Using keyword searches from the COS Web page, users can produce a list of candidates who best match specific funding opportunities. Edwin Van Dusen, vice president of marketing and operations for COS, said a new service coming this summer would allow researchers to run a search to match their individual entry with a list of funding opportunities. The universities that benefit most from the network are those with large numbers of faculty participating, Van Dusen said. Expertise records at universities that joined COS at its conception usually include 60 to 80 percent of the faculty members, he said. Researchers can post their own entries on the Web by filling out the form found on the COS Web page.
Researchers can update their entries by accessing the page through their own password.