1. The Global Researcher Network
Using COS Expertise
The Global Researcher Network

2. 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.

3. Contents Benefits of COS Expertise The COS Profile
Using COS Expertise Search Interfaces
Special Features of COS Expertise

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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 AlertTM
Promote your expertise locally, nationally and globally

8. 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

9. Information in an Expertise profile
Name
Present Position
Date of Appointment
Institution
School
Department
Other Current Positions
   
Address
Phone
Mobile Phone
Pager
Fax
Personal Homepage link
Photograph
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10. Information in an Expertise profile
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Honors and Awards
Qualifications
Professional Memberships
Previous Positions
Research and Expertise
Other Expertise
Languages
Patents
Research Funding
  Publications
  COS Keywords
  Additional Keywords
  Industrial Relevance
  Future Research

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

12. …society memberships and patents (which link to full records)…
…future research, industrial relevance, Keywords, languages…

13. And, where possible, abstracts link back to author profiles and to full article text
MEDLINE publications link to abstracts
…funding received, and publications

14. …and a search form to match the profile to funding information in COS Funding Opportunities by matching Keywords
…tools for instantly creating a CV from the profile and (for subscribing institutions) an NIH funding application form...
…a unique URL that will take you directly to this profile (many researchers use this as a personal home page)...
At the bottom of each profile you will also find the date the researcher last updated the profile,...

15. 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

16. There are five search options at

17. 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
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.

18. Click a name to see a full profile

19. Search/Browse by Institution
for searching for experts at a COS member institution

20. To search for experts at a COS Member institution click the institution name.

21. This search will find any researchers at Carnegie Mellon who use the exact phrase ‘reflection fluorescence’ in their expertise statements

23. To browse by researchers’ names at a particular institution, choose ‘Browse’ and click the institution name.

24. Select the letter G to search for researchers whose last name begins with G.

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

26. Search Geographically
for searching in particular countries or regions.

27. Choose a country from the picklist or click the map to zoom in.

28. … or search within a particular country by clicking the country name or choosing it from the picklist.
Click ‘Experts in Africa’ to restrict your expertise search to researchers working on the African continent…

29. Click ‘Experts in South Africa’ to do a search for researchers based in that country.

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

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

32. 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.
This works just like main institution search/browse interface. Click an institution name to search for researchers working there

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

34. 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.
This works just like browsing by name within an institution, except you are searching the entire COS Expertise network for researchers world-wide.

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

37. Click on Open Browser Window to launch a smaller window which allows to add COS Keywords to your COS Expertise search.

38. …or search for terms in the hierarchy here.
Click the + signs or folder icons to browse the Keyword hierarchy…
This opens the main search page and the Keyword browser window.

39. 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.
Click Keywords to add them to your search form.

40. 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

41. 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.

42. 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.

43. 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.

44. Refine Your Query
A search on CANCER in all fields…

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

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

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

48. 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.
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.

49. 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.

50. 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

51. Is your COS Expertise profile up-to-date?
Is your COS Expertise profile up-to-date?