Community of Science (COS)

Community of Science (COS) - Log-in recommended (see log-on info below)

Find funding: search the world's most comprehensive funding resource, with more than 25,000 records representing nearly 400,000 opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Identify experts and collaborators: search among 500,000 profiles of researchers from 1,600 institutions throughout the world. Discover who's doing what -- current research activity, funding received, publications, patents, new positions and more.

Promote your research: showcase your research and expertise to other researchers and scholars from universities, corporations and nonprofits in more than 170 countries. Use convenient tools to keep your information updated and accessible.

Log-in Information:

Users can log into http://www.cos.com/ with a COS username and password anytime, anywhere. Getting a COS username and password is easy – Just go to http://www.cos.com/ and click the “New User? Register Free” icon near the top left of the screen. Click “Join” and enter the required information, select “Texas State University-San Marcos,” and choose a username and password.

Log-in allows you to access a COS Workbench. From the COS Workbench, you can search COS Funding opportunities as well as created Alerts. Username and password access is necessary when a) a user is off-campus, or b) when a user needs to save a funding record or search.

To Search:

COS Funding Opportunities via the Library's CSA Illumina Platform click here.

or from any off campus computer with log in required visit www.cos.com.

COS Scholar Universe click here.

Training:

For live or on-demand COS Database training, please refer to the COS User Training page.

If you have questions or encounter any difficulties in using this database, please contact Evy Gonzales (eg13@txstate.edu) or Carolyn Pate (cpate@txstate.edu).