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File Description [top]

Federal Research In Progress (FEDRIP) database provides access to information about ongoing federally funded research projects in the fields of physical sciences, engineering, and life sciences. Research information is provided to NTIS by the sponsoring U.S. government agencies. All records in the database include title, principal investigator, performing organization, and sponsoring organization. Most records also include a description of the research, although the exact record content varies according to the sponsoring agency. File 266 is available worldwide, as of May 1998.

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Subject Coverage [top]

Research summaries are contributed by the following U.S. federal agencies. (Other agencies may be added in the future.)

• Department of Agriculture (AGRIC)
• Department of Energy (ENRGY)
• Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines (INTBM)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Bureau of Standards and Technology (NBS)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Nuclear Regulatory Commmission (NRC)
• Public Health Service, including National Institutes of Health (CRISP)
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
• Geological Survey (USGS)
• Veterans Administration (VA)

Print Counterparts [top]

• None

Dialog File Data [top]

Database Content [top]

• Research Project Descriptions

Document Types Indexed [top]

• Reports
• Government Documents

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Geographic Restrictions [top]

• None

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• KWIC and HILIGHT Available
• Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

Contact [top]

Terms and Conditions [top]

This Database was compiled from a variety of United States Government, foreign government, non-government sources. Many of the summaries in the Database are copyrighted by the contributors and the Database as a whole is copyrighted by NTIS outside the United States. You are responsible for complying with all applicable copyright, export control or other laws that may affect your use of any information product listed in the Database.

The Database is licensed "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. You agree that NTIS has no responsibility for the accuracy of the content of any information product described in the Database.

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SAMPLE RECORD [top]

BASIC INDEX [top]

¹ Company Name, CO=, includes both Performing Organization (PO= and CS=) and Sponsoring Organization (SP=).

² Also /DF.

³ Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

⁴ Principal Investigator and Associate Investigators for a Performing Organization are searchable as both IN= and as Author, AU=.

⁵ Completion Date present in all subfiles except CRISP, FHWA, NASA, NSB, SBIR, and VA. May omit the two digit day in the date.

⁶ Performing Organization searchable as PO=, and CS=, Corporate Source, and as Company, /CO and CO=.

⁷ Consists of Performing Organization's City.

⁸ Funding present in the CRISP, EPA, FHWA, INTBM, NSF, and SBIR subfiles. FD= contains the value as displayed, while FU= is rounded down to the first digit.

⁹ Numeric values for Funding can be entered in several different ways: directly as a number, e.g., S FD=391809; in exponential notation, e.g., S FD=3.0E5:4.0E5. Letter abbreviations are also available: K for thousand, M or million, B for billion, e.g., S FD=391K:392K. To search a range of values, use a colon between starting and ending values, e.g., S FD=391000:392000, OR use relational operators (>, <, >=, and <=), e.g., S 390K<=FD<=400K.

¹⁰ For a current list of FEDRIP file segments see HELP CODES266.

¹¹ Present in the CRISP, EPA, FHWA, INTBM, NBS, NRC, NSF, SBIR, and USGS subfiles.

¹² Present only in the FHWA, NASA, and NRC subfiles.

¹³ Display includes Performing Organization, Sponsoring Organization, Sponsor Identifying Number, Completion Date, Start Date, and Fiscal Year.

¹⁴ Consists of Performing Organization's State. State may be spelled out or abbreviated, depending on subfile.

¹⁵ Present only in the FHWA, INTBM, NSF, NRC, and SBIR subfiles.

¹⁶ File is reloaded, so only update code available is UD=9999. DIALOG Accession Numbers change with the monthly reload.

¹⁷ Not present as a separate field only in the CRISP and USGS subfiles.

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USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

Rates [top]

Rates For File: Federal Research in Progress (FEDRIP)[266]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $5.00
Cost per minute:                   $1.35
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $3.50    $3.50
     3    $3.50    $3.50
     4    $3.50    $3.50
     5    $3.50    $3.50
     6    $0.00    $0.00
     7    $3.50    $3.50
     8    $0.00    $0.00
     9    $3.25    $3.25
    14    $3.50    $3.50
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00