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Research Tools

The Office of Research & Sponsored Programs continually strives to provide top-tier services and support to the University research  community aimed at enhancing their productivity and the overall research enterprise.

We are welcoming Hanover Research as our new grant consulting service provider.

Hanover Research will deliver grant consulting services to all faculty, assisting them with grantsmanship for individual grants, training grants and other programmatic funding proposals. Hanover Research’s grant professionals have more than 150 years of combined experience, cumulatively securing over $500 million from federal and foundation funders such as the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation.

For more information and to be connected to Hanover through our membership,
contact the ATU Office of Research & Sponsored Programs by emailing ospui@atu.edu.  

Hanover provides a broad range of pre-award grants support services that are broken down into the following general areas:
▪ Grantseeking Capacity Development: Developing organizational capacity to pursue and win grant funding, through training, strategic assessment, and benchmarking. Project types include: Onsite Grantsmanship Workshops; Grantsmanship Webinars; Grantseeking Strategy Development; and Grantseeking Capacity Research.
▪ Funding Research: Identifying and evaluating grant opportunities aligned to member projects, while enabling longer-term planning through funded project research and forecasting. Project types include: Prospecting; Funding Opportunity Analysis; Funding Activity Research; and Forecasting.
▪ Pre-Proposal Activities: Assessing and developing competitive project concepts, helping members to navigate funder requirements and build relationships prior to completing submissions. Project types include: Concept Development; Competitiveness Assessment; and Outreach Consulting.
▪ Proposal Support: Supporting member-led grant proposal projects by providing review and revision services designed to ensure the strongest possible proposals are submitted. Project types include: Proposal Review; Proposal Revision; Proposal Research; and Internal Pre-Proposal Review.
▪ Proposal Development: Leading programmatic grant proposals, in close coordination with member teams, crafting narrative drafts over a defined timeline towards a polished submission. Project types include: Proposal Production; Proposal Research; LOI/Pre-Proposal Production.

DIGITAL TOOLS FOR RESEARCHERS

ֱ has partnered with QuestionPro to provide our students, faculty and staff with web survey and analysis software. Follow the QuestionPro link to find out more and apply for a free, Tech sponsored account.

 Listed below are some other research tools that you may find useful:

 - ReadCube is a desktop and browser-based program for managing, annotating, and accessing academic research articles. Free 30 day trial.

 - Shelfster is a free solution that allows you to gather information from everywhere, write articles, publish them to your WordPress blog or save them as WordPress drafts. 

 - The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point (). Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.

 - Code Ocean is a cloud-based computational reproducibility platform.

 - At Datahub, we provide various solutions to Publish and Deploy your Data with power and simplicity. Datahub is the fastest way for individuals, teams and organizations to publish, deploy and share their data.

 - The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of datatypes.

 - The Antibody Registry gives researchers a way to universally identify antibodies used in their research.

 - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.