Upgraded Search Features: Field Codes and Precision Enhancements
Last updated on August 22, 2025
We are excited to announce a new capability in our keyword search feature: the introduction of field codes. You can now search for a term in a specific field of a funding opportunity or awarded grant by entering the field code in the search bar, providing precise control over your searches. In addition to the field codes, we have fine-tuned our search rules to allow for more precise searches, ensuring the most relevant results for our users.
Field codes for Opportunity searches:
Category | Name | Field Code | Field Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Textual content | Title | TITLE | Title of the funding opportunity | TITLE(dementia) will return funding opportunities where ‘dementia’ is in the opportunity title |
Textual content | Description | DESCR | Description of the funding opportunity | DESCR(AMR OR “antimicrobial resistance”) will return funding opportunities where either the keyword AMR or the term ‘antimicrobial resistance’ is in the opportunity description |
Textual content | Eligibility | ELIG | Eligibility section of the funding opportunity | ELIG(soci*) will return opportunities where the keywords society, or social etc. appear in the eligibility section of the opportunity |
Field codes for Awarded Grant searches:
Category | Name | Field Code | Field Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Textual content | Title | TITLE | Title of the awarded grant | TITLE(gut AND microbiome) will return awarded grants where both keyword ‘gut’ and ‘microbiome’ are in the title of the awarded grant |
Textual content | Description | DESCR | Description section of the awarded grant | DESCR(neoplasm OR tumor) will return awarded grants where either ‘neoplasm’ or ‘tumor’ appears in the description section of the awarded grant |
Awardee Information | Surname | SURNAME | Surname of the awardee | SURNAME(smith) will return awarded grant where the awardee surname includes ‘smith’ |
Awardee Information | Given Name | GIVEN | Given name of the awardee | GIVEN(john) will return awarded grants where the awardee’s given name includes John |
Important to note:
- You need to use field codes all in capitals and with (round brackets) around the keyword
- Boolean operators also need to be used all in capitals
- When no Boolean operator is used in a search with multiple keywords, an OR operator will be used in the search logic, for example brain cancer is equivalent to brain OR cancer. Same applies to field code searches TITLE(brain cancer) is equivalent to TITLE(brain OR cancer), which will return results with either brain or cancer in the title.
- The symbol logical operators !, && and || are the equivalent of NOT, AND and OR respectively
- Field codes cannot be used in Advanced Search
- Field codes can be combined using the Boolean operators, for example SURNAME(smith) AND GIVEN(john)
- Using no field codes mean that you search in all data fields of opportunities and awarded grants
- Searching for loose/approximate terms you may use “double quotation marks”, between the (round brackets) following the field code, for example TITLE(“brain injury”), which will return results having ‘brain injury’ or ‘brain injuries’ or ‘brain injured’ etc. in the title.
- To find opportunities or awarded grants that contain an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in {curly brackets}. For example TITLE({brain injury}) will return results having ‘brain injury’ in the title.
- Only prefix wildcards are supported with the minimum prefix length being 3 characters, for example cat* is supported, *cat is not supported.
- Wildcards may be used for the keyword between the round brackets following the field code