19 Funding Opportunities directory.
  • Selected and created the Library Reservation System for safe studying and contact tracing.
  • Instructed CME class related to searching for COVID-19 topics.
  • Processed Interlibrary Loan requests with safety precautions.
  • Planned and implemented the closing of the physical North and South Libraries and then the opening of South Campus Library, including publishing the UT Southwestern Library Re-Opening Guide.
  • Planned and made necessary changes to workflows and staff remote set-ups to allow full continuation of research and instructional services.
  • Had multiple discussions and made decisions for additional resources related to COVID-19 for inclusion the Library Guide.
  • Learned and networked about handling COVID-19 in medical libraries via professional organizations, webinars, and conferences.

Bitty Babu, the Library’s Database Analyst, complied our COVID-19 service hours and provided the following visualizations for our efforts.

New UTSW credentials sign-on enhancement added to Pivot Funding Database

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The Library recently purchased and implemented the Pivot system from Ex Libris / ProQuest, and we are pleased to announce that users may now sign in using their UT Southwestern username and password.

Pivot – formerly known as Community of Science (COS) – provides a powerful search interface to an up-to-date and comprehensive funding opportunities database. You can set alerts, share opportunities, and get funding recommendations.

In addition to the critical purpose of finding funding, Pivot has several other useful features:

  • Locate potential collaborators in your specific field.
  • Discover conferences and calls for papers of interest.
  • Determine which funders are most promising for your needs.

The Library has created a guide to help you get started with Pivot. You can also schedule one-on-one or group training.

If locating funding is important to your work, you will likely find Pivot to be an invaluable tool. Please give it a test “drive” today.

Library welcomes feedback on Pivot™ trial

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NOTE: Pivot™ Funding Opportunities trial has now been extended until 9/8/2020.

The Library is offering temporary trial access to Pivot™ Funding Opportunities through August 31, 2020. Pivot™ is a database of grants, fellowships, and other funding opportunities compiled and curated from global sources, encompassing government, foundations, and professional associations. Users can: 

  • Search for funding opportunities 
  • Review awarded opportunities 
  • Collaborate with colleagues 
  • Receive a weekly email alert customized to their research profile and interests.  

We invite UT Southwestern’s faculty, fellows, residents, postdocs, students, and staff to explore this product during the trial period and provide feedback about the product’s value to support UT Southwestern research activities. To learn how to create your Pivot™ account, review search tips, and access training videos and handouts, please refer to Pivot™ Trial Information and Tips. 

Note: The trial is not a guarantee of purchase. A purchasing decision is dependent on a variety of factors, including cost, campus needs, resource quality, feedback, collection priorities, uniqueness, and budget. 

To supply feedback, please complete the brief Pivot™ Feedback Survey. If you have questions or would like to offer other feedback, please use the Library Ask Us form.  

Library and SPA launch new COVID-19 Funding Opportunities page

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The Library – in partnership with UT Southwestern Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) – has curated the COVID-19 Funding Opportunities web page, which resides in the Library’s COVID-19 Library Guide.

These funding sources have been compiled from:

COVID-19 related funding opportunities are sorted by government/non-government categories and provide hyperlinked brief synopses, award amounts, and due dates. The site is regularly updated and includes a section for recent additions.

For more information – including grantor updates, webinars, etc. – please visit SPA’s Mitigating Impacts to Research Activities Due to COVID-19 On-Campus access required page.

Library hosts course on grants and the basics of writing grant proposals

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Michelle Malizia, M.A., associate director of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central Region (NN/LM SCR), will teach a course designed for beginning grant proposal writers, which presents a general overview of the grant and funding processes, as well as the level of detail required in a successful proposal. The class will be held on November 20, 2014, from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Library’s Informatics Classroom (Room E2.310A).

In the course, each component of the grant writing process will be addressed, including:

  • Documenting the need
  • Identifying the target population
  • Writing measurable objectives
  • Developing work, evaluation, and dissemination plans

Registration is limited and required. Reserve your place at https://nnlm.gov/scr/training/register.html?schedule_id=3139. This course will not include information on research level grants (R01, R03, etc.).

Ms. Malizia coordinates the grant writing process at the NN/LM SCR and has extensive experience in the field of grant writing and evaluating. The NN/LM SCR serves the biomedical information needs of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas and writes, evaluates, and administers many grants and awards. The Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library, located in Houston, Texas, operates as the Regional Medical Library for the NN/LM SCR under a five-year contract with the National Library of Medicine. The mission of the NN/LM is to advance the progress of medicine and improve public health through access to health information.

SciVal Funding – Where’s the money?

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Need funding for your research? Our new SciVal Funding database provides global access to opportunities and comprehensively covers award/grants from Australia, Canada, the European Commission, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

With more than 3,000 international sponsors providing more than 16,000 active awards/grants, SciVal provides researchers with many funding opportunities. Tutorials are available within the database to guide your use.

SciVal Funding features personalized “funding profiles” for researchers who have published and/or been funded.  Check out your personal profile soon.

The Library will offer individual and group training sessions, lunch and learns, and featured tabletop sessions soon.  Call the Library at 214-648-2003 to request assistance or use the Ask Us form on our website to set up a training session.

Search for grants, fellowships, prizes using ProQuest's COS Funding Opportunities

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The COS Funding Opportunities database includes grants, fellowships, prizes, and other types of funding that are available to recipients anywhere in the world and working in any discipline. Opportunities are sponsored from both the public and private sectors, including local, state, and national governments; foundations and societies; and corporations.

Research funding may be tracked using “e-mail alerts” or RSS feeds or by saving them to “My Research”. Searches may be limited by topic, citizenship or degree requirements, sponsorship or funding type, and location. The “Help” feature details searching, session management, use of the “My Research” tool, and account creation.

COS Funding Opportunities may be found under “Quick Links” on the Library’s web site or with other grant information resources on the Grants Portal.  Please email Mary Ann Huslig or call 214.648.7687 for assistance.

COS introduces Pivot for funding tracking

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NOTE: COS Pivot is no longer a UT Southwestern Library resource. Go to the Library’s Grants Portal for current grant resources.

You now have access to COS Pivot as part of UT Southwestern Library’s existing subscription to COS Funding Opportunities. To take advantage of all it has to offer, visit http://pivot.cos.com and use your current COS login name and password to gain access.

Don’t have a UTSW COS login name and password? Go to http://www.cos.com/utswmc.shtml to register as a new user and set up your COS Profile.

Pivot focuses on what matters most: the ability to find both appropriate funding opportunities and other collaborators in your area of interest. Pivot provides the most comprehensive, editorially maintained database of funding opportunities for research, fellowships, travel grants, and more. Plus, it integrates this with our unique database of three million pre-populated scholar profiles, which makes finding funding and collaborators quick and easy.

Find Funding Now and for the Future

Pivot provides you with your own home page to track your most important active funding opportunities or keep an eye on opportunities for future projects. In addition, you can make the most of your time by saving your searches and receiving weekly alerts that meet your criteria.

Not sure where to start? Pivot helps to jumpstart the process with the Funding Advisor, which matches funding to the profiles in Pivot. Claim or create your Pivot profile to receive funding recommendations based on your experience and expertise. (Note: Newly created profiles are editorially vetted before being visible on Pivot.) Funding matches provide a starting point for funding, and introduces opportunities, sponsors, topics, and keywords that can be used for your own searches.

Connect to Collaborators

Search for potential collaborators at your institution or beyond. Pivot provides user-friendly tools to refine your search that identify people you may not know. In addition, Pivot expedites the discovery process by presenting links from funding opportunities to find possible collaborators and makes it easy to share funding opportunities with colleagues and follow up on shared items. You will soon be able to set up your own collaborative groups within Pivot.

Ready to Support You
Support materials and webinar information can be found at http://pivot.cos.com/support. For campus support, please contact Mary Ann Huslig at maryann.huslig@utsouthwestern.edu.

HRSA Health Profession Workforce Development & Grants Information

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The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has a special program that focuses on health profession workforce development that is designed to ensure that “the U.S. has the right clinicians, with the right skills, working where they are needed.”

The “About” tab offers more about health professions and offers visitors a downloadable copy of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, along with a fact sheet. Visitors from higher education institutions and accredited medical education programs who are interested in applying for government grants should definitely check out the “Grants” link.

Here they will find a trove of information on grants and how to apply in areas from nursing to dentistry to diversity. The “Workforce Analysis” link has six downloadable studies documenting the nursing shortage in the United States, which is projected to reach one million people by the year 2020. Overall this site is a great resource for those working in the health professions, healthcare educators, and students. [KMG]

Find funding and collaborators with COS Pivot

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NOTE: COS Pivot is no longer a UT Southwestern Library resource. Go to the Library’s Grants Portal for current grant resources.

COS Funding Opportunities now has an updated look, more features, and a new name—COS Pivot. Pivot lets you search for collaborators both at UT Southwestern and at other universities in addition to searching for funding opportunities. Pivot contains a database of pre-populated researcher profiles with information drawn from institution and departmental web sites, COS Expertise profiles, and publication databases such as PubMed. Each time you search for funding opportunities in Pivot, you can choose to view the list of researcher profiles that match the information in your search. Pivot will also try to automatically match you with funding opportunities based on the information in your own profile.

To access your profile, either log in with your existing COS username and password or create a new account.