community of science funding opportunities and funding alerts
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WHAT IS COS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES?
Community of Science (COS) is an online, subscription database of announcements for grants, fellowships and awards from around the world
Provides general phrase searches or detailed advanced searches, specifying a wide range of criteria from grant amount to location to deadline
Don’t let the name fool you! COS provides opportunities in all disciplines:
physical sciences, social sciences, life sciences, health & medicine, arts & humanities.
WHAT COS CAN PROVIDE
Over 25,000 records representing over $33 billion in funding.
Sponsors throughout the world for recipients throughout the world.
Access to private foundations, public agencies, national and local governments, corporations and more.
Funding for research, collaborations, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisitions, capital or operating expenses.
Timely information that is verified with sponsor, edited for consistency and optimized for accurate searching.
ACCESSING COS
Method 1 – Without a Password Access is granted from any on-campus
computer without a username or password at http://fundingopps.cos.com/
ACCESSING COS
Method 2 – With a Password Username and Password Access is necessary
when: A user is off-campus A user needs to save a funding record or search
(which you need to do to set up a Funding Alert)
SETTING UP A USERNAME AND PASSWORD
Go to http://www.cos.com/ and click the “New User? Register Free” icon near the
top left of the screen.
SETTING UP A USERNAME AND PASSWORD
Fill in the Required Information
Ensure you select American University from the
dropdown list of institutions, so that you will be
authenticated properly and be granted access to all
services to which we subscribe
SEARCHING COS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Method 1 - Free-Text Simple Search (http://fundingopps.cos.com/)
Enter Keywords
SEARCHING COS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Results shown using “OR” logic
Shows previous searches
from current session
SEARCHING COS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Results shown using “OR” logic
Allows for a downloaded
list of selected records within
the search
SEARCHING COS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Advanced Search
Allows for keyword search by Sponsor, Abstract or Title Results sortable by relevancy, amount, deadline and
more
COS FUNDING ALERT
Utilizes user defined criteria to check COS Funding Opportunities database for updated information about funding in the user's area of interest. View tutorial at http://www.cos.com/alert_tutorial/ Saves up to 40 funding searches as alert searches Specify for which searches to receive email updates Review an archive of weekly alert results Receive email alerts when any tracked records are
updated--up to 200 Your weekly results include the Title, Sponsor,
Deadline, Amount
3- Type of Funding
GUIDED SEARCH WIZARD
Notice the number of opportunities
changing as you move through each
step
QUESTIONS?More information about COS Funding
Opportunities is available at http://fundingopps.cos.com