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Training sessions
Training sessions are run to provide support to users of COS services. To arrange a session for yourself, school, centre or discipline group, contact:
or call (+61 8) 6488 3702 / (+61 8) 6488 4708.
COS User Training.
Training sessions and product demonstrations are provided online. These sessions are open to faculty, liaisons and other users of COS services.
The Community of Science (COS) database of international and Australian funding is the leading global resource for information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines.
COS, which was established in 1989 as Community of Science, has several components.
Funding opportunities database
This is a comprehensive database of international and Australian funding opportunities, and includes opportunities in all academic discipline areas.
Many of the international schemes are open to Australian researchers, and most Australian schemes are included.
Any UWA staff member or postgraduate student with an expertise profile on COS can access this database from any internet-connected computer in the world via their workbench. Staff who do not have a profile can access the database from any UWA-networked computer.
Expertise profiles
These profiles are maintained by individual staff, and are required to receive funding alerts.
They provide comprehensive information on past, current and emerging research interests, together with contact details, keywords, publications, grants and patents. Each profile has a unique URL, and can be used to generate a Word-formatted CV.
Any UWA staff member or postgraduate student without a profile is welcome to establish a profile.
Expertise database
For UWA, information held in the profiles provides a searchable database of all UWA expertise.
This expertise forms part of a global database, which can be used to identify research interests of colleagues from within UWA and internationally.
This global database is used by universities and organisations that fund research to identify potential collaborators or research expertise.
Funding alert service
This is a customised email alert service: individual staff are notified of funding opportunities based on the keywords and other criteria specified in the searches they set up.
Staff have full control over their alerts and can revise them at any time to make them broader or more precise.
Results of the searches are delivered in a single email each Monday; the email contains links into the relevant COS database records. These can also be viewed from within one’s own COS web-based workbench.
Individual workbenches
Each profile has its own web-based workbench, which provides full access to the Funding Opportunities and the Expertise databases as well as other services.
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