COS services are used by over 700 universities around the world'

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COS Worldwide

• COS services are used by over 700 universities
  around the world.
• 8 out of 10 top US universities are COS full
  members.
• Over 70 UK universities subscribe to COS services
• Over one quarter of all Australian universities
  use COS services.

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COS Services used by
Australia
New Zealand
UK
Finland
South Africa
Switzerland
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• COS Expertise
• This database profiles half a million scientists
  and scholars from 125 countries across all
  disciplines.
• COS Expertise is a collaboration network, used by
  over 700 universities and 130 corporate,
  sponsor, government and media organizations to
  find potential partners and reviewers and to
  survey current research.
• Researchers maintain their own profiles, which
  are in turn edited and indexed with COS Keywords
  by COS editors.
• Individual researchers can participate at no
  cost.
• Institutional members build their local expertise
  systems as part of the COS Expertise network.

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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 home page.
• Free research services registering gives you a
  COS Workbench and access to free database
  services.
• Easy CV generation 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 former
  professors and 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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COS Expertise Users

• Corporate, media, government and sponsor
  organizations use COS Expertise to find the
  experts they need as assessors, applicants and
  advisors.

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What is COS Full Membership? COS Full Membership
is a comprehensive package of services used to
manage and enhance an institutions research
capacity. COS will

• Build your institutions expertise system.
• Promote your institutions research globally and
  locally.
• Provide tools to keep your expertise system
  updated and researcher incentives for
  participation.
• Provide tools to facilitate report making and
  system management.
• Distribute all new relevant funding information
  directly to each researcher.
• Produce usage statistics for performance
  assessment.

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COS Membership Summary

• COS Expertise Management System
• Building and maintaining your expertise system.
• Reporting tools and communication services.
• Individual incentives.
• Global promotion of your expertise.
• COS Funding Alert accounts for all academics
• Introductory search automatically set.
• Full individual control over up to five searches.
• Access to COS Funding Opportunities