©2006, CSA Creating and Managing Your COS Expertise Profile Managing Your CV and Promoting Your Work ® Resources for Research, Worldwide

©2006, CSA Contents: Creating your COS Expertise profile Updating your COS Expertise profile Managing your CV Using your COS Workbench

©2006, CSA Contents: Creating your COS Expertise profile - benefits of creating a profile - a sample profile - how to create your profile and COS Workbench Updating your COS Expertise profile Managing your CV Using your COS Workbench

©2006, CSA Benefits of participating in COS Expertise Add your profile at no cost for: Recognition – promote your work locally, nationally and globally to 1000 academic, media, government and corporate organizations. An instant home page – your profile has a unique URL that you can use as a home page. Free research services – registering gives you a COS Workbench and access to free database services. Easy CV management – keep your profile up-to-date, and use it to create versions of your CV instantly.

©2006, CSA A sample profile To be published, profiles must contain… Contact information An indication of your discipline or expertise. Other information is optional: Photo Web page URL Past positions Expertise statement...

©2006, CSA … Future research Industrial relevance Languages Society memberships Patents ( which link to full records where possible )…

©2006, CSA … Funding received Publications ( which link to MEDLINE ® abstracts where applicable )

©2006, CSA Creating your COS Expertise profile and COS Workbench If you have not received an with your username and password, create your own profile: Go to Enter required information Click “Continue”

©2006, CSA Then… Provide your contact information Click “Continue”

©2006, CSA Finally… Enter your interests Choose a username and password Review the privacy policy Complete your registration

©2006, CSA You then have the choice of starting to fill out a full profile, or starting to use your Workbench. Let’s add details to the profile now. This works just like updating your profile.

©2006, CSA Click any ‘Edit’ button to start adding to sections of your profile.

©2006, CSA Type or copy and paste information about your work into the Expertise section, then click ‘Update’. You may select another section of your profile to update other information, such as Publications.

©2006, CSA Type or paste in publication information, then click ‘Add’. For non-journal articles, simply leave the irrelevant fields blank.

©2006, CSA Add a MEDLINE ® Publication If you have publications in MEDLINE ®, you can search for and upload these automatically by clicking “Add a MEDLINE ® Publication” … which opens a citation search window pre-populated with your name. Pick date(s), do the search, and choose citations to add to your profile.

©2006, CSA Contents: Creating your COS Expertise profile Updating your COS Expertise profile Managing your CV Using your COS Workbench

©2006, CSA Updating your COS Expertise profile and entering your COS Workbench If you already have a profile and Workbench, enter your username and password* at and click ‘Log in’. *either you received your username and password in an or you chose them when adding your profile Tip: If you are working from your desk, select the ‘Save My Login’ box so that, in the future, you can simply click ‘Log in’ without needing to enter your username and password each time. Tip: If you have forgotten your username and password, follow the ‘Forgot Your Password?’ link to ask the COS Help Desk to send them to you.

©2006, CSA A COS Workbench This takes you to your COS Workbench homepage. Click any profile section in the left column to start editing your Expertise profile.

©2006, CSA Privacy and Data Protection You will be prompted to give COS permission to hold and publish your profile in COS Expertise. Click ‘Confirm’ to continue, or ‘Decline’ to ask COS to delete your profile.

©2006, CSA Edit your profile Click any profile section to start adding to sections of your profile. Click on “View Full Profile” to see your whole profile at once and determine which fields may need to be updated.

©2006, CSA Tip: If your profile is complete and up-to-date, you may simply click on “Click to Verify,” which will indicate to those searching that the profile has been reviewed and is still current.

©2006, CSA Contents: Creating your COS Expertise profile Updating your COS Expertise profile Managing your CV -use & customize your MyProfile homepage -produce your curriculum vitae (résumé) Using your COS Workbench

©2006, CSA Use your profile’s unique MyProfile URL Every profile has a unique URL that allows you to share your profile with anyone, regardless of their COS membership status. It is formed as follows: Your MyProfile URL can be found both on your COS Workbench… Your MyProfile URL can be found both on your COS Workbench…as well as at the bottom of your profile.

©2006, CSA For example, make it part of your signature.

©2006, CSA Customize Your MyProfile When you direct people to view your MyProfile online, you can personalize what they see! This will not affect your profile when it is viewed through the COS Expertise search interface.

©2006, CSA Simply click on the links in the left column to hide fields, re-order your profile, or customize the color scheme. For example, you can hide all your contact information except your address if that is your preferred method of communication.

©2006, CSA Produce your CV Turn your COS Expertise profile into a curriculum vitae, or résumé.

©2006, CSA Choose which sections to include by selecting the boxes. Then determine their layout order. Then click the ‘Submit layout’ button.

©2006, CSA Select the individual elements – e.g., publications – that you wish to be included. Then click the ‘Submit form for processing’ button at the bottom of the page.

©2006, CSA This opens your word processing application with a copy of your CV open. ( In some browsers, you will have to save it to disk and then open it. ) You can now edit and save it as you would any document. Tip: Maintain your publications, grants received and other information in your profile. Create versions of your CV as needed, instead of trying to keep several versions of your CV on your hard drive up-to-date.

©2006, CSA Contents: Creating your COS Expertise profile Updating your COS Expertise profile Managing your CV Using your COS Workbench -track the views on your profile -service access anytime or anyplace -change your username/password

©2006, CSA Track Your Profile You can see how much others are viewing your profile by checking your COS Workbench This profile was viewed 289 times in October 2004… …and over 8600 times within the past year!

©2006, CSA Access Services from Anywhere Use your Workbench to access expertise, funding and other COS services on or off campus. Simply click on the appropriate tab.

©2006, CSA Change your username and password

©2006, CSA Key in your new username and old and then new password, then click ‘Update Now’. Tips: Your username must be unique Your username forms part of the unique URL of your profile: Both username and password must be 4-15 characters long. They are not case sensitive. Permitted characters are listed on the ‘Change User ID’ Web page.

©2006, CSA Tip: When you are in your Workbench, the top menu will always be available while browsing COS Web pages. The ‘Workbench Home’ link will take you back to your Workbench home page.

©2006, CSA With your COS Expertise profile and COS Workbench, you can… Be identified as a potential collaborator by the academic, media, government, sponsor and corporate organizations that use COS Expertise. Use the unique URL of your profile as a home page ( Create your CV instantly from your profile. Use COS services from any Internet connection.

©2006, CSA Your COS Expertise Profile Please update your profile regularly!