©2006, CSA Using COS Expertise The Global Researcher Network ®

©2006, CSA COS Expertise ® World’s largest research collaboration network— nearly 500,000 profiles of scientists and scholars Users include nearly 1,000 academic, corporate, sponsor, government and media organizations Individual academics can participate at no cost. Institutional members build their Expertise systems as part of the COS Expertise network.

©2006, CSA Contents Benefits of COS Expertise The COS Profile Using COS Expertise Search Interfaces Special Features of COS Expertise

©2006, CSA 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

©2006, CSA 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 1,000 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

©2006, CSA 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

©2006, CSA Benefits of COS Expertise for COS Member Institutions Catalogue and manage your most valuable resource—the expertise of your people—using COS’s experience and suite of tools, services and individual incentives Disseminate tailored funding information using COS Funding Alert TM Promote your expertise locally, nationally and globally

©2006, CSA 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

©2006, CSA Name Present Position Date of Appointment Institution School Department Other Current Positions Information in an Expertise profile Address Phone Mobile Phone Pager Fax Personal Homepage link Photograph continued

©2006, CSA Honors and Awards Qualifications Professional Memberships Previous Positions Research and Expertise Other Expertise Languages Information in an Expertise profile Patents Research Funding Publications COS Keywords Additional Keywords Industrial Relevance Future Research continued

©2006, CSA Sample COS Expertise Profile Profiles always contain contact information and an indication of the person’s discipline. They may also contain photos, homepages, past positions, expertise statements...

©2006, CSA …future research, industrial relevance, Keywords, languages… …society memberships and patents (which link to full records) …

©2006, CSA …funding received, and publications MEDLINE publications link to abstracts And, where possible, abstracts link back to author profiles and to full article text

©2006, CSA 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 as 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

©2006, CSA 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

©2006, CSA There are five search options at

©2006, CSA 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

©2006, CSA Click a name to see a full profile

©2006, CSA Search/Browse by Institution for searching for experts at a COS member institution

©2006, CSA To search for experts at a COS Member institution click the institution name.

©2006, CSA This search will find 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.

©2006, CSA Select the letter G to search for researchers whose last name begins with G.

©2006, CSA Search on a name of a researcher at this University, or click a letter to list all alphabetically by last name. You can view a profile by clicking a specific name, or move further into the list by clicking on the letter links.

©2006, CSA Search Geographically for searching in particular countries or regions.

©2006, CSA Choose a country from the picklist or click the map to zoom in.

©2006, CSA 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.

©2006, CSA Click ‘Experts in South Africa’ to do a search for researchers based in that country.

©2006, CSA This form looks the same as the main search form, except that the search is restricted to South African researchers.

©2006, CSA Click ‘Experts at Research Institutions in South Africa’ to do a search for researchers at a particular South African institution.

©2006, CSA This works just like main institution search/browse interface. Click an institution name to search for researchers working there 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.

©2006, CSA Search/Browse by Researcher Name for finding particular people, particularly if you are unsure of their exact name.

©2006, CSA This works just like browsing by name within an institution, except you are searching the entire COS Expertise network for researchers world-wide. 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.

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Search by COS Keyword for finding people whose profiles are labeled with particular COS Keywords.

©2006, CSA Click on Open Browser Window to launch a smaller window which allows to add COS Keywords to your COS Expertise search.

©2006, CSA 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.

©2006, CSA Click Keywords to add them to your search form. Tip: Selecting the Explode option will include all terms in the hierarchy underneath the chosen Keyword(s). e.g., exploding the Keyword Education will include the 150+ terms within that category, such as Higher Education, Special Education and Women’s Education.

©2006, CSA 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

©2006, CSA Search Methods – And / Or / Not You can use these special words to connect your search terms for specific results: AND – returns opportunities containing all of the parameters you set e.g., searching for WIND AND ENERGY will find profiles containing the word WIND and the word ENERGY somewhere in the field(s) you are searching. OR – returns opportunities containing any of the parameters you set e.g. searching for WIND OR ENERGY will find all records that contain the word WIND or the word ENERGY, or both. NOT – lets you exclude parameters e.g., searching for WIND NOT ENERGY will find records that contain the word WIND but do not contain the word ENERGY.

©2006, CSA Search Language – other tricks You can use these special characters to connect your search terms for specific results: Wild Card * – find variations on a word e.g., ENVIROMENT* finds profiles with words such as ENVIRONMENTAL and ENVIRONMENTS. 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 two words, such as those with the phrase WIND TURBINE ENERGY.

©2006, CSA Search Language – more tricks You can use these special characters to connect your search terms for specific results: Exact Phrase “ ” – find a precise phrase. e.g., WIND ENERGY in quotation marks finds profiles where these two words appear together as a phrase. 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 for full information about searching. This help documentation is available via the ‘instructions’ link from every COS Expertise page.

©2006, CSA Refine Your Query A search on CANCER in all fields…

©2006, CSA … pulls up over 11,000 profiles. Click ‘Refine Your Query’ to search within these results.

©2006, CSA Enter additional search terms to search within the 11,000+ profiles found in the original search.

©2006, CSA 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. Previous Searches Click ‘Previous Searches’ to review, re-run and save any queries you have done during this browser session.

©2006, CSA 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. 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.

©2006, CSA 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.

©2006, CSA 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 institution’s work locally and globally

©2006, CSA Is your COS Expertise profile up-to-date? COS Expertise