Community of Science (COS)
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WHAT IS
COMMUNITY OF SCIENCE?
Community
of Science, Inc. (COS) is a network of researchers and research
organizations on the World Wide Web. Its mission is to help
researchers locate funding, collaborate with colleagues and
promote their research. COS brings together the world's most
prominent scientists and researchers at more than 1,600 universities,
corporations and government agencies worldwide. COS provides
tools and services that enable these professionals to communicate,
exchange information and find the people and technologies that
are important to their work. COS was founded in 1988 by Johns
Hopkins University and is currently a privately held company.
Visit
the COS homepage at: http://www.cos.com/.
Click
here
to create become a registered COS user and begin using the services
described below.
Because Oklahoma
State University is a member institution of COS, its researchers
have free access to the following services and products:
COS Expertise
COS Expertise is an online database containing more than 480,000
first-person profiles of researchers from over 1300 institutions
worldwide. The profiles in COS Expertise include contact information,
positions held, publications, patents, funding received, and a
first-person narrative describing current research activities
and expertise. COS Expertise profiles also include direct links
to e-mail, a personal home page, an online CV, patent abstracts
(and full-text where available), publication abstracts, and available
research grants.
Creating your
own profile takes only a little of your time and gives you a highly
visible vehicle to promote your experience and your research.
You can also use COS Expertise to identify prospective collaborators,
license new technologies, leverage R&D efforts, perform due
diligence, and stay informed about the constantly changing world
of basic science and scholarly research.
Click here
to become a registered COS user and begin creating your own Expertise
profile from your COS Workbench.
COS
Funding Opportunities
COS Funding Opportunities is the largest and most comprehensive
research funding database on the Web. It is an online database,
which is updated daily and contains more than 23,000 records, representing
more than 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion
in potential award dollars.
Individual
researchers and research administrators rely on COS Funding Opportunities
to identify funding information as it relates to research, collaborative
activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships,
post-doctoral positions, equipment acquisition, operating and
capital expenses, and more.
The COS Funding
Opportunities database features numerous search interfaces. To
try a simple keyword search, click here.
COS Funding
Alert
COS Funding Alert is a personalized electronic notification
service of funding information. COS Funding Alert subscribers
receive a weekly e-mail with a customized list of funding opportunities
based on previously specified criteria. The funding information
provided by COS is drawn from regularly-updated information in
the COS Funding Opportunities database. Each funding opportunity
listed in COS Funding Alert contains information such as title,
sponsor, deadline and amount, while also providing a link to more
detailed information.
Click here
to become a registered COS user, which will enable you to sign
up for the COS Funding Alert weekly e-mail notification.
