Services Offered Through COS

COS Workbench

COS Workbench is a central location for researchers to access all COS services (ie. COS Expertise and COS Funding Alerts) and allows for off-campus access. To create your COS Workbench, enter your Username and Password at the "Member Login".

If you have forgotten your Username and Password, call 994-6240 or COS will look it up at: http://expertise.cos.com/cgi-bin/recovery/getInfo

If you are new to COS, go to "Join Now".

COS Funding Alerts is a customized e-mail service that alerts individual researchers weekly to new and updated funding opportunities that match their research interests and for which they are eligible. After clicking "Save Search" at the top of the search page, name the search and select whether or not to include this search in your weekly COS Funding Alert email.  You then review and manage your saved alert searches on your COS Workbench.  Up to 20 separate alert searches can be created using keywords, funding type, sponsor type, etc.

You may already be getting alerts from COS. COS creates a broad "introductory search" when MSU sends names to them. Keywords YOU select in your Funding Alerts will significantly narrow the results to fit your research interests.

COS Funding Opportunities
COS Funding Opportunities is the most comprehensive database of funding opportunities that contains up-to-date grants, awards, fellowships, other funding opportunities.

• Grants
• Awards
• Fellowships
• Other funding opportunities
  
  COS Expertise:
  COS Expertise is the database of faculty expertise profiles. Members can use COS Expertise to promote their experience and research, identify peer reviewers and collaborators worldwide, and easily convert their profile into an editable curriculum vitae. View a sample profile. To update your profile, click on "My Profile" on the top bar in your COS Workbench.
  
  Expertise at Montana State University:
  Expertise profiles of researchers and scholars from your institution.