COS Workbench

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• COS Workbench
• When you create a profile in COS Expertise, this
  also creates your COS Workbench.
• The workbench provides editing access to your
  profile, to several free services and databases,
  and to any subscription services provided by your
  institution.
• The workbench provides remote access to all COS
  services from any Internet connection.

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• Contents
• COS Workbench Overview
• Logging into your COS Workbench
• Services on the COS Workbench
• Navigating your COS Workbench

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• Contents
• COS Workbench Overview
• - free services
• member services
• Logging into your COS Workbench
• Services on the COS Workbench
• Navigating your COS Workbench

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• Free Services on the Workbench
• Update Your COS Expertise Profile
• Change your Username and Password
• Produce Your CV transform your profile into a
  CV, exporting custom versions to your word
  processor.
• Customize your Workbench choose which services
  appear and in which order, and create a color
  scheme.
• Search COS Meetings and Conferences keep up to
  date with upcoming meetings and conferences.
• Science News daily news feeds from Reuters.
• Discussion Forums participate in discussions
  about current issues in RD.
• Track Funded Research search databases of
  projects funded by NIH, SBIR, USDA, NSF and MRC
  (UK).

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Member Services on the Workbench Any subscription
services from COS your institution provides,
including - COS Funding Opportunities - COS
Funding Alert - COS Expertise - bibliographic
databases are also available to you via your COS
Workbench.
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• Contents
• COS Workbench Overview
• Logging into your COS Workbench
• Services on the COS Workbench
• Navigating your COS Workbench

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Tips If you are working from your desk, tick
the Save My Login box so that, in the future, you
can simply click on Log in without needing to
enter your username and password each time. If
you have forgotten your username and password,
click on Forgot Your Password?
Logging into your COS Workbench Enter your
username and password at the left hand side of
www.cos.com. You either created these when
entering a profile at login.cos.com, or will have
received them in an e-mail.
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A COS Workbench This takes you to your COS
Workbench homepage.
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• Contents
• COS Workbench Overview
• Logging into your COS Workbench
• Services on the COS Workbench
• COS Funding News
• COS Meetings and Conferences
• discussion forums
• Funded Research databases
• instant, custom CV creation
• remote access to all services
• your profile URL
• Navigating your COS Workbench

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Browse COS Funding News topics that list a
sampling of new and interesting opportunities in
over a dozen categories. You can also sign up to
receive the general COS Funding News weekly
newsletter via e-mail.
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For example, the postdoctoral Funding News,
published bi-weekly.
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Search over 1000 upcoming Meetings and
Conferences by topic or by society.
Read breaking research news from Reuters, updated
hourly.
Participate in discussion forums on current
research topics.
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Search for funded research projects sponsored
currently or in the past by NIH, NSF, USDA, SBIR
or MRC (UK).
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Produce your CV from your COS Expertise profile.
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Untick any individual elements e.g.,
publications that you do not wish to be
included, and click on the Submit form for
processing button at the bottom of the page.
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• Tips
• Update your expertise profile before using it to
  create your CV.
• Add your new publications as they are published
  and create versions of your CV as needed, rather
  than updating several versions of your CV on your
  hard drive.
• After clicking on Submit form for processing,
  you will be prompted to open or save the
  document. If your word processing package fails
  to launch, save the document to your hard drive,
  and open it from there.

This opens your word processing application with
a copy of your CV open. You can now edit and save
this document as you would any document.
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Access Services At Home If your university is a
COS member, then you can also use your workbench
to access all membership services on or off
campus. These include COS Funding Opportunities,
COS Expertise and your COS Funding Alert account.
Please see relevant tutorials on how to best use
them.
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Use your profiles unique URL Every profile has a
unique URL listed at the bottom. It is formed as
follows http//myprofile.cos.com/username Use
this link to provide information about yourself
to others, for example, by making it part of your
e-mail signature.
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• Contents
• COS Workbench Overview
• Logging into your COS Workbench
• Services on the COS Workbench
• Navigating your COS Workbench
• - customize content, order and appearance
• change your username/password

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Customize Your Workbench
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Change your username and password
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• Tips
• Your username must be unique
• Your username forms part of the unique URL of
  your profile http//myprofile.cos.com/username
• Both username and password must be 4-15
  characters long.
• They are not case sensitive. Permitted
  characters are listed on the page.

Key in your new username and old and then new
password, then click on Update Now
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A COS Workbench home page
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COS Workbench