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For several decades, CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) has been the “go-to” search resource for USA federally funded grants, research projects and programs. On September 9, 2009, NIH will retire CRISP in favor of the new grant award search engine, RePORTER. Currently you can search CRISP through its original interface or try out the recently released public beta full version of RePORTER . On September 9, only the new RePORTER interface will be available for searching, so make sure you check it out:
- The New NIH RePORTER Grant Search Engine
The original functionality of CRISP will be retained in RePORTER but significantly enhanced. This change was mandated as part of the legislative NIH Reform Act of 2006, which requires NIH to provide access to publications and patents resulting from NIH expenditures, including grant awards. When RePORTER goes completely live on September 9, new features will include:
- additional query fields
- ability to sort hit lists in a variety of ways
- download results to Excel
- any publications and/or patents resulting from grants and projects will be linked directly from within the hits list from several sources which currently include:
- PubMed
- PubMed Central
- US Patent & Trademark Office Patent Full Text and Image Database
- extramural funding available from the NIH eRA databases
- intramural funding from the NIH Intramural Database
In turn, RePORTER itself will be embedded within the much larger RePORT web resource that provides additional search engines for:
- NIH Reports
- Using pull-down menus, you can search for data from within NIH Reports. For example, you can craft a search to return data on success rates for R01 applications submitted to all NIH Institutes and Centers in fiscal year 2008.
- Categorical Spending
- Currently, you can search >200 diseases or conditions, generating a list funded grant information including project title, amount awarded, PI and more
- NIH Data Book
- Provides basic summary statistics on extramural grants, contract awards, grant applications, scientific workforce, etc. and more
The new RePORT web site, as well as the RePORTER search engine, will undergo a series of iterations throughout fiscal year 2010 as NIH continues to mature the resource to include new indexing schemes, more extensible search options and new features related to specific diseases and other conditions.
Additional related links:
- RePORT Overview
- RePORT Tutorial: A Flash-based tutorial that reviews basic features of the RePORT web site. The tutorial is divided into separate learning modules. You can choose which module you wish to view in whatever order you wish or let the tutorial run its pre-selected course set by NIH.
- RePORT FAQS
