http://fundingopps.cos.com

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http//fundingopps.cos.com
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COS Funding Opportunities
Helps you find the funding information you need
quickly and easily.

• Comprehensive contains over 23,000 records from
  numerous sponsor types across all disciplines,
  making it the worlds largest funding database.
• Easy to use offers varied and intuitive search
  interfaces, downloadable search results, direct
  links to records, and search tracking/saving.
• Current information updated daily by a team of
  specialized editors.
• Quality data obtained directly from the
  sponsoring organizations to ensure quality and
  reliability.

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• Contents
• A COS Funding Opportunities Record
• Using COS Funding Opportunities Search Interfaces
• Special Features of COS Funding Opportunities
• Applications of COS Funding Opportunities

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• Contents
• A COS Funding Opportunities Record
• Using COS Funding Opportunities Search Interfaces
• Special Features of COS Funding Opportunities
• Applications of COS Funding Opportunities

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Every COS Funding Opportunities record contains
the information you need to decide if you might
wish to apply.
Information in the record includes deadline,
award amount, and citizenship, location and
organization-type requirements
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as well as abstract, full contact information,
the date the record was last revised
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a URL for bookmarking the record, and a short
form for finding other, similar opportunities.
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• Contents
• A COS Funding Opportunities Record
• Using COS Funding Opportunities Search Interfaces
• main search
• simple search
• search wizard
• view by sponsor
• search geographically
• Special Features of COS Funding Opportunities
• Applications of COS Funding Opportunities

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Main Search Use this option for searching the
entire database.
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Search by entering phrases in All Fields and
Deadline this search will find records that
contain the both the word HIGHER and the word
EDUCATION anywhere in the record, and have
deadlines that are continuous or are after
September 1, 2005.
The main search interface
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This search found 708 results.
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From the Main Search form you may also choose to
search by COS Keywords. Clicking on Browse
opens a Keyword browser window.
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COS Keyword Browser
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Tip Hold the Control (PC) or Open Apple
(Mac) key to select more than one item from a
pick list
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Simple Search This interface is for basic
searching. Entering free text in the text box
will search all of the Funding Opportunities
fields for your search criteria.
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Search Wizard Use the Funding Opportunities
Search Wizard for a step-by-step process to help
you set up your funding search.
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First, indicate which of the choices best
describes you or your employer.
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Next, specify the country or countries of which
you are a citizen or permanent resident.
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Note As you fill in your search criteria, the
Search Summary on the left side of the screen
will show what youve chosen so far. It will
also tell you how many opportunities your search
currently returns. You may choose to see those
results at any time.
Then indicate which funding type you are
interested in receiving.
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Now, select which Sponsor Types interest you.
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Click on Show Results to see the list of
funding opportunities for your specified
criteria.
Finally, enter which terms best describe your
field of interest.
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View by Sponsor Search the COS Funding
Opportunities database by sponsor by clicking.
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Search for a sponsor using the text box or browse
for one by clicking on a letter.
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This brings you a list of all sponsors starting
with U. Click a sponsor name to find all
current opportunities from that sponsor, e.g.,
United Nations (UN).
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These search results list all current UN
opportunities
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Search Geographically Use this option to easily
limit searches by citizenship, sponsor country,
or activity location
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The Geographic interface for the funding and
expertise databases. Choose a country from the
picklist or click the map to zoom in.
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Choose to see funding from Australia-based
sponsors.
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Click on the appropriate link to see a list of
Funding Opportunities from Australia-based
sponsors with deadlines in the next 6 weeks.
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See Funding Opportunities by sponsor.
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A list of all Australia-based sponsors. Click
the hyperlinked sponsor name to see the open
funding opportunities from that sponsor.
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View funding opportunities from Australia-based
sponsors by subject area.
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Click View next to the subject area for which
you are interested in seeing Funding
Opportunities.
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View funding opportunities by popular sponsor
types.
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Click View for the funding type that interests
you.
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Search for funding for Australian citizens.
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You are taken to a page identical to the Funding
Opportunities main search page, but you will see
that the citizenship has been pre-selected to
Australia. Use this search form the same way you
would use the main search form.
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Search for funding for your research to be
conducted in Australia.
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Use this search form to search for funding for
research activities to be conducted in Australia.
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• Contents
• A COS Funding Opportunities Record
• Using COS Funding Opportunities Search Interfaces
• Special Features of COS Funding Opportunities
• - search language
• share a record
• download your results
• refine your query
• save your search
• Applications of COS Funding Opportunities

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• Search Methods And / Or / Not
• You can use these special words to connect your
  search terms for specific results
• AND returns opportunities containing all of the
  parameters you set
• e.g., searching for WIND AND ENERGY will find
  profiles containing the word WIND and the word
  ENERGY somewhere in the field(s) you are
  searching.
• OR returns opportunities containing any of the
  parameters you set
• e.g. searching for WIND OR ENERGY will find all
  records that contain the word WIND or the word
  ENERGY, or both.
• NOT lets you exclude parameters
• e.g., searching for WIND NOT ENERGY will find
  records that contain the word WIND but do not
  contain the word ENERGY.

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• Search Language other tricks
• You can use these special characters to connect
  your search terms for specific results
• Wild Card find variations on a word
• e.g., ENVIROMENT finds profiles with words such
  as ENVIRONMENTAL and ENVIRONMENTS.
• Proximity w/ find words used together but not
  necessarily in an exact phrase
• e.g., WIND w/2 ENERGY finds profiles where these
  two words are separated by not more than two
  words, such as those with the phrase WIND TURBINE
  ENERGY.

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• Search Language more tricks
• You can use these special characters to connect
  your search terms for specific results
• Exact Phrase find a precise phrase.
• e.g., WIND ENERGY in quotation marks finds
  profiles where these two words appear together as
  a phrase.
• Precedence ( ) execute a series of search
  commands in a particular order.
• e.g., (HIV OR AIDS) NOT EDUCATION finds profiles
  with the terms HIV and/or AIDS, then excludes
  those with the word EDUCATION.

Tip See http//fundingopps.cos.com/docs/userguid
e.shtml for full information about searching.
This help documentation is available via the
instructions link from every COS Expertise page.
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COS Record Share You can e-mail any record to
colleagues, even if they dont have access to COS
Funding Opportunities.
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Fill out the form, listing up to 5 recipient
e-mail addresses, then send.
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Your colleague will receive an e-mail with a link
to the funding opportunity that is good for 14
days.
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Download Your Results To download and save your
results, click download citations to jump to
the form at the bottom of the results page.
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This example is set to download 4 records in HTML
format with the full record content.
Pick the records, format and content you want to
download. Then download.
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This is the download of the full records in HTML
format. Go to File then Save as to save it
to open and read later offline.
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Refine Your Query Start with a broader search,
then narrow it down by searching within your
results. This example shows a search with 895
initial results.
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You will be taken back to the main search form
that will show you your previous choices. Add
skin to your original search of cancer to
search within the initial 895 results.
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Query Track This feature keeps all searches
during a session. Use it to save your searches
to run against new and updated data in the
future.
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Clicking any query link will re-run that search
again. Save this page to open later and run the
same searches again against updated data.
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• Contents
• A COS Funding Opportunities Record
• Using COS Funding Opportunities Search Interfaces
• Special Features of COS Funding Opportunities
• Applications of COS Funding Opportunities

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• COS Funding Opportunities
• Includes lesser-known funding sources, such as
  new or highly specialized sources, as well a
  conventional sources
• Covers all disciplines humanities and arts as
  well as the sciences
• You can send opportunities to colleagues,
  download your results to review later, and save
  your searches.
• Opportunities for graduate and undergraduate
  students as well as professionals
• Search tools help you target funding that is
  relevant to you, filtering out irrelevant records

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