April 9, 2004

Killing Bytes, Not Trees

By VINCENT KIERNAN

Federal agencies will soon be required to use a common Web site for receiving grant applications from scholars

Whenever the National Institutes of Health invites grant applications from researchers in academe, the response involves a staggering amount of paper.

Forget the neighborhood Federal Express van. The overnight-delivery service often has to dispatch a tractor-trailer to lug the thousands of applications that the NIH receives at each of its three grant deadlines during the

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