csa discovery services!! community of scholars papersinvited cos funding opportunities
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CSA Discovery Services!!
Community of ScholarsPapersInvited
COS Funding Opportunities
Community of Scholars!
Searchable database of active international Academic Faculty and Researchers
1,000,000+ unique Scholar and organization profiles
Linked to relevant document collections
Across all academic subject areas
Why Community of Scholars?
Access the Community behind the content -- people, not just documents, are relevant sources of information: As collaborators As pathways to high quality contentBroadens research perspective across
discipline, geographyWho’s doing what where?
Community of Scholars Updating
Monthly New documents integrated Email and URL validation Scholar Feedback submissions included
Semi-Annually Name reviewed Affiliation reviewed Interests reviewed Title reviewed
What is PapersInvited?
An alerting service for upcoming conferences and special issues
For researchers/scholars: graduates and faculty in academia researchers in corporations and
government departments undergraduates
What does it do?
Provides an easy way for researchers to discover:
Upcoming conferences, worldwide, in their own or other fields, thereby
Providing opportunity to submit their own research papers for presentation and ultimate publication, and/or
Register and attend a particular conference
PapersInvited = Calls for Papers
Conferences 8,000-12,000 per year Updated 3 times/month, with
minimum of 200 conferences each update
Special Issues of Journals 1,500-2,000 per year
Multidisciplinary Coverage
Library Science & Journalism
Psychology Literature &
Languages Management Biotechnology Math & Astronomy Engineering &
Technology
Philosophy, Religion & Mythology
Arts, Architecture, Music & Sports
Geography & History Social Sciences Natural Sciences Biomedical Sciences Computers & Info
Technology
PapersInvited Subject Coverage
Benefits to Researchers Publishing opportunities Promote awareness within &
across disciplines Personalization features assist
planning & scheduling
Strengths
Multidisciplinary Large Includes special issues as
well as conferences – unique combo
Timely; updated frequently Easy-to-search database
Strengths (contd.)
Lots of details (incl. session tracks, poster sessions)
Links to organizer and / or publisher web site email address
Lots of personalization My Calendar, Favorites, Planner
Test drive via Demo Search or Free Trial
Strengths (contd.)
Designed by graduate students Refined by users since 2001 Relationships established with organizers
& publishers Company stability Soon – dovetailing with other data
resources needed by researchers: literature searching (CSA Illumina,
Ulrich’s) people searching (Scholars) funding opportunities searching
COS Funding Opportunities
Data on research grants, fellowships, prizes, travel awards
All disciplines Global Sponsors:
Public: local, state, national Private Foundations & societies
> 400 K opportunities
COS Funding Opportunities
Updated daily New records Updated info Expired records purged
Indexed: controlled vocabulary for over 3,000 subject categories
Researched, verified, edited, indexed & compiled by COS
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