ScanGrants: A Case Study of the Creation of a Free Online Database of Current Grants, Scholarships, and Other Sources of Funding in the Health Sciences

ABSTRACT

This article provides an overview of the genesis, development, and features of ScanGrants, <http://www.scangrants.com/>, the free online resource, and discusses how librarians can develop inexpensive Web development projects that take advantage of the searching and categorizing skills they possess. This paper also touches on matters of copyright and the marketing of Web services outside of one's own institution and the importance for medical librarians to forge alliances with other institutional colleagues.

KEYWORDS:

• Electronic resources
• grants
• grants database
• grantsmanship
• Medgrab
• RSS
• ScanGrants
• syndicated content
• Web development

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Hope Leman

Hope Leman ([email protected]) is Library Technical Specialist, Murray Memorial Library, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, 3600 NW Samaritan Drive, Corvallis OR 97330. She is enrolled in the FastTrack MLIS program at the University of Pittsburgh.