Step-By-Step Instructions to Create an Account
The Office of the Vice President for Research provides a campus-wide subscription to SPIN which aggregates over 40,000 funding opportunities from more than 10,000 global sponsors. SPIN provides intuitive and easy access to funding opportunities geared towards both individual and administrative users.
Learn how to use the SPIN funding opportunities database to create personalized email funding alerts by following these instructions.
Step 1: Create your SPIN profile while on campus (OSU Wireless or campus network), step-by-step instructions are available.
Step 2: Watch for an email with login instructions from spinsupport@infoedglobal.com. (Access may take up to one business day; the user-validation process requires an overnight administrative process.)
Step 3: Login to SPIN and create and save searches that generate customized funding alerts.
For more information about research funding and support resources please go here
Some simple search suggestions when using SPIN.
- Place quotation marks around a key phrases within your research topic/discipline, e.g., “breast cancer”
- Use “AND” to search for multiple words, e.g., psychology and adolescent will return results with both terms in the record
- Use “NOT” to exclude terms, e.g., STEM not “stem cell*” will return results with only STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)
- Use ~ before any word to search throughout a funding opportunity record, e.g., ~cancer – will search all sections of the funding record not just the abstract