Electronic Resources

Community of Science (COS)

Community of Science (COS) is the leading global resource for hard-to-find information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines.

COS, a division of CSA, is a leading provider of information resources to researchers, scholars and other professionals around the globe. COS brings together the world's most prominent scientists, researchers and scholars at more than 1,600 universities, corporations and government agencies worldwide. COS provides services that enable these professionals to find the funding, people and information that are important to their work.

These services include:

• COS Expertise®, the database of detailed, first person profiles of more than 480,000 R&D professionals and scholars;
• COS Funding Opportunities™, the largest compendium of information about available funding;
• COS Abstract Management System™, an online publishing solution for universities and professional societies;
• and customized access to a range of professional reference databases such as MEDLINE® and AGRICOLA.

These services are accessed through the COS COS Workbench™, a customized workspace for the professional needs of individual users.

CSA is a worldwide information company, serving as a guide to researchers to help them be more effective in their work by enabling and expediting discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality information and providing tools to assist in its subsequent dissemination.

For USC users only. Requires USC network connection.