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Library Journal Review
This specialized directory is derived from the Oryx Press's GRANTS database. The 1925 entries include not only foundation and federal grants, but many prizes, awards, and contests. Unlike Grants in the Humanities (Neal-Schuman, 1984. 2d ed.), which limits its focus to funding sources for scholars, this directory also provides information on sources for grant seekers outside of the academic environment. Each entry includes a description of the program, restrictions, requirements, grant amount, deadlines, contact address and telephone number, etc. The prefatory material clearly explains the use of the Directory and its three indexes: subject, sponsoring organization, and sponsoring organization by type. The text is attractive and well laid out. Recommended. Sybil Brigham McShane, Vermont Dept. of Libraries, Montpelier (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
CHOICE Review
One of a family of new grants directories, the other two being Directory of Biomedical and Health Care Grants (1985) and the forthcoming Directory of Grants in the Physical Sciences. All are spin-off publications from the Directory of Research Grants (1986), one of the best directories to grants available in American libraries. All are computer-searchable on Dialog (file 85) and also via SDC. The directory reviewed here contains 1,925 references to funding programs that support research and performance in literature, language, linguistics, history, anthropology, philosophy, ethics, religion, and fine and performing arts. Funding sources include foundations, corporations, state and federal government agencies, and professional associations. The grants themselves are primarily suitable for individual recipients, to be used for research, travel, fellowships, internships dissertation support, conferences, and performances. For each program, a description of the purposes and goals of the program, limitations and requirements, grant size, subject, contact name and address, application due date, and references to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (19th ed., 1985), are given. There are a subject index and two lists of sponsoring organizations. Many entries would be useful to social scientists, indexed under such subjects as ``education,'' ``international affairs,'' or ``cultural programs.'' Competitors are the Annual Register of Grant Support (14th ed., 1984), which includes all disciplines but few corporate entries; Foundation Grants to Individuals (4th ed., 1984), foundations only; and Grants in the Humanities (2nd ed., 1984), less directory information. Belongs in every college library with research expectations for its faculty, and every university library serving graduate students and faculty in the humanities.-A. Haigh, Michigan State University
Booklist Review
The introduction to the Directory of Grants in the Humanities (DGH) indicates that this directory is one of three new specialized directories created to serve specific portions of the research and performance community. The other two are the Directory of Biomedical and Health Care Grants and the Directory of Grants in the Physical Sciences. They are the latest additions to Oryx Press' grants family of electronic and print publications i.e., the Grants online database, updated monthly, and its annual print version, Directory of Research Grants (DRG), which was reviewed in the July 1986 RBB. The DRG is published in December; the DGH was published in the spring of 1986. It is essentially a more recent spin-off of the Grants database. Grant seekers using DGH are reminded by the publisher to check the Grants database for the most current information. DGH lists more than 1,900 funding programs available from federal and state government agencies, foundations, corporations, and professional organizations and associations. In addition, a few non-U.S. organizations business and professional and governmental are listed (e.g., Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies). The concept of ``the humanities'' is a generous one, embracing literature, language, linguistics, history, anthropology, philology, ethics, religion, and the fine and performing arts. Programs fund research, travel, internships, fellowships, dissertation support, conferences, and performances. DGH consists of a ``Grants Programs'' section, a subject index, sponsoring organizations index, and sponsoring organizations by type index. Main entries in alphabetical order provide the following information on grant programs: accession number; program descriptions stating the programs' functions and goals; programmatic restrictions and/or requirements; subject index terms(s); contact persons and sponsors' names, addresses, and telephone numbers; funding amounts, deadlines; and the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance numbers (if applicable) The subject index lists program titles, with accession numbers, under applicable terms. The sponsoring organizations index lists programs alphabetically by sponsors' names. The sponsoring organizations by type index lists sponsors and their addresses in two sections: business and professional organizations and governmental agencies. It should be noted that alphabetizing in DGH differs from that in DRG 1986. In the various sections of DRG grant programs were entered under forenames; therefore, the Eleanor Steber Music Foundation Vocal Competition and the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation Grants Program are under E. In DGH they are entered under surnames (i.e., S, L). Entries in the subject index of DGH are also reordered. In DRG the sequence is Art Administration; Art (Conferences); Art Criticism; Art (Dissertation Support); . . . Art (Undergraduate Education). In DGH it is Art (Conferences); Art (Dissertation Support); . . . Art (Undergraduate Education); Art Administration; Art Criticism. That there are programs in DGH that are not to be found in DRG 1986 can be shown by this random sampling of entries: Canadian History in DRG and DGH has 3 and 10 entries, respectively; Canadian Literature rose from 17 to 23; Children's Literature, from 16 to 23; Chinese History, from 6 to 8; and Folk Art, from 13 to 21. Grant seekers in the humanities may continue to find additional grant programs in the latest editions of such titles as Annual Register of Grant Support; Corporate 500: The Directory of Corporate Philanthropy; Foundation Directory; Foundation Grants to Individuals; National Directory of Grants and Aid to Individuals in the Arts; National Directory of Arts Support by Business Organizations; and National Directory of Arts Support by Private Foundations. Libraries that own these titles and the DRG will have to consider if the more up-to-date coverage of the Directory of Grants in the Human
