The Office of the Vice President for Research provides services and resources through an electronic grants management system to assist researchers in developing proposals and seeking funding. In addition, this system provides a powerful technical search engine, which includes direct links to Medline, Agricola, U. S. Geosurvey, and U. S. Patent Search for information retrieval. P rograms Information Network, is a database containing more than 11,000 funding opportunities from more than 1,200 sponsoring agencies. All funding opportunities on SPIN are obtained directly from the sponsoring agencies and are updated daily. Budget restrictions and guidelines are either incorporated by University administration via setup or are accessible on-line.
Reviewers can then access the proposal for comments and administrative authorization.
This module provides on-line access to the status of proposals and creates and provides reports on projects in the database for authorized users. Compliance Systems automatically generates agendas, minutes, and communications to investigators and sponsors with an MS Word interface and enables you to meet all Federal reporting requirements promptly and easily. When linked to Proposal Tracking, Compliance Systems provides automatic notification of approval of pending protocols. In addition, CTM shares protocol information with the Human Subjects Compliance Systems module. CTM is primarily for use by IRB and clinical management staff.