Funding Institutional
Funding Institutional is a search and discovery solution, which helps universities and research institutions to increase grant success rates with funding insights, discovery and decisions. Gain a competitive edge using a single solution that combines over 24,000 active funding opportunities, with over 5.7 million awarded research grants from funders.
Features
- Thousands of opportunities from more than 5,000 funders globally.
- Largest dataset of awards in the market.
- Continuous data updates to all datasets.
- Powerful and high performance full text search for datasets.
- Analytics data provided by interactive chart components.
- Email notifications triggered by changes to data or approaching deadlines.
- Integration with Elsevier's Pure to make funding opportunities available.
- Single sign-on integration.
- Role based access control to manage user permissions.
- API so users can integrate data directly in their systems.
Benefits
- Facilitates searching for opportunities which researchers are eligible for.
- Suggests opportunities based on a researcher's scientific publications in Scopus.
- Saves time searching for internal and external opportunities.
- Shows standardised funding opportunities and awards across funders globally.
- Informs you of relevant new funding opportunities and upcoming deadlines.
- Gives insights regarding the funding landscape.
- Shares funding opportunities across the institution via integration with Pure.
- Highlights the active funders in a research discipline.
- Shows the award's trend for a research discipline.
- High-quality, current data enriched with Scopus researcher and institutional profiles.
Pricing
£8,000 to £35,000 a licence a year
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 13
Service ID
6 3 3 2 3 8 6 4 4 0 0 3 9 4 5
Contact
Elsevier
Vinod Mahi
Telephone: +44 7881 002595
Email: v.mahi@elsevier.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
- There are no hardware limitations. The only software limitation is regarding supported browsers. Maintenance is managed as much as possible in low usage times.
- System requirements
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- Internet connectivity
- Up-to-date supported browser
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- The average time to respond to the first ticket is 1 day (weekdays and weekend), while the average total turn around time, i.e. the time between receiving the email and solving the incident for good (with no further replies from users) is 4 days (both weekdays and weekend).
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- No
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Onsite support
- Support levels
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Access to Funding Institutional help desk is included as part of a customer's Funding Institutional licence. The Funding Institutional help desk provides ongoing technical support and training regarding features. Their primary aim is to make sure customers use Funding Institutional efficiently and have the best possible experience with it. Customers can raise a support request using our online ticketing system.
In addition, we provide customers with a Customer Consultant for additional technical support. The Customer Consultant ensures customers use Funding Institutional optimally and assists them with any concerns they have that are not issues for the support desk. - Support available to third parties
- No
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- To help users get started with using Funding Institutional, the Customer Consultant will deliver a customised training based on the needs of the users. Optionally the marketing manager and product manager deliver demos to the users. Extensive and detailed documentation is available to the users.
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Once their contract ends, customers can request for their data to be extracted. The extracted data will be provided as JSON and CSV files depending on the nature of data being exported.
- End-of-contract process
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The costs of the basic end-of-contract process are included in a customer's Funding Institutional licence fee.
Upon end of contract, data for the customer is not destroyed automatically. However, when individual users do not log in to Elsevier products for the amount of time defined by GDPR data retention policies, their user accounts are deleted and data associated with those user accounts are purged.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- No
- Service interface
- Yes
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Description of service interface
- Customers access Funding Institutional in a web-browser. They either require Elsevier credentials and institutions' IP recognition or any other supported SSO system to be integrated.
- Accessibility standards
- None or don’t know
- Description of accessibility
- Funding Institutional features a simple, flexible, and consistent user interface design. Customers can benefit from full-text search, the ability to browse and filter by content type or speciality, and bookmark-friendly content. Accessibility is a high priority on our development team’s roadmap in order to be an AA level.
- Accessibility testing
- Funding Institutional has not yet done any interface testing with users of assistive technology.
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
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We are currently developing a customer-facing API available as part of the FI subscription, for non commercial usage. We expect the API to be released in October 2022.
Subscribed users can go to the Elsevier Dev Portal at https://dev.elsevier.com/ to set up their API services after an API key has been generated at the customer's request. The APIs provide access to funding opportunity and awarded grants data, per the meta data as available in the web application search results page. Every API Key comes with the ability to run a certain number of requests for data from the APIs. Quotas, meaning the number of requests run, are reset every seven days. You can view the quotas and throttling rates of our suite of APIs. Quota limits are unique to each API, there is not a single global setting for a given API Key. If the quota of a particular API is not enough for your project needs, you can write API Support. - API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
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- Open API (also known as Swagger)
- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- No
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- Funding Institutional is hosted on Amazon Web Services and is configured to scale out as the demand on the product services increase.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- Available on demand based on Adobe Analytics. Data includes unique visitors, total visits, total page views, per account.
- Reporting types
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- None
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Managed by a third party
- Penetration testing frequency
- Less than once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- In-house
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
- Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
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- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Users can export results of their searches.
- Data export formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
- XLS
- Data import formats
- Other
- Other data import formats
- Users cannot upload their data.
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
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Our service level agreement (SLA) guarantees a 99.5% system uptime.
Users are not refunded if guaranteed levels of availability is not met. - Approach to resilience
- To provide availability, resilience measures are included in the design. The product is backed by clustering of the application servers. Cloud services utilised by the application are at least as available as the product itself. To ensure resilience backup and data snapshot plans are in place in alignment with Elsevier requirements.
- Outage reporting
- We try to pre-emptively avoid outages by constantly monitoring our production clusters. We currently do not have outage reports.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Funding Institutional does not have a management interface. Only authorised Elsevier employees can access the server infrastructure. All access control is reviewed regularly, and system access is audited. Authorised Elsevier employees access server environments via Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- No audit information available
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- No audit information available
- How long system logs are stored for
- At least 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- SGS United Kingdom Ltd
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 13/05/2021
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Funding Institutional is ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certified.
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
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Elsevier has implemented policies, standards, and guidelines aligned with ISO 27002 domains that govern data access, protection, transport, restriction, retention, deletion, and classification. Policies, standards, and guidelines are reviewed and updated regularly.
We maintain a dedicated Information Security and Data Protection organisation, headed by our Chief Security Information Officer, who is responsible for these policies, standards and guidelines and ensuring all employees adhere to them.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
- All changes to configuration or code are intoduced through a ticketing system. Development team follows agile practices and every ticket is evaluated on the requirements with regards to architecture, security and privacy.
- Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- Services, processes, and technology are implemented to execute internal and external vulnerability scans to identify new application and system vulnerabilities. Identified risks are assessed for their potential impact along with determining appropriate response and remediation actions. We use a combination of network security testing, application security testing, application code review, and penetration testing to assess our information security program, and enhance it appropriately.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- Elsevier’s Information Security and Data Protection (ISDP) team continuously monitor and respond 24/7 to security events. The ISDP team will assess any identified risks for their potential impact and determine the appropriate response and remediation actions. To ensure monitoring is as thorough as possible, Elsevier uses a combination of automated and manual solutions to inspect applications and identify any vulnerabilities that require remediation.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- Elsevier manages incidents using a well-established Security Incident Response process. This process covers all security incidents, including hacker, denial of service, lost asset and virus/worm incidents. When an incident occurs, it is promptly handled by our dedicated Information Security & Data Protection team. They will restore service as soon as possible, determine the cause of the incident, and take appropriate steps to prevent future incidents. Elsevier’s incident response and notification policy sets out how users are notified in the event of information being compromised. We conduct security incident disclosures in compliance with all appropriate regulatory policies and applicable statutory guidelines.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
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Fighting climate change
Implementation of Funding Institutional, as an AWS-hosted product, can influence environmental protection and improvement. We use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for web hosting. For details on their commitment to sustainability in the cloud, see https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/the-cloud?energyType=true.
With different initiatives – such as renewable energy projects, energy efficiency in scale, and water stewardship – AWS enables effective stewardship of the environment in a variety of ways. Using an AWS-hosted, cloud-based product can be an energy-efficient and more environmentally friendly choice than a standard self-hosted product.
We also are mindful of emissions during implementation from travel. When possible, we connect remotely rather than traveling to your location for meetings and training during implementation. In our own operations (including business travel), our emissions were net zero in 2021 through a combination of reduced emissions and the purchase of renewable energy and renewable energy certificates, with the balance offset through Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) credits in a REDD+ carbon sequestration project. Our parent company, RELX, supports global efforts to mitigate climate change through the rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, aiming to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. Also see https://sdgresources.relx.com. - Covid-19 recovery
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Covid-19 recovery
Funding Institutional supports COVID-19 recovery in a variety of ways.
1) To support health and reduced demand on public services:
-As a cloud product, employees using Funding Institutional can work from any location, supporting new ways of working.
-With ease of reporting, employees’ tasks are easier and less time consuming. Reducing routine and mundane tasks contributes to better mental health, and frees up time for other work.
2) To support workplace conditions:
-As an online product, Funding Institutional enables working from non-office locations for effective social distancing; remote and flexible working; and flexible commute times.
Pricing
- Price
- £8,000 to £35,000 a licence a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- Usually Funding Institutional trials last for two weeks, though we can extend them upon request. Prospective customers get access to the full product, just as they would if they have a subscription.