1. Using COS Expertise The Global Researcher Network ® http://expertise.cos.com

2. COS Expertise With profiles of half a million scientists and scholars, COS Expertise is the world’s largest research collaboration network. Users include nearly 1000 academic, corporate, sponsor, government and media organizations, who search COS Expertise to find the academic expertise they need. Individual academics can participate in COS Expertise 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 1000 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 Alert TM. 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. 1. Name of Researcher 2. Present Position 3. Date of Appointment 4. Institution 5. School 6. Department 7. Other Current Positions 8. Address 9. Phone 10. Fax 11. E-mail 12. Personal Home Page link 13. Photograph 14. Honors and Awards Information in an Expertise profile 15. Qualifications 16. Professional Memberships 17. Previous Positions 18. Research and Expertise 19. Other Expertise 20. Languages 21. Patents 22. Research Funding 23. Publications 24. COS Keywords 25. Additional Keywords 26. Industrial Relevance 27. Future Research

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

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

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

13. 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 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.

14. 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

15. The five search options http://expertise.cos.com Search All option for searching the entire database

16. 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.

17. Click a name to see a full profile.

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

19. To search for experts at a COS Member institution, choose ‘Search’ and click the institution name.

20. This finds any researchers at Carnegie Mellon who use the exact phrase ‘reflection fluorescence’ in their expertise statements.

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

23. Search on a name of a researcher at this University, or click a letter to list all alphabetically by surname. Tip: All search forms have a ‘Number of results to view’ picklist. Increase the number to increase the number of results that show per page.

24. This lists alphabetically all of the researchers at this University whose surnames start with the letter ‘R’.

25. Search Geographically option for searching in particular countries or regions.

26. The Geographic interface for the funding and expertise databases. Choose a country from the picklist or click the map to zoom in.

27. 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.

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

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

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

31. 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.

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

33. 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.

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

37. 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.

38. 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.

39. 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

40. Search Methods – and/or/not If you connect your search terms or fields with: AND, then the search will only find the opportunities that contain all of the parameters you set; e.g., if you type WIND AND ENERGY the search will find profiles that contain the word WIND and the word ENERGY somewhere within the field(s) you are searching. OR – e.g., ENVIRONMENT OR ECOSYSTEM will find all records that contain the word ENVIRONMENT or the word ECOSYSTEM, or both words. NOT – e.g., CHINESE NOT HAMSTERS will find records that contain the word CHINESE but exclude those that contain the word HAMSTERS even if the word CHINESE also appears.

41. Search Language – other tricks Wild Card * – find variations on a word. E.g., ENVIROMENT* finds profiles with words such as ENVIRONMENTAL and ENVIRONMENTS. Exact Phrase ‘’ – find a precise phrase. E.g., ‘WIND ENERGY’ in quotation marks finds profiles where these two words appear together. 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 three words, such as those with the phrase WIND TURBINE ENERGY. 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 http://expertise.cos.com/quickguide.shtml for full information about searching. This help documentation is available via the ‘instructions’ link from every COS Expertise page.

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

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

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

45. 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.

46. 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.

47. 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.

48. 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.

49. Is your COS Expertise profile up-to-date? COS Expertise http://expertise.cos.com