COS Funding Opportunities provides current information on grants offered by a wide variety of funding sources from all over the world, including federal and regional governments, foundations, professional societies, associations, and corporations. The database’s name is misleading. Although the database’s strength is in the sciences, it does cover the humanities and social sciences as well. This database serves faculty, staff, and doctoral student researchers.
The UMass Boston Office of Research and Sponsored Programs pays for the university’s subscription to COS Funding Opportunities.
COS Expertise is a database of researchers at leading universities and other institutions involved in research. There are 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 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. Profiles include: qualifications, publications, awards, funding received, COS keywords and more.
COS Workbench allows users to set up a profile, add a CV and receive funding alerts. COS Funding Alert is a personalized electronic notification service of funding information. COS Funding Alert subscribers receive a weekly e-mail with a customized list of funding opportunities based on previously specified criteria. This service is free through the UMass Boston subscription.
Search funded research through COS Workbench. Funded Research is a group of 5 databases that allow you to research and track information on funding and award histories at leading research facilities around the world. Funded Research can be used to learn what types of research projects received funding in the past as well as those currently being funded. It also allows you to track information pertaining to the specific people and institutions receiving money. Such information can be useful in determining current trends or predicting future trends in research funding. The databases cover projects funded by 5 major government agencies:
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
- Medical Research Council, UK (MRC)
Additional Information:
COS offers a number of search options, including a simple search and an advanced search. The main search or advanced search includes searching by sponsor, location and funding type.
There are separate search pages to view an alphabetical list of sponsors and a map to search by geography. In addition, the search wizard guides the user through the many search options. Each record contains a title, abstract, amount, sponsor, contact information, deadline, eligibility requirements and COS keyword.
The COS keywords are from a standardized list and can be used for searching. For help with the search options, view Help Using the COS Funding Opportunities.
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