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http//expertise.cos.com
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• COS Expertise
• With profiles of half a million scientists and
  scholars, COS Expertise is the worlds largest
  research collaboration network.
• Users include nearly 1000 academic, corporate,
  sponsor, government and media organizations, who
  search COS Expertise to find the academic
  expertise they need.
• Individual academics can participate in COS
  Expertise 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 1000
  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 page yours 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 resource
  the expertise of your people using 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
1.  Name of Researcher      2.  Present
Position      3.  Date of Appointment     
4.  Institution      5.  School     
6.  Department      7.  Other Current
Positions      8.  Address  
9.  Phone   10.  Fax   11.  E-mail
12.  Personal Home Page link   13.  Photograph
14. Honors and Awards    
15.  Qualifications   16.  Professional
Memberships 17.  Previous Positions  
18.  Research and Expertise   19.  Other
Expertise   20.  Languages   21.  Patents  
22.  Research Funding   23.  Publications  
24.  COS Keywords   25.  Additional Keywords  
26.  Industrial Relevance   27.  Future Research
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Sample COS Expertise Profile They always contain
contact information and an indication of the
persons discipline.
They may also contain photos, homepages, past
positions, expertise statements...
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future research, industrial relevance, Keywords,
languages
society memberships and patents, which link to
full records,
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funding received, and publications.
MEDLINE publications link to abstracts.
And, where possible, abstracts link back to
author profiles and to full article text.
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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 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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The five search options http//expertise.cos.com
Search All option for searching the entire
database
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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.
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.
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Click a name to see a full profile.
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Search/Browse by Institution option for searching
for experts at a COS member institution.
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To search for experts at a COS Member
institution, choose Search and click the
institution name.
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This finds 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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Search on a name of a researcher at this
University, or click a letter to list all
alphabetically by surname.
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This lists alphabetically all of the researchers
at this University whose surnames start with the
letter R.
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Search Geographically option for searching in
particular countries or regions.
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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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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 option 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 option for finding people
whose profiles are labeled with particular COS
Keywords.
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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
• If you connect your search terms or fields with
• AND, then the search will only find the
  opportunities that contain all of the parameters
  you set e.g., if you type WIND AND ENERGY the
  search will find profiles that contain the word
  WIND and the word ENERGY somewhere within the
  field(s) you are searching.
• OR e.g., ENVIRONMENT OR ECOSYSTEM will find all
  records that contain the word ENVIRONMENT or the
  word ECOSYSTEM, or both words.
• NOT e.g., CHINESE NOT HAMSTERS will find
  records that contain the word CHINESE but exclude
  those that contain the word HAMSTERS even if the
  word CHINESE also appears.

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• Search Language other tricks
• Wild Card find variations on a word. E.g.,
  ENVIROMENT finds profiles with words such as
  ENVIRONMENTAL and ENVIRONMENTS.
• Exact Phrase find a precise phrase. E.g.,
  WIND ENERGY in quotation marks finds profiles
  where these two words appear together.
• 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 three words, such as
  those with the phrase WIND TURBINE ENERGY.
• 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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Previous Searches Click Previous Searches to
review, re-run and save any queries you have done
during this browser session.
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.
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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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