The NIH has released a beta version of its Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool Expenditures and Results (RePORTER) tool. The CRISP database has been retired as of September 1, 2009 and replaced by RePORTER. CRISP will remain available until November 1, 2009 to allow users to transition, but CRISP support is no longer being provided.

RePORTER eases the task of searching for comprehensive funding information on NIH grants and contracts and offers a more user-friendly system. This new tool retains all of the features of CRISP while providing additional query fields, hit lists that can be sorted and downloaded to Excel, NIH funding for each project (award amounts), and the publications and patents that have acknowledged support from each project (results).

RePORTER combines NIH project databases and funding records, PubMed abstracts, full-text articles from PubMed Central, and information from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with a robust search engine, allowing users to locate descriptions and funding details on NIH-funded projects along with research results that cite the NIH support. User-defined searches allow refining, exporting and analyzing results and permit insights into NIH spending, as well as research results across NIH-funded projects, institutions, investigators or scientific concepts. Searching for grants funded by the Recovery Act is made especially easy by a checkbox that limits searches to that area of interest. A special ARRA Report link offers a series of “canned” searches by state, Congressional district and institution.

New features will be added to RePORTER in several releases throughout fiscal year 2010. The web address is http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm.

Source: NIH News (http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2009/od-04.htm), September 4, 2009