Access to Profiles Profiles may be viewed in three different ways. By searching the COS Expertise database search form and checking Include All Profiles in My Search . The Community of Science Expertise database may be searched only by individuals at member institutions. Keeping Your Record Private Basic and Full profiles are published on the World Wide Web unless the researcher requests otherwise. If you do not wish your research profile to be searchable on the Web, please contact the COS help desk stating that you want your record to remain unpublished.
All Incomplete profiles are unpublished.
If your profile was Full or published, any changes made to your profile are effective immediately. If your profile was Basic or Incomplete , changes are effective the next business day. However, changes won't be retrievable by searching COS Expertise until the Monday after your changes are made. The COS Expertise search function is an index which is updated every weekend. So, if your profile is Incomplete on Tuesday and you update it with enough information to be considered Basic or Full on Wednesday, your profile won't appear in searches of the database until Monday, after the index is updated.