Proposal Development – Idea Refinement

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As Appalachian State University’s certified Community of Science Liaison, Heather Young can assist with all your COS training needs, including:

  • Editing and updating your COS Profile™
  • Exploring the features on your COS Workbench™
  • Effectively using COS Funding Opportunities to set up and refine searches, save searches for funding alerts, track individual records and share results with colleagues
  • Searching the COS Expertise database to find collaborators, peer reviewers, consultants and other experts.

If you have questions, need assistance or are interested in one-on-one, small group, or departmental training, please contact Heather Young to schedule a session.  Check our events page regularly for COS webinars for faculty.

COS Features & Databases

Community of Science (COS) is the leading global resource for hard-to-find information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines.  COS Editors aggregate valuable information so you spend less precious time and money searching for the information you need, leaving more time and money for your projects. 

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COS Workbench™

Every researcher who registers for a COS account automatically receives a personalized COS Workbench™ from which you will be able to:

  • Review and update your COS Profile™
  • Manage and customize MyProfile.cos.com, a unique web address (URL) of your COS Profile™ that can be seen by both COS members as well as non-members
  • Generate a CV (Microsoft Word-based) on demand, using information for your COS Profile™
  • Manage your saved funding searches and tracked funding records.   From your COS Workbench™, you can run, modify, delete or share your saved COS Funding Opportunities searches (up to 40), and tag, organize, view and share your tracked funding records (up to 200)
  • View COS Funding News and tips
  • Access COS databases 24/7 from any location.

COS Expertise

The leading source of first-person profiles (COS Profile™) of individuals with expertise in any discipline, from life sciences and chemistry, to social sciences and humanities.

  • Researchers, scholars, or other professionals with expertise in their fields can create a COS Profile™, a repository for all information relating to an individual's career, making it is easier to share this information
    • A COS Profile™ is valuable professional tool that makes it easier to further your work and your career in several ways:
      • Promote your work to others in your field across the globe, and to those searching COS Expertise to find collaborators, peer reviewers, consultants and other experts
      • Maintain a secure, comprehensive file of all professional and career information that you keep even if you change positions
      • Quickly update your information as often as necessary, or simply verify that it is still current using easy online forms
      • Use your personalized MyProfile webpage as an electronic CV; include the URL on your business cards or other documents.
  • The database contains 500,000 profiles of researchers, scholars and experts from 1,600 institutions throughout the world. This international database, spanning all academic disciplines, allows you to identify and locate potential collaborators on campus, at other University of North Carolina system campuses, or at other institutions in the United States or internationally
  • Discover who's doing what – current research activity, funding received, publications, patents, new positions and more.

COS Funding Opportunities

COS Funding Opportunities is the largest, most comprehensive database of available funding from federal, state and private funders.

  • More than 25,000 funding opportunity records representing over $33 billion in funding
  • Opportunities by sponsors throughout the world for recipients throughout the world
  • Sponsors include private foundations, public agencies, national and local governments, corporations and more
  • Monies available for work in all disciplines: physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health & medicine, arts & humanities
  • Funding for many purposes, such as research, collaborations, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisitions, capital or operating expenses
  • Updated daily, all information verified with sponsor, edited for consistency and optimized for accurate searching.

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