Have a Good Idea?
Need Funding or Collaborators?
Try the Community of Science (www.cos.com)
The Community of Science (COS) is an international collaborative network
of scientists, scholars, and their institutions which provides web-based
tools that promote the visibility and funding of scientific and scholarly
research. UAB pays for an institutional COS membership to provide access
to a number of valuable services.
COS Funding Opportunities (http://fundingopps.cos.com)
continues to grow and now includes more than 15,000 awards from around
the world. This database is the largest source of funding information available
on the Web. Each week COS publishes Funding News which can be delivered
free by e-mail.
Find a Colleague, Collaborator, or Expert with COS
Expertise -- http://expertise.cos.com/
includes profiles of over 200,000 researchers and scholars from leading
research universities, government agencies, and other R&D organizations
around the world. There are now more than 800 UAB profiles in the database.
Some are skeletal profiles imported from grant proposals and other sources.
Your record may be in there and need updating.
Special tools to help you:
UAB faculty members
Quick Forms save time in the preparation of
CV's for grant proposals.
Medline Citation Importer automatically imports
citations into your profile.
Remote searching is available.
Research administrators can use Faculty Match to identify funding sources
for departmental researchers.
Graduate students can locate funding sources and fellowships.
All users can access Funded Research http://fundedresearch.cos.com/
which contains information on awarded research grants from the following
agencies:
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
- Medical Research Council, UK (MRC-UK)
COS New Features:
*Abstract Management System - peer review for professional organizations/societies
*Add a Photo to your Expertise profile. Passport-style (jpg.
or gif).
*COS is an Internet2 Corporate Member (http://www.internet2.edu)
*Full-Text Linking. COS is working with the National Library of Medicine
to make it possible to link to the full text of cited journal articles.
*Geographic Map Interfaces allow users to navigate through continents,
countries, and regions to locate experts and relevant grant information.
The scope of COS is increasingly international
*Investment Tracker provides stock alerts, market analysis, and
portfolio summaries.
uLinks to Full-text U.S. Patents since 1976.
*Meetings and Conferences Database includes calls for papers and conference
information. Conference organizers can advertise meetings at no cost.
*More profiles are in the public view now because of a change in COS
publishing policy. The idea behind this change is that even incomplete
profiles may be useful.
*Publications will be expanded to include books, abstracts, audiovisual
material, and other scholarly work. You will be able to enter information
field by field or by cutting and pasting entire references. .
*Use RecordShare to easily email up to five recipients a direct link
to an individual funding opportunity.
Have questions? Need more training? Forget your username/password?
I am happy to arrange individual appointments to discuss your expertise
profile or searches for funding. We can also schedule customized
departmental workshops in the library or in your area.
That's enough for one update, but stay tuned for more new features!
Nancy W. Clemmons
UAB - COS Liaison
Please note that this is a newsletter. The information and links in individual articles are current as of the date of publication, but they are not kept up-to-date thereafter.
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