Community of ScienceFunding Opportunities

and Funding Alerts

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

Click “Join”

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

SETTING UP A USERNAME AND PASSWORD

Click “Create Account”

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

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

Method 2 - Detailed Advanced Search

SEARCHING COS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES Advanced 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

GUIDED SEARCH WIZARD

5 Step Guided Search

GUIDED SEARCH WIZARD 5 step process

1- Who are you?

2- Citizenship/Residency

GUIDED SEARCH WIZARD

3- Type of Funding

GUIDED SEARCH WIZARD

Notice the number of opportunities

changing as you move through each

step

4- Sponsor type

GUIDED SEARCH WIZARD

5- Field of Interest (Keyword)

GUIDED SEARCH WIZARD

Results (Look like all other searches)

GUIDED SEARCH WIZARD

QUESTIONS?More information about COS Funding

Opportunities is available at http://fundingopps.cos.com