--- title: Attaining Grant Funding--Best Practices description: OpenScholar sees many best practices in the subtle art of attaining research grant funding. 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This is best practice science story-telling. - C**ollaboration pays** when it comes to getting grant funding: - Collaboration across disciplines continues to receive the support and encouragement of the major governmental grant making bodies. - Funding for cross + multi-disciplinary grants continues to increase each year. - Aligning with more established, senior and prolific researchers can also help - For that reason we built the [**LYNX**](https://lp.theopenscholar.com/lynx) search engine into OpenScholar to enable you to network better and find collaborators faster. - When you do receive grant funding, be open about your work: - **Good stewardship of grant resources means transparency** on the part of the researcher. - Putting your current research into the public realm, in Pre publications and working papers, a funder can see what you're doing, remain informed and not surprised. - A website in the public realm online, unlike a report that gets put in a drawer, is more easily seen and shared and allows a funder to track a project’s progress. 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