FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 22, 2000
Contact: Ann Trent, UAF Proposal Office, at (907) 474-7719, or Al Geist, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences Academic Services
SFOS-2000/NR003

UAF subscribes to funding database

FAIRBANKS, Alaska—The UAF Proposal Office is subscribing to a new funding database called IRIS.

The Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS) is a unit of the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign. IRIS offers the following services:

1. The IRIS Database contains over 8,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The IRIS Database is accessible on the World-Wide-Web (WWW) at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/iris/. Users can search IRIS by agency, deadline dates, keyword, and other criteria. Most IRIS records contain live links to sponsor Web sites, electronic forms, or Electronic Research Administration (ERA) gateways, so getting started on a proposal can be just a mouse-click away.

2. The IRIS Alert Service is a WWW-based funding-alert service for faculty, staff and students. The alert service allows users at subscribing institutions to create personal IRIS search profiles. Researchers can select their preferred search frequency, delivery method (e-mail or WWW), and keywords. The program runs the researcher's profile against the IRIS database and delivers the search results automatically.

3. The IRIS Expertise Service enables faculty members and researchers to create detailed electronic CVs and post them to the Web for viewing by colleagues at other institutions, program officers at federal and private funding agencies, and private companies.

Contact the UAF Proposal Office at Room 207, Eielson Building, or by phone at 474-7719 or 474-5223, fax 474-6017. Send an e-mail to Ann Trent (fnamt1@uaf.edu) or Christina Baker (fncmb@uaf.edu).

Ann Trent
Information Coordinator - Proposal Office
University of Alaska Fairbanks
PO Box 757560
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7560
Phone (907)474-7719; FAX (907)474-6017