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The University of Ottawa has created an innovative scholarship service : a database that allows prospective and current students to search for scholarships for which they are eligible, and to apply for them online. Searchers create a personal and academic profile, which they can save on the site ; data from that profile is then checked against the criteria for scholarships in the database, and matching scholarships are displayed. Results can be sorted in ascending or descending order by scholarship name, value, and application deadline. Scholarships which have been viewed (or at least clicked on) by the user are marked as ’’read’’ — a useful feature when a sample search yields 122 hits, as a test search did. Results can also be sorted by ’’read’’ and ’’unread.’’ Users can save their profile on the site, edit it, and re-run the search as often as they wish.