Using COS Expertise

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Using COS Expertise The Global Researcher Network

http//expertise.cos.com
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• COS Expertise
• Worlds largest research collaboration
  networknearly 500,000 profiles of scientists
  and scholars
• Users include nearly 1,000 academic, corporate,
  sponsor, government and media organizations
• Individual academics can participate at no cost.
• Institutional members build their Expertise
  systems as part of the COS Expertise network.

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• Contents
• Benefits of COS Expertise
• The COS Profile
• Using COS Expertise Search Interfaces
• Special Features of COS Expertise

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• Contents
• Why use it? Benefits of COS Expertise
• - as an individual
• as an institution
• The COS Profile
• Using COS Expertise Search Interfaces
• Special Features of COS Expertise

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• Individual Benefits of COS Expertise
• Add your profile, at no cost, for
• Recognition of your work promote your work
  locally, nationally and globally to over 1,000
  academic, media, government and corporate
  organizations
• An instant home page your profile will have a
  unique URL that you can use as a professional
  home pageyours for life
• Easy CV management keep your profile up to date,
  and use it to create versions of your CV
  instantly

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• Individual Benefits of COS Expertise
• Search COS Expertise to
• Find old friends see what your colleagues are
  doing
• Survey the competition what are others in your
  field working on?
• Identify potential collaborators seek peers
  across disciplines, across borders, or even just
  across the hall
• Stimulate research ideas read about what others
  are doing to inspire new directions for your work

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• Benefits of COS Expertise for COS Member
  Institutions
• Catalogue and manage your most valuable
  resourcethe expertise of your peopleusing COSs
  experience and suite of tools, services and
  individual incentives
• Disseminate tailored funding information using
  COS Funding AlertTM
• Promote your expertise locally, nationally and
  globally

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• Contents
• Benefits of COS Expertise
• What is it? The COS Profile
• - the information in a profile
• - a sample profile
• Using COS Expertise Search Interfaces
• Special Features of COS Expertise

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Information in an Expertise profile

• Name
• Present Position
• Date of Appointment
• Institution
• School
• Department
• Other Current Positions
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• Address
• Phone
• Mobile Phone
• Pager
• Fax
• E-mail
• Personal Homepage link
• Photograph

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Information in an Expertise profile
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• Honors and Awards
• Qualifications
• Professional Memberships
• Previous Positions
• Research and Expertise
• Other Expertise
• Languages

• Patents
• Research Funding
•   Publications
•   COS Keywords
•   Additional Keywords
•   Industrial Relevance
•   Future Research

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They may also contain photos, homepages, past
positions, expertise statements...
Sample COS Expertise Profile Profiles always
contain contact information and an indication of
the persons discipline.
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future research, industrial relevance, Keywords,
languages
society memberships and patents (which link to
full records)
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And, where possible, abstracts link back to
author profiles and to full article text
funding received, and publications
MEDLINE publications link to abstracts
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At the bottom of each profile you will also find
the date the researcher last updated the
profile,...
a unique URL that will take you directly to this
profile (many researchers use this as a personal
home page)...
tools for instantly creating a CV from the
profile and (for subscribing institutions) an NIH
funding application form...
and a search form to match the profile to
funding information in COS Funding Opportunities
by matching Keywords
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• Contents
• Benefits of COS Expertise
• The COS Profile
• How do I search it? The search interfaces
• - search all
• search/browse within an institution
• search geographically
• search/browse by researcher name
• search by COS Keyword Index
• Special Features of COS Expertise

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There are five search options at http//expertise.
cos.com
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Tip The Limit search to Full Profiles box
will limit your search to more complete profiles.
To also include short profiles in your search
those that contain contact details and limited
expertise information deselect this box
This search, with BALLET OR DANCE in All Fields,
will find all people with one and/or the other of
these words anywhere in their profiles.
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Click a name to see a full profile
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This search will find any researchers at Carnegie
Mellon who use the exact phrase reflection
fluorescence in their expertise statements
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To browse by researchers names at a particular
institution, choose Browse and click the
institution name.
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Select the letter G to search for researchers
whose last name begins with G.
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You can view a profile by clicking a specific
name, or move further into the list by clicking
on the letter links.
Search on a name of a researcher at this
University, or click a letter to list all
alphabetically by last name.
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Search Geographically for searching in particular
countries or regions.
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Choose a country from the picklist or click the
map to zoom in.
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Click Experts in Africa to restrict your
expertise search to researchers working on the
African continent
or search within a particular country by
clicking the country name or choosing it from the
picklist.
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Click Experts in South Africa to do a search
for researchers based in that country.
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This form looks the same as the main search form,
except that the search is restricted to South
African researchers.
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Click Experts at Research Institutions in South
Africa to do a search for researchers at a
particular South African institution.
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Tip The institution names are linked to a
search screen only if there are over 20 experts
listed for that institution. You also can use the
institution field in the search interfaces to
find people at particular institutions.
This works just like main institution
search/browse interface. Click an institution
name to search for researchers working there
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Search/Browse by Researcher Name for finding
particular people, particularly if you are unsure
of their exact name.
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Entering ST into the search box will pull up
all researchers in the network whose surnames
start with ST. This interface automatically
inserts a wildcard () at the end of your search
term.
This works just like browsing by name within an
institution, except you are searching the entire
COS Expertise network for researchers world-wide.
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Search by COS Keyword for finding people whose
profiles are labeled with particular COS Keywords.
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Click on Open Browser Window to launch a smaller
window which allows to add COS Keywords to your
COS Expertise search.
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This opens the main search page and the Keyword
browser window.
Click the signs or folder icons to browse the
Keyword hierarchy
or search for terms in the hierarchy here.
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Click Keywords to add them to your search form.
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• Contents
• Benefits of COS Expertise
• The COS Profile
• Using COS Expertise Search Interfaces
• Special Features of COS Expertise
• - search methods
• refining a query
• saving your search
• viewing more than one profile at a time

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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//expertise.cos.com/quickguide.shtm
l for full information about searching. This help
documentation is available via the instructions
link from every COS Expertise page.
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Refine Your Query A search on CANCER in all
fields
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pulls up over 11,000 profiles. Click Refine
Your Query to search within these results.
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Enter additional search terms to search within
the 11,000 profiles found in the original search.
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This finds all profiles within those results that
contain the word skin and/or the word
melanoma. If your results list is still very
long, you may wish to refine the search further.
Previous Searches Click Previous Searches to
review, re-run and save any queries you have done
during this browser session.
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To save the search to run later, go to File, Save
As and save the page to your hard drive. Then
open the file at any time in your browser to run
same the search against COS Expertise in the
future.
This lists all of the searches in COS Expertise
you have done while your browser was open. Click
a query link to re-run it.
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View Multiple Records To view more than one
profile on one page, select the relevant profiles
in your results list and then click View on the
Viewing Manager. The Viewing Manager is at the
bottom of every Expertise results list.
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• COS Expertise
• Helps individual researchers to
• Promote your work
• Find potential collaborators
• Track the work of your competitors
• Helps COS member institutions to
• Make the most of your expertise resources
• Distribute all new funding information
  automatically
• Promote the institutions work locally and
  globally

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COS Expertise http//expertise.cos.com
Is your COS Expertise profile up-to-date?
Contact the Office of Sponsored Programs
Administration with any questions. Diane M.
Meyer, Proposal Team Director meyerd_at_iastate.edu
515-294-4567