SPIN Plus through PennERA
SPIN Plus is a web-based system available through PennERA (Penn's Electronic Research Administration) portal. SPIN Plus includes three components:
- SPIN Searchable funding opportunities database that includes national and international government and private (foundations, associations and corporations) funding sources.
- GENIUS Global WWW network and database of investigator profiles of scientific and scholarly expertise.
- SMARTS Investigator Funding Alert System which matches investigator profile information with SPIN. Matches occur on a daily basis, and opportunities are emailed to researchers.
To access SPIN Plus, go to PennERA and click on Logon to PennERA to authenticate using PennKey and password. Choose Find Funding from the top of page.
Other Funding Databases
- Foundation Directory OnlineSearch grants funded by foundations in detail, search foundations by area of interest, or research grantmaking organizations.
- Grant Advisor PlusInformation on grant, research, and fellowship opportunities for U.S. institutions of higher education and their faculty. Click on "Subscriber Pages" to search.
NOTE: only available through Penn IP addresses. - Grants.govSingle access point for information on over 1,000 grant programs and approximately $500 billion in annual awards.
- NIH RePORTERSearchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions. Users can search for scientific concepts, emerging trends and techniques, or identify specific projects and/or investigators, NIH funding expenditures, and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project.