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About COS Expertise

COS Expertise is the premier database of first-person profiles of researchers at leading universities and other institutions involved in basic or applied research.

Comprehensive Information

COS Expertise contains nearly 480,000 profiles submitted by researchers, scholars and other experts from more than 1,300 universities, government agencies, and other R&D organizations from around the world.

Each profile submitted to be added or updated is carefully reviewed by a skilled team of editors to insure the relevance, consistency and accuracy of the data, and to optimize the record for searching.

COS Expertise profiles include:

• Contact information and position
• Qualifications and expertise
• Publications, patents and awards
• COS Keywords (a standardized list, applied consistently through all profiles)
• Much more

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Flexible, Intuitive Searching

COS Expertise is supported by a powerful relational database platform that supports the performance of contributing researchers.

• Search by free-text, COS Keyword, geography, expert's name, institution and more
• Track queries
• Compare records

Research Institutions Use COS Expertise to:

• Keep track of internal research capabilities
• Publicize research capabilities externally
• Identify peer reviewers for articles and proposals
• Discover prospective collaborators for ongoing research projects
• Systematically disseminate relevant grant information to individual faculty
• Assist with multidisciplinary funding projects

Corporations and R&D organizations use COS Expertise to:

• Identify prospective collaborators
• Leverage existing R&D efforts
• Keep up-to-date with basic science and academic research
• Communicate directly with the researchers who possess the expertise they need