Community of Science Funding Opportunities and Funding Alerts

W HAT I S COS F UNDING O PPORTUNITIES ? 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.

W HAT 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.

A CCESSING COS Method 1 – Without a Password Access is granted from any on-campus computer without a username or password at

A CCESSING 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)

S ETTING UP A U SERNAME AND P ASSWORD Go to andhttp:// click the “New User? Register Free” icon near the top left of the screen.

S ETTING UP A U SERNAME AND P ASSWORD Click “Join”

S ETTING UP A U SERNAME AND P ASSWORD 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

S ETTING UP A U SERNAME AND P ASSWORD Click “Create Account”

S EARCHING COS F UNDING O PPORTUNITIES Method 1 - Free-Text Simple Search ( Enter Keywords

S EARCHING COS F UNDING O PPORTUNITIES Results shown using “OR” logic

S EARCHING COS F UNDING O PPORTUNITIES Results shown using “OR” logic Shows previous searches from current session

S EARCHING COS F UNDING O PPORTUNITIES Results shown using “OR” logic Allows for a downloaded list of selected records within the search

S EARCHING COS F UNDING O PPORTUNITIES Method 2 - Detailed Advanced Search

S EARCHING COS F UNDING O PPORTUNITIES Advanced Search

S EARCHING COS F UNDING O PPORTUNITIES Advanced Search Allows for keyword search by Sponsor, Abstract or Title Results sortable by relevancy, amount, deadline and more

COS F UNDING A LERT 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 Saves up to 40 funding searches as alert searches Specify for which searches to receive updates Review an archive of weekly alert results Receive alerts when any tracked records are updated--up to 200 Your weekly results include the Title, Sponsor, Deadline, Amount

G UIDED S EARCH W IZARD 5 Step Guided Search

G UIDED S EARCH W IZARD 5 step process 1- Who are you?

2- Citizenship/Residency G UIDED S EARCH W IZARD

3- Type of Funding G UIDED S EARCH W IZARD Notice the number of opportunities changing as you move through each step

4- Sponsor type G UIDED S EARCH W IZARD

5- Field of Interest (Keyword) G UIDED S EARCH W IZARD

Results (Look like all other searches) G UIDED S EARCH W IZARD

Q UESTIONS ? More information about COS Funding Opportunities is available at