Tracking Grants with RePORT and RePORTER

Guest Blog Author: Suzy Roy, NLM Associate Fellow

The push for more open and transparent government increases interest in what and where tax payer money goes. RePORT is the Web site to use to detect outputs and impacts of Federally-funded grants awarded for biomedical research.

RePORT (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools) is a Web site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help track funding.  It gives access to reporting tools, reports, data and analysis of HHS research grants and activities.

RePORTER (RePORT Expenditures and Results), which replaced the CRISP database in September 2009, is a tool on the RePORT Web site.  You can use it to determine outputs and impacts of Federally funded awards for biomedical research.  RePORTER contains information about grants and contracts funded by:

• All 27 Institutes and Centers from of National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Using the resources on RePORT such as RePORTER you can search, refine, export (into Excel) and analyze grant data.  Furthermore, with RePORTER you can use visualization tools such as maps and charts to gain insight into HHS spending, HHS-funded projects, institutions, investigators or even current scientific trends.  You can find links to PubMed Central for full-text articles, PubMed for abstracts and citations, and the US Patent and Trademark Office Patent Full-Text and Image Database for patent information by using RePORTER.

So do you have to track down an NIH grant?  Do you need to assess the growth in a field based on funding?  Do you need to determine current trends in research topics and funding?  RePORTER is a good resource to accomplish these and other tasks.

To use RePORTER, go to http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm.  Additional resources for RePORT are at http://report.nih.gov/index.aspx.

QUESTION: What types of funding questions have you answered?  What resource(s) did you use to find the answer?

Photo Credit: Screenshot of RePORT website (http://report.nih.gov/index.aspx). Retrieved January 20, 2012.

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February 15, 2012  Tags: NIH, RePORT, RePORTER, research activities, research grants  Posted in: Financial, Guest Contributors, NIH Databases

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