Step 1: access the database

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Step 1 access the database

• Go to http//www.infoed.org/new_spin/spin.asp
• If you using an on-campus computer, go to the
  next step
• If you are using an off-campus computer fill in
  the Username and Password boxes in the screen
  above. See the email with the subject "using
  spin" of 4/28/08 for these.

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Step 2 SPIN landing page

• At this page, click on the Advanced Search link
  in the bottom left hand corner.

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Step 3 Advanced Search Landing Page
Keywords link is here ?

• At this page, click on the Keywords link

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Step 4 Keywords landing page

• Check the Humanities box and click the Select
  button

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Step 5 Run search
Run search ?

• Scroll down to the bottom of this page and click
  the run search button

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Step 6 Search total list of Humanities listings
Search button ?
? Choose button
Keyword ?

• Run search produces a large list of anything
  tagged as a humanities listing. To refine this
  search, scroll to the bottom of the page and put
  in a relevant keyword in the box on the left.
  Next, choose the button Search Within Existing
  Results on the right. Finally, click on the
  button Search Spin

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Step 7 Search results

• Choose the listings from the search results that
  interest you. You can mark listings on
  successive pages.

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Step 7 Create List from Marked Records

• To create a list of just the funding
  opportunities that interest you, find the report
  box at the bottom of the results list from your
  search, and click the buttons as shown Whole
  Search, Full Program, Display to Browser/Print.
• Then click on the Build button.

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Step 8 Generated List

• Review on screen or print out. When youre done,
  you can scroll to the bottom of your list, click
  on the back to results link, then at the
  results page click on the Advanced Search link
  at top, and finally on that advanced search page
  click on the Run button. Then begin Step 5
  with new keywords.