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Find Federally Funded Biotech Research Projects?
TOPIC: Often companies and organizations involved in biotechnology seek details about U.S. government-sponsored research projects. They want to know sponsoring agencies, corporate researchers, starting and end dates, and project descriptions. Dialog has several databases that address government endeavors. Among them, Federal Research in Progress (FEDRIP) (File 266) provides access to details about ongoing U.S. federally funded research projects in the fields of physical sciences, engineering and life sciences. All records in the database include title, principal investigator, performing and sponsoring organization. Most records contain a description of the research.
Related databases include NTIS—National Technical Information Service (File 6), and Federal Register (File 180).
In this exercise, you want to find research projects on gene sequencing funded in the current fiscal year. You will use File 266 and run a keyword search on titles and descriptor fields, restrict results to the current fiscal year. You will then use RANK to browse the sponsoring agencies.
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN 266
SELECT GENE(5N)SEQUENC?/TI,DE
SELECT S1 AND FY=2008
TYPE S2/8/1-3
Click S2 > Tasks > RANK
Check entries, select format and number of items and click View
HOW TO...
1. BEGIN File 266 to search Federal Research in Progress.
2. SELECT search terms using proximity connectors and narrow to the Title or the Descriptor (/TI,DE) fields.
The connector (N) specifies the words can be in either order. Placing a number before the N indicates how many words can appear between the connected terms.
The question mark truncation symbol allows for variant word endings.
3. SELECT Set 1 (S1) AND the current fiscal year (FY=). |
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4. TYPE a few records in Format 8 to browse titles and indexing. This helps you to see if you’re on the right track. The descriptor terms give insight on ways to tighten the search.
Notice that the contributing government agency code appears above the title. The field to search the agency is File Segment (FS=).
Note: Some records have been omitted from this display.
5. VISUAL RANK by clicking the Set number (S2) in the Set Links pane > Tasks > Rank. |
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6. Check the Rank field, in this example, the Sponsoring Organization (SP), and click OK. |
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The Ranked list gives you a quick snapshot of the sponsoring agencies (SP) in these 55 records.
7. Check the agencies you want to view, select the format and number of items and click View. |
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Records provide contact information of the principal investigator.
Fields available to search project dates include Starting Date (SD=) and Completion Date (CD=).
Note: Part of this record is omitted from the display. |
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