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Financial Aid Resources at Copley Library
When searching for information in these resources, be aware that many of them organize the information by entry number instead of by page number. All titles are in REFERENCE unless otherwise noted.

Financial Aid for Specific Groups
General Financial Aid
Grants
On The Web
Study Abroad
Internships

FINANCIAL AID FOR SPECIFIC GROUPS
LB2338 D564 Directory Of Financial Aids For Women
Arranged by scholarships, fellowships, loans, grants, awards, and internships, the focus of this resource is financial aid programs primarily or exclusively for women. Includes a subject index.

LB2338 .F5643
LB2338 .F5644
LB2338 .F5645
LB2338 .F5646 Financial Aid for African Americans
Financial Aid for Asian Americans
Financial Aid for Hispanic Americans
Financial Aid for Native Americans
Provides scholarship, fellowship, grant, award, on-the-job training, and internship sources specifically for minorities. Covers every major subject area and grade level, from high school through postdoctoral and professional.

LB2337.2 .F58 Financial Aid for the Disabled And Their Families
Offers information on financial aid programs designed primarily or exclusively for persons with disabilities and their families. Entries are grouped into six chapters: Visual Disabilities, Hearing Disabilities, Orthopedic and Developmental Disabilities, Communication and Other Disabilities, Disabilities in General, and Families of the Disabled. Each chapter offers information on fellowships, grants, loans, grants-in-aid, and awards.

LB2338 .M56 The Minority and Women's Complete Scholarship Book
Lists over 1,200 sources of non-government college financial aid for women, minorities, and people with disabilities. About half of the listings are college-specific - meaning that the aid recipient must attend a particular college.

LB2338 .F47 Financial Aid for Veterans Military Personnel, and Their Dependents,
Scholarships, fellowship, grant, loan, grants-in-aid, and award information for over 1,000 programs intended specifically for veterans, military personnel, and their dependents. Includes subject index.

RT79 .P48 Peterson's Nursing Programs
Mainly a guide for finding nursing education programs, this volume also contains a small chapter entitled Sources for Financial Aid for Nursing Students.

RT79 .S3652 Scholarships and Loans for Nursing Education
Lists scholarships, fellowships, grants, traineeships, and loans using numerical codes 1-8 to indicate student eligibility for each program. The Appendix provides a directory of state boards of nursing.

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GENERAL FINANCIAL AID
LA226 .C685 The College Blue Book (volume 5)
Offers information on scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans. Table of contents organizes subjects under nine categories.

LB2337.2.C64 College Student's Guide to Merit and Other No-Need Funding
Offers financial aid resources for those who need help paying for college but do not fall into a specific need category.   Arranged by subject, this resource focuses on the currently-enrolled or returning student and includes only merit and no-need funding (i.e., none of the programs focus on income as a selection criterion).

LB2338 .C653 The Complete Scholarship Book
New edition of a guide to some 3,000 sources for scholarships, grants, work programs, and loans from the private sector. Entries include amount of available award, deadlines, fields/majors, sponsor's address, plus any further information needed. Indexes identify awards by such criteria as major or career objective, ethnic background, gender, religion, marital status, military background, inter-collegiate athletics, and whether or not a student or parent is disabled.

LB2337.4 .D65 Don't Miss Out: The Ambitious Student's Guide to Financial Aid
Presents effective strategies for cutting through red tape to find grants, loans, scholarships, and tax credits.

LB2338 .K39 Financial Aids for Higher Education
Geared toward graduating high school seniors and undergraduates, this resource contains over 3,000 scholarship programs, including program descriptions, eligibility requirements, application procedures, and restrictions. The Program Finder allows users to quickly locate appropriate programs.

LB2338 .G685 The Graduate Student's Complete Scholarship Book
Lists more than 1,100 scholarship and grant sources for those seeking financial aid to pursue graduate, doctoral, postdoctoral, or professional studies. The book uses a variety of icons on the entries to facilitate finding resources appropriate to the field of study.

LB2338 .S339 How To Find Out About Financial Aid and Funding
Identifies, describes, evaluates, and compares the more than 600 resources that provide current information on funding opportunities for individuals and organizations. Each entry includes symbols that indicate the format in which the resources are available (e.g., hard copy, diskette, or Internet).

LB2337.2 .M6
LB2337.2 .M664
LB2337.2 .M666
LB2337.2 .M667 Money for Graduate Students in the Biological & Health Sciences
Money for Graduate Studentsin the Humanities
Money for Graduate Students In The Sciences
Money for Graduate Students in the Social Sciences
Gives information on over 1,000 fellowships, grants, awards, and forgivable loans specifically for graduate students of the fields specified in each volume.

LB2337.2 .C65 Peterson's College Money Handbook
Includes Federal and State financial aid programs, including scholarships, grants and loans. Describes financial aid packages available at over 1,800 colleges and universities in the U.S.

LB2338 .S347 Scholarships
Only free money is identified. Divided into four categories -- Unrestricted by Subject Area, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. An Appendix with Federal and State financial aid information and a Sponsoring Organization Index are found at the end of the book.

LB2337.2 .S28 The Scholarship Book
Based on information from the National Scholarship Research Service database, this resource includes information on private-sector scholarships, fellowships, grants and loans for undergraduates. The Quick Find Index and the Field of Study Index allow the researcher to find quickly scholarships for which they might be eligible.

LB2338 .S35 Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans
Includes listings for over 4,400 education-related major awards available to U.S. and Canadian students. Includes web and e-mail addresses when available.

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GRANTS
AS911.A2 A67 Annual Register Of Grant Support
Supplies information on over 3,000 grant support programs that include a variety of subject areas. Includes web addresses and e-mail contacts.

R850.A1 D57 Directory Of Biomedical and Health Care Grants
Offers information on over 10,000 grants programs related to the biomedical and health care fields. Includes web addresses for Internet resources

AZ188.U5 D56 Directory of Grants in the Humanities
Provides information on over 4,000 funding resources that support research and study in literature, language, linguistics, history, anthropology, philosophy, ethics, religion, and the fine and performing arts. The Subject Index is useful for quickly finding programs that fund a particular field of study.

LB2338 .D57 Directory of Research Grants
Lists nearly 6,000 research funding programs in medicine, the physical and social sciences, the arts and humanities, and education. Includes a guide for proposal and grant writing, pertinent web sites, and a subject index.

LB2337.3 .F55 The Financial Aid Book
Listing almost 3,000 sources for scholarships, grants, loans, fellowships, student competitions, and specialized loans. Use the Index: College Major / Field of Study in the front of the book to quickly find information on resources related to the student's interests or academic level.

LB2337.2 .B57
LB2337.2 .B58 Free Money for College
Free Money for Graduate School
Arranged by subject area, offers information on over 1,000 grants and scholarships.

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R840 .G733
Q181 .G596
H62 .G723 Grantfinder Arts And Humanities
Grantfinder Medicine
Grantfinder Science
Grantfinder Social Sciences
International in scope, grant information is supplied directly by the awarding organizations. Subject and eligibility guide allows researcher to browse according to interests.

PN171.P75 G73 Grants and Awards Available to American Writers
Lists more than 1,000 grants and awards for use by American writers in the U.S. and abroad. The Index of Categories at the back of the book lists programs by type of writing (e.g. fiction, poetry, journalism).

LB2338 .G7 The Grants Register
Intended for those at or above the post-graduate level. Provided by the grant awarding organizations, information is arranged by organization, subject and eligibility (by country). Use the first pages in the Subject and Eligibility Guide to locate chosen subject with greater ease.

AS911.A2 I55 International Foundation Directory
International in scope, contains information on foundations, trusts, charitable and grant-making non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that make grants either to organizations or to individuals. Coverage spans over 100 countries and contains information on over 2,000 organizations, arranged by country. Includes web addresses and e-mail contacts when available.

LB2337.2 .P46 Peterson's Grants for Graduate and Postdoctoral Study
This resource contains information on 1,900 grants, scholarships, awards, fellowships, and prizes targeted exclusively to graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and beginning researchers.

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ON THE WEB
CaliforniaColleges.edu Financial Aid Guide
http://www.californiacolleges.edu/FinAid/
A combined effort by California State University (CSU), University of California (UC), California Community Colleges (CCC), Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU), and the Department of Education. Provides free, basic information on applying for financial aid and allows those who register to perform scholarship searches.

FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/
Secure and free, this site allows students to apply for government-sponsored loans, grants, and work-study programs. Also available in Spanish.

Fastweb.com
http://www.fastweb.com/
As the oldest and most popular free online scholarship matching service, this database has more than 600,000 scholarships totaling over $1 billion. For students searching for a college, FastWeb can match a student's background with two- and four-year colleges across the country. Registration, which is free, is necessary to use this resource.

FinAid
http://www.finaid.org/
Provides free information about a variety of financial aid.

National Scholarship Research Services
http://www.800headstart.com/
The World's largest and oldest private sector College Scholarship database. Twenty years of Scholarship Research, constantly updated.

Institute of International Education
http://www.iiepassport.org
The IIE Passport site provides information for students and scholars planning to engage in international study. The organization's site at http://www.iie.org includes information on Fulbright Fellowships.

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STUDY ABROAD
LB2376 .L4 Academic Year Abroad
Organized geographically, this resource provides information on more than 2,600 programs for study abroad.

LB2337.2 .F572 Financial Aid for Research and Creative Activities Abroad
Offers information on over 1,300 funding opportunities for Americans interested in research, creative, professional, or related activities abroad. Includes web sites when available.

LB2337.2 .F576 Financial Aid for Study and Training Abroad
Provides information on more than 1,000 funding opportunities for Americans (levels range from high school through post-doctorate and professional) interested in pursuing structured or independent study abroad. Includes a geographic and subject index. There is a useful Annotated Bibliography of General Financial Aid Directories beginning on page 343.

GoAbroad.com
http://www.goabroad.com/
GoAbroad.com links prospective travelers with organizations providing international opportunities. GoAbroad.com focus is to provide a one-stop information center for students wishing to travel internationally.

LB2376 .P48 Peterson's Study Abroad: A Guide to Semester and Yearlong Academic Programs
Provides information on over 1,600 study abroad programs, including Country-to-Country Programs that incorporate travel among several countries as part of the curriculum.

LB2338 .S7 Study Abroad
Published by UNESCO, contains information for over 2,600 opportunities for post-secondary studies in 129 countries and territories. Presented in English, Spanish, and French according to the language in which the information was provided by source.

StudyAbroad.com
http://studyabroad.com/
http://gradschools.com/
This handy web guide and database contains information on many different programs for study abroad. Information is free, but registration is required to enable contact and communication between student and prospective program sponsors. For those interested in Graduate School abroad, a sister site called GradSchools.com may also prove very useful.

LB2375 .S8 Vacation Study Abroad
Provides information on over 2,600 summer programs lasting from one week to several months.

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INTERNSHIPS
LC1072.I58 P75 America's Top Internships
Features detailed profiles of over 100 internships, with company information and firsthand insight from former interns, thorough portraits of day-to-day responsibilities, and a complete guide to applying. Includes information on selectivity, compensation, and deadlines for applying.

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Page by Jack Albrecht
Questions/Comments: Contact Karen Sharpe
Updated 01/19/02

LB2338 D564	Directory Of Financial Aids For Women Arranged by scholarships, fellowships, loans, grants, awards, and internships, the focus of this resource is financial aid programs primarily or exclusively for women. Includes a subject index.
LB2338 .F5643 LB2338 .F5644 LB2338 .F5645 LB2338 .F5646	Financial Aid for African Americans Financial Aid for Asian Americans Financial Aid for Hispanic Americans Financial Aid for Native Americans Provides scholarship, fellowship, grant, award, on-the-job training, and internship sources specifically for minorities. Covers every major subject area and grade level, from high school through postdoctoral and professional.
LB2337.2 .F58	Financial Aid for the Disabled And Their Families Offers information on financial aid programs designed primarily or exclusively for persons with disabilities and their families. Entries are grouped into six chapters: Visual Disabilities, Hearing Disabilities, Orthopedic and Developmental Disabilities, Communication and Other Disabilities, Disabilities in General, and Families of the Disabled. Each chapter offers information on fellowships, grants, loans, grants-in-aid, and awards.
LB2338 .M56	The Minority and Women's Complete Scholarship Book Lists over 1,200 sources of non-government college financial aid for women, minorities, and people with disabilities. About half of the listings are college-specific - meaning that the aid recipient must attend a particular college.
LB2338 .F47	Financial Aid for Veterans Military Personnel, and Their Dependents, Scholarships, fellowship, grant, loan, grants-in-aid, and award information for over 1,000 programs intended specifically for veterans, military personnel, and their dependents. Includes subject index.
RT79 .P48	Peterson's Nursing Programs Mainly a guide for finding nursing education programs, this volume also contains a small chapter entitled Sources for Financial Aid for Nursing Students.
RT79 .S3652	Scholarships and Loans for Nursing Education Lists scholarships, fellowships, grants, traineeships, and loans using numerical codes 1-8 to indicate student eligibility for each program. The Appendix provides a directory of state boards of nursing.

LA226 .C685	The College Blue Book (volume 5) Offers information on scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans. Table of contents organizes subjects under nine categories.
LB2337.2.C64	College Student's Guide to Merit and Other No-Need Funding Offers financial aid resources for those who need help paying for college but do not fall into a specific need category. Arranged by subject, this resource focuses on the currently-enrolled or returning student and includes only merit and no-need funding (i.e., none of the programs focus on income as a selection criterion).
LB2338 .C653	The Complete Scholarship Book New edition of a guide to some 3,000 sources for scholarships, grants, work programs, and loans from the private sector. Entries include amount of available award, deadlines, fields/majors, sponsor's address, plus any further information needed. Indexes identify awards by such criteria as major or career objective, ethnic background, gender, religion, marital status, military background, inter-collegiate athletics, and whether or not a student or parent is disabled.
LB2337.4 .D65	Don't Miss Out: The Ambitious Student's Guide to Financial Aid Presents effective strategies for cutting through red tape to find grants, loans, scholarships, and tax credits.
LB2338 .K39	Financial Aids for Higher Education Geared toward graduating high school seniors and undergraduates, this resource contains over 3,000 scholarship programs, including program descriptions, eligibility requirements, application procedures, and restrictions. The Program Finder allows users to quickly locate appropriate programs.
LB2338 .G685	The Graduate Student's Complete Scholarship Book Lists more than 1,100 scholarship and grant sources for those seeking financial aid to pursue graduate, doctoral, postdoctoral, or professional studies. The book uses a variety of icons on the entries to facilitate finding resources appropriate to the field of study.
LB2338 .S339	How To Find Out About Financial Aid and Funding Identifies, describes, evaluates, and compares the more than 600 resources that provide current information on funding opportunities for individuals and organizations. Each entry includes symbols that indicate the format in which the resources are available (e.g., hard copy, diskette, or Internet).
LB2337.2 .M6 LB2337.2 .M664 LB2337.2 .M666 LB2337.2 .M667	Money for Graduate Students in the Biological & Health Sciences Money for Graduate Studentsin the Humanities Money for Graduate Students In The Sciences Money for Graduate Students in the Social Sciences Gives information on over 1,000 fellowships, grants, awards, and forgivable loans specifically for graduate students of the fields specified in each volume.
LB2337.2 .C65	Peterson's College Money Handbook Includes Federal and State financial aid programs, including scholarships, grants and loans. Describes financial aid packages available at over 1,800 colleges and universities in the U.S.
LB2338 .S347	Scholarships Only free money is identified. Divided into four categories -- Unrestricted by Subject Area, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. An Appendix with Federal and State financial aid information and a Sponsoring Organization Index are found at the end of the book.
LB2337.2 .S28	The Scholarship Book Based on information from the National Scholarship Research Service database, this resource includes information on private-sector scholarships, fellowships, grants and loans for undergraduates. The Quick Find Index and the Field of Study Index allow the researcher to find quickly scholarships for which they might be eligible.
LB2338 .S35	Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans Includes listings for over 4,400 education-related major awards available to U.S. and Canadian students. Includes web and e-mail addresses when available.

AS911.A2 A67	Annual Register Of Grant Support Supplies information on over 3,000 grant support programs that include a variety of subject areas. Includes web addresses and e-mail contacts.
R850.A1 D57	Directory Of Biomedical and Health Care Grants Offers information on over 10,000 grants programs related to the biomedical and health care fields. Includes web addresses for Internet resources
AZ188.U5 D56	Directory of Grants in the Humanities Provides information on over 4,000 funding resources that support research and study in literature, language, linguistics, history, anthropology, philosophy, ethics, religion, and the fine and performing arts. The Subject Index is useful for quickly finding programs that fund a particular field of study.
LB2338 .D57	Directory of Research Grants Lists nearly 6,000 research funding programs in medicine, the physical and social sciences, the arts and humanities, and education. Includes a guide for proposal and grant writing, pertinent web sites, and a subject index.
LB2337.3 .F55	The Financial Aid Book Listing almost 3,000 sources for scholarships, grants, loans, fellowships, student competitions, and specialized loans. Use the Index: College Major / Field of Study in the front of the book to quickly find information on resources related to the student's interests or academic level.
LB2337.2 .B57 LB2337.2 .B58	Free Money for College Free Money for Graduate School Arranged by subject area, offers information on over 1,000 grants and scholarships.
LB2337.2 .G736 R840 .G733 Q181 .G596 H62 .G723	Grantfinder Arts And Humanities Grantfinder Medicine Grantfinder Science Grantfinder Social Sciences International in scope, grant information is supplied directly by the awarding organizations. Subject and eligibility guide allows researcher to browse according to interests.
PN171.P75 G73	Grants and Awards Available to American Writers Lists more than 1,000 grants and awards for use by American writers in the U.S. and abroad. The Index of Categories at the back of the book lists programs by type of writing (e.g. fiction, poetry, journalism).
LB2338 .G7	The Grants Register Intended for those at or above the post-graduate level. Provided by the grant awarding organizations, information is arranged by organization, subject and eligibility (by country). Use the first pages in the Subject and Eligibility Guide to locate chosen subject with greater ease.
AS911.A2 I55	International Foundation Directory International in scope, contains information on foundations, trusts, charitable and grant-making non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that make grants either to organizations or to individuals. Coverage spans over 100 countries and contains information on over 2,000 organizations, arranged by country. Includes web addresses and e-mail contacts when available.
LB2337.2 .P46	Peterson's Grants for Graduate and Postdoctoral Study This resource contains information on 1,900 grants, scholarships, awards, fellowships, and prizes targeted exclusively to graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and beginning researchers.

	CaliforniaColleges.edu Financial Aid Guide http://www.californiacolleges.edu/FinAid/ A combined effort by California State University (CSU), University of California (UC), California Community Colleges (CCC), Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU), and the Department of Education. Provides free, basic information on applying for financial aid and allows those who register to perform scholarship searches.
	FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ Secure and free, this site allows students to apply for government-sponsored loans, grants, and work-study programs. Also available in Spanish.
	Fastweb.com http://www.fastweb.com/ As the oldest and most popular free online scholarship matching service, this database has more than 600,000 scholarships totaling over $1 billion. For students searching for a college, FastWeb can match a student's background with two- and four-year colleges across the country. Registration, which is free, is necessary to use this resource.
	FinAid http://www.finaid.org/ Provides free information about a variety of financial aid.
	National Scholarship Research Services http://www.800headstart.com/ The World's largest and oldest private sector College Scholarship database. Twenty years of Scholarship Research, constantly updated.
	Institute of International Education http://www.iiepassport.org The IIE Passport site provides information for students and scholars planning to engage in international study. The organization's site at http://www.iie.org includes information on Fulbright Fellowships.

LB2376 .L4	Academic Year Abroad Organized geographically, this resource provides information on more than 2,600 programs for study abroad.
LB2337.2 .F572	Financial Aid for Research and Creative Activities Abroad Offers information on over 1,300 funding opportunities for Americans interested in research, creative, professional, or related activities abroad. Includes web sites when available.
LB2337.2 .F576	Financial Aid for Study and Training Abroad Provides information on more than 1,000 funding opportunities for Americans (levels range from high school through post-doctorate and professional) interested in pursuing structured or independent study abroad. Includes a geographic and subject index. There is a useful Annotated Bibliography of General Financial Aid Directories beginning on page 343.
	GoAbroad.com http://www.goabroad.com/ GoAbroad.com links prospective travelers with organizations providing international opportunities. GoAbroad.com focus is to provide a one-stop information center for students wishing to travel internationally.
LB2376 .P48	Peterson's Study Abroad: A Guide to Semester and Yearlong Academic Programs Provides information on over 1,600 study abroad programs, including Country-to-Country Programs that incorporate travel among several countries as part of the curriculum.
LB2338 .S7	Study Abroad Published by UNESCO, contains information for over 2,600 opportunities for post-secondary studies in 129 countries and territories. Presented in English, Spanish, and French according to the language in which the information was provided by source.
	StudyAbroad.com http://studyabroad.com/ http://gradschools.com/ This handy web guide and database contains information on many different programs for study abroad. Information is free, but registration is required to enable contact and communication between student and prospective program sponsors. For those interested in Graduate School abroad, a sister site called GradSchools.com may also prove very useful.
LB2375 .S8	Vacation Study Abroad Provides information on over 2,600 summer programs lasting from one week to several months.