Preservation and Access Reference Materials Grants

The summary for the Preservation and Access Reference Materials Grants grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Endowment for the Humanities, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Preservation and Access Reference Materials Grants: These grants support projects that create reference works and research tools. Eligible projects include: * databases and electronic archives that codify and integrate humanities materials, or provide bibliographical control of a subject or field; * print and online encyclopedias about various fields in the humanities or about a particular area or subject; * historical, etymological, and bilingual dictionaries for undocumented languages, as well as reference grammars and other linguistic tools (separate funding is available for endangered language projects in partnership with the National Science Foundation); * tools for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographical information systems (GIS); and * descriptive catalogs that provide detailed information about humanities materials.