Easily Accessible Via Your COS Workbench

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Easily Accessible Via Your COS Workbench
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• COS Funding Alert
• Delivers all new relevant funding information to
  you
• Timely hundreds of opportunities are added and
  updated in COS Funding Opportunities each week.
• Automated relevant new and updated records are
  e-mailed to your desktop each week.
• Customized we set an introductory search for
  you you can refine that search and add up to 19
  additional searches.
• Convenient alerts are easy to use and results
  come in a single weekly e-mail you can also
  download results in your COS Workbench.

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• Contents
• COS Funding Alert Overview
• Managing and Using your Alert Account
• Applications of COS Funding Alert

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• Contents
• COS Funding Alert Overview
• - how it works
• a sample e-mail alert
• Managing and Using your Alert Account
• Helpful Funding Alert Hints
• Benefits of COS Funding Alert

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• How COS Funding Alert Works
• Introductory Search
• Using information in your Expertise profile, COS
  creates an introductory search for you to match
  your COS keywords, location, and eligibility.
  E-mail results arrive each week.
• You can
• Modify the Introductory Search and add up to 19
  additional searches
• View and download each weeks results from your
  COS Workbench
• Turn e-mail delivery on and off

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The results of your Funding Alert search(es) are
returned in a single e-mail each week.
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• Contents
• COS Funding Alert Overview
• Managing and Using your Alert Account
• adding a new search
• modifying an existing search
• adjusting your options
• Helpful Funding Alert Hints
• Benefits of COS Funding Alert

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Improvements to the COS Funding Alert system make
it easier than ever to create a new search.
When you are satisfied with your search criteria,
click Do the search.
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If you would like to receive Funding Alert
e-mails matching your search criteria, click the
Save Search link at the top of the page.
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You will be prompted to log in to your COS
Workbench.
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Tip You can save searches from any results list
from any COS Funding Opportunities search
interface.
You can see that the Grad Student MIS search
has been added to your life of saved Funding
Searches.
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You can also add a search directly from your COS
Workbench by clicking Add a Search.
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You will be taken to the same search form that
you would see if you selected Main Search from
the COS Funding Opportunities Home page.
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Select your criteria, and do your search. This
search is looking for all travel opportunities
for Undergraduate Students that are US Citizens
sponsored by Private Foundations.
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Save your search by clicking Save Search at the
top of the results list page.
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• Contents
• COS Funding Alert Overview
• Managing and Using your Alert Account
• adding a new search
• modifying an existing search
• adjusting your options
• Helpful Funding Alert Hints
• Benefits of COS Funding Alert

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To edit an existing search, click the Edit link
to the right of the search name that you wish to
edit.
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You will see a COS Funding Opportunities search
form pre-populated with the search criteria that
you selected in your initial search.
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Reminder You are seeing your search criteria run
against the entire Funding Opportunities database
to give you an idea of what kind of search
results you can expect to see. Your Funding
Alert e-mail will contain results of these search
criteria that have been run against only new or
updated Funding Opportunities in the database for
the past week.
If these search results are satisfactory, click
Save Search
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You will be asked to re-verify the search name,
whether youd like to receive e-mail about this
alert, and that youd like any COS keywords to be
displayed in your Expertise profile.
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Your search has been updated on your COS
Workbench.
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• Contents
• COS Funding Alert Overview
• Managing and Using your Alert Account
• adding a funding new search
• modifying an existing search
• track individual records
• adjusting your options
• Helpful Funding Alert Hints
• Benefits of COS Funding Alert

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COS Record Track and Alert
You can now track and receive e-mail alerts about
individual COS Funding Opportunities.
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Click on the individual funding opportunity that
is of interest to you.
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If you would like to save this opportunity and
receive e-mail alerts when it is updated, click
Track this record on my Workbench.
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You will be prompted for your COS Workbench
username and password.
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You will then be asked if you would like to
receive an e-mail when new information is
available about this opportunity. Click Save
This Search.
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You can track up to 100 opportunities.
Whenever the opportunity is updated you will see
the Recently Updated message on your Workbench.
The Kimmel Scholar Award has been added to your
list of tracked opportunities.
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• Contents
• COS Funding Alert Overview
• Managing and Using your Alert Account
• adding a funding new search
• modifying an existing search
• track individual records
• adjusting your options
• Helpful Funding Alert Hints
• Benefits of COS Funding Alert

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Edit your options by clicking the Options link
on your COS Workbench.
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From this page you can manage different aspects
of your COS Funding Alert account and create some
demographic defaults for new searches.
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Choose which of your COS Keywords are displayed
in your Expertise profile, or delete a keyword
entirely.
Manage your Keywords.
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• Contents
• COS Funding Alert Overview
• Managing and Using your Alert Account
• adding a new search
• modifying an existing search
• adjusting your options
• Helpful Funding Alert Hints
• Benefits of COS Funding Alert

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If you delete or misplace your COS Funding Alert
e-mail, you can always view it online through
your COS Workbench. Click the hyperlinked number
of new results for the past week to see your new
Funding Alert results.
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These are the two opportunities that were in the
saved Medical Technology search for the past
week. Click on the hyperlinked grant title to see
the full COS Funding Opportunities record.
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This is the full COS Funding Opportunities record
returned from your COS Funding Alert.
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You can also run your Funding Alert search
against the entire Funding Opportunities
database. You will see every opportunity that
matches your search criteria, not just the
results that were added or updated in the past
week.
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You can now see all 70 funding records that
contain the word Biochemistry and are for
Graduate or Undergraduate Students.
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You can choose which COS Funding Alert searches
you would like to be alerted about with a weekly
e-mail.
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Now my Anthro Grad Students search will be
included in my weekly COS Funding Alert e-mail.
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You can view several weeks worth of COS Funding
Alert archives from your COS Workbench. Click
Archives to proceed.
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Click on the week for which you want to see your
COS Funding Alert archives.
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Next, click on the hyperlinked search title to
see your archived results.
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You can now see the 8 results from my Civil
Engineering search for the week of June 25.
Click on the hyperlinked grant title to see the
full record.
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• Contents
• COS Funding Alert Overview
• Managing and Using your Alert Account
• Helpful COS Funding Alert Hints
• Benefits of COS Funding Alert
• time savings
• useful for management
• - tips for individuals

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Time Savings

• Automatically finds and disseminates funding
  information from the worlds largest and most
  comprehensive funding database.
• Sends only relevant informationyou no longer
  need to scan through general listings or to
  search the Web.

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Management Uses

• Monitoring funding across an entire discipline.
• Helping the graduate office identify
  scholarships, postdocs, assistantships and
  dissertation funds for students.
• Facilitating collaboration using associated COS
  management tools.

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• Tips for Individuals
• Set your user defaults to pre-set your alert
  searches with the correct citizenship(s).
• In addition to finding standard funding in your
  field, create alert searches to find funding to
• attend a particular upcoming conference
• support your research students work
• pay for new equipment

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• Tips for Individuals
• Take full advantage of COS Funding Alerts
  ability to save 20 different searches.
• Experiment to refine your results e.g., set up
  one search by Keywords and another by terms in
  All Fields to find results most relevant to you.

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COS Funding Alert available via your COS
Workbench login at www.cos.com
Let COS find funding for you