Resources for Research, Worldwide

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Resources for Research, Worldwide
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ECU COS Liaison

• Melody Bentz
• Grant and Contract Officer
• Office of Sponsored Programs
• 252.328.9540
• or
• osp_at_ecu.edu

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• Contents
• Creating your COS Expertise profile
• Updating your COS Expertise profile
• Managing your CV
• Using your COS Workbench

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• Contents
• Creating your COS Expertise profile
• benefits of creating a profile
• a sample profile
• how to create your profile and COS Workbench
• Updating your COS Expertise profile
• Managing your CV
• Using your COS Workbench

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• Benefits of participating in COS Expertise
• Add your profile at no cost for
• Recognition promote your work locally,
  nationally and globally to 1000 academic, media,
  government and corporate organizations.
• An instant home page your profile has a unique
  URL that you can use as a home page.
• Free research services registering gives you a
  COS Workbench and access to free database
  services.
• Easy CV management keep your profile
  up-to-date, and use it to create versions of your
  CV instantly.

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• A sample profile
• To be published, profiles must contain
• Contact information
• An indication of your discipline or expertise.

• Other information is optional
• Photo
• Web page URL
• Past positions
• Expertise statement...

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• Future research
• Industrial relevance
• Languages
• Society memberships
• Patents (which link to full records where
  possible)

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• Funding received
• Publications (which link to MEDLINE abstracts
  where applicable)

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• Creating your COS Expertise profile and COS
  Workbench
• If you have not received an e-mail with your
  username and password, create your own profile
• Go to http//registration.cos.com
• Enter required information
• Click Continue

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• Then
• Provide your contact information
• Click Continue

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• Finally
• Enter your interests
• Choose a username and password
• Review the privacy policy
• Complete your registration

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You then have the choice of starting to fill out
a full profile, or starting to use your Workbench.
Lets add details to the profile now. This works
just like updating your profile.
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Click any Edit button to start adding to
sections of your profile.
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Type or copy and paste information about your
work into the Expertise section, then click
Update.
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For non-journal articles, simply leave the
irrelevant fields blank.
Type or paste in publication information, then
click Add.
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If you have publications in MEDLINE, you can
search for and upload these automatically by
clicking Add a MEDLINE Publication
which opens a citation search window
pre-populated with your name. Pick date(s), do
the search, and choose citations to add to your
profile.
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• Contents
• Creating your COS Expertise profile
• Updating your COS Expertise profile
• Managing your CV
• Using your COS Workbench

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Updating your COS Expertise profile and entering
your COS Workbench If you already have a profile
and Workbench, enter your username and password
at www.cos.com and click Log in. either you
received your username and password in an e-mail
or you chose them when adding your profile
Tip If you are working from your desk, select
the Save My Login box so that, in the future,
you can simply click Log in without needing to
enter your username and password each time.
Tip If you have forgotten your username and
password, follow the Forgot Your Password? link
to ask the COS Help Desk to send them to you.
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A COS Workbench This takes you to your COS
Workbench homepage.
Click any profile section in the left column to
start editing your Expertise profile.
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Privacy and Data Protection You will be prompted
to give COS permission to hold and publish your
profile in COS Expertise. Click Confirm to
continue, or Decline to ask COS to delete your
profile.
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Edit your profile Click any profile section to
start adding to sections of your profile.
Click on View Full Profile to see your whole
profile at once and determine which fields may
need to be updated.
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Tip If your profile is complete and up-to-date,
you may simply click on Click to Verify, which
will indicate to those searching that the profile
has been reviewed and is still current.
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• Contents
• Creating your COS Expertise profile
• Updating your COS Expertise profile
• Managing your CV
• use customize your MyProfile homepage
• produce your curriculum vitae (résumé)
• Using your COS Workbench

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Use your profiles unique MyProfile URL Every
profile has a unique URL that allows you to share
your profile with anyone, regardless of their COS
membership status. It is formed as
follows http//myprofile.cos.com/username
Your MyProfile URL can be found both on your COS
Workbench
Your MyProfile URL can be found both on your COS
Workbenchas well as at the bottom of your
profile.
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For example, make it part of your e-mail
signature.
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Customize Your MyProfile When you direct people
to view your MyProfile online, you can
personalize what they see! This will not affect
your profile when it is viewed through the COS
Expertise search interface.
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For example, you can hide all your contact
information except your email address if that is
your preferred method of communication.
Simply click on the links in the left column to
hide fields, re-order your profile, or customize
the color scheme.
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Produce your CV Turn your COS Expertise profile
into a curriculum vitae, or résumé.
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Choose which sections to include by selecting the
boxes.
Then determine their layout order.
Then click the Submit layout button.
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Select the individual elements e.g.,
publications that you wish to be included. Then
click the Submit form for processing button at
the bottom of the page.
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This opens your word processing application with
a copy of your CV open. (In some browsers, you
will have to save it to disk and then open it.)
You can now edit and save it as you would any
document.
Tip Maintain your publications, grants received
and other information in your profile. Create
versions of your CV as needed, instead of trying
to keep several versions of your CV on your hard
drive up-to-date.
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• Contents
• Creating your COS Expertise profile
• Updating your COS Expertise profile
• Managing your CV
• Using your COS Workbench
• track the views on your profile
• service access anytime or anyplace
• change your username/password

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Track Your Profile You can see how much others
are viewing your profile by checking your COS
Workbench
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Access Services from Anywhere Use your Workbench
to access expertise, funding and other COS
services on or off campus. Simply click on the
appropriate tab.
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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 Change
  User ID Web page.

Key in your new username and old and then new
password, then click Update Now.
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Tip When you are in your Workbench, the top
menu will always be available while browsing COS
Web pages. The Workbench Home link will take
you back to your Workbench home page.
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• With your COS Expertise profile and COS
  Workbench, you can
• Be identified as a potential collaborator by the
  academic, media, government, sponsor and
  corporate organizations that use COS Expertise.
• Use the unique URL of your profile as a home page
  (http//myprofile.cos.com/username).
• Create your CV instantly from your profile.
• Use COS services from any Internet connection.

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Your COS Expertise Profile www.cos.com
Please update your profile regularly!