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COS Databases & Funding Alerts

• Search the Funding Opportunities Database
• Search Funding Opportunities from Australia Based
• Sponsors
• Search the Expertise Database
• Search Murdoch Expertise
• Search Western Australian Expertise
• Log into Your Profile
• Establish a Profile
• Instructions/Guidelines

Funding Opportunities Database
This is a comprehensive database of international and Australian funding opportunities, and includes opportunities in all academic discipline areas. Many of the international schemes are open to Australian researchers, and most Australian schemes are included. Any Murdoch University staff member or postgraduate student with an expertise profile on COS can access this database from any internet connected computer in the world via their workbench. Staff who do not have a profile can access the database from any Murdoch University networked computer. Alternatively they may create a profile (see below).

Expertise Profiles
These profiles are maintained by individual staff, and are required to receive funding alerts. They provide comprehensive information on past, current and emerging research interests, together with contact details, keywords, publications, grants and patents. Each profile has a unique URL, and can be used to generate a Word formatted CV. Any Murdoch University staff member or postgraduate student without a profile is welcome to establish one.

Expertise Database
For Murdoch University, information held in the profiles provides a searchable database of all Murdoch University expertise. This expertise forms part of a global database, which can be used to identify research interests of colleagues from within Murdoch University and internationally. This global database is used by universities, and organisations that fund research, to identify potential collaborators or research expertise.

Funding Alert Service
This is a customised email alert service: Individual staff are notified of funding opportunities based on the keywords and other criteria specified in the searches they set up. Staff have full control over their alerts and can revise them at any time to make them broader or more precise. Results of the searches are delivered in a single email each Monday: the email contains links into the relevant COS database records. These can also be viewed from within one's own COS web-based workbench.

Individual Workbenches
Each profile has its own web-based workbench, which provides full access to the Funding Opportunities and the Expertise databases as well as other services. (If you do not have a profile these services can only be accessed via a Murdoch University networked computer.) The workbench provides full access to your saved searches and funding alerts, and can be customised.

Instructions
The following PowerPoint tutorials can be downloaded:

Using COS Funding Opportunities ( Powerpoint Document)
Using COS Expertise ( Powerpoint Document)
Creating a COS Expertise Profile ( Powerpoint Document)
See also: Updating Your COS Profile ( Word Doc)
Using COS Funding Alerts™ ( Powerpoint Document)
Using COS Workbench™ ( Powerpoint Document)
See also: Customising Your COS Workbench ( Word Doc)

Note: These documents can only be downloaded if you are accessing the Internet from a Murdoch networked computer.

The Grants Office welcomes feedback and will pass comments onto COS, who are keen to optimise their services. Feedback and queries can be emailed to research@murdoch.edu.au.