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These materials are designed to help you understand and use your COS services.
If you have additional questions on how to use these services, please contact your COS representative.

NEW! COS Webinar Recordings

If you can't attend one of the sessions listed above, you can check out any of these product demos and training sessions listed here. Just click the link and click the "Playback" button! We will be adding additional demonstrations in the future.

Brief Product Overviews

COS Funding Opportunities and Funding Alert Overview
New enhancements to COS Funding Opportunities and Funding Alert
COS Expertise and Workbench Overview

Full Product Training Sessions

COS Funding Opportunities and Funding Alert
COS Expertise and Workbench
COS Administrator's Workbench
COS Funding Opportunities on CSA Illumina
Scholar Universe on CSA Illumina
Papers Invited on CSA Illumina

COS Online Training

COS Online Training is conducted live using WebEx, an online meeting and training service that combines video, audio and other features to deliver an effective training experience. All necessary information will be provided when you enroll. Below is the current schedule.

Please note: sessions below that are in red font are specifically geared toward COS liaisons and their immediate colleagues. All other sessions are open to anyone at your university or organization.

Times below are listed in either U.S. Eastern Time (EST or EDT), U.S. Pacific Time (PST or PDT), or Australian Eastern Time (AEST), and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT or GMT Daylight). Please make careful note of the correct time for you. Let us know if you have any questions.


COS Funding Opportunities on CSA Illumina   Thursday November 12 10:00 a.m. EST / GMT -04:00, New York Enroll
 
What It Means To Be a COS Liaison   Wednesday November 18 2:00 p.m. EST / GMT -04:00, New York Enroll
 
COS Funding Opportunities and Alerts   Wednesday December 2 9:00 a.m. EST / GMT -04:00, New York Enroll
PASSWORD: learnrs13
 
COS Papers Invited   Tuesday December 8 2:00 p.m. EST / GMT -04:00, New York Enroll
PASSWORD: learnrs13
 
Promoting COS on your Campus   Thursday December 3 1:00 p.m. EST / GMT -04:00, New York Enroll
No Password Required
 
What It Means To Be a COS Liaison   Wednesday December 9 2:00 p.m. EST / GMT -04:00, New York Enroll
No Password Required
 

COS User Training

RefWorks-COS recently launched COS User Training. These sessions are open to your faculty and other users of COS services--and to you, too, of course.

For the most effective training sessions, we encourage liaisons to gather their faculty to participate in COS User Training as a group. See the link below for more tips on promoting COS User Training.

View the COS User Training schedule

How to Promote End User Training


Instructional Materials

Tutorials powerpoint All tutorials are in PowerPoint format
  • Using Your COS Expertise Profile
  • Using COS Funding Opportunities
  • Using COS Administrators Workbench
  • Using COS Funding Alert Tutorial
  • Using COS Expertise
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    Guides powerpoint All Guides are in Microsoft Word format
  • How to Promote the COS on Campus
  • Reasons to Use COS
  • Suggested Funding Opps Demo Outline
  • Creating Funding Links
  • Suggested Expertise demo outline
  • Top 10 Dos and Don'ts of COS Funding Opps
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    Promotional Materials

    Microsoft Word = Microsoft Word format (editable)

    Posters General 1 Microsoft Word Training 1 Microsoft Word
      General 2 Microsoft Word Training 2 Microsoft Word
      General 3 Microsoft Word Training 3 Microsoft Word

    Print Ads General 1 Microsoft Word Training 1 Microsoft Word
      General 2 Microsoft Word Training 2 Microsoft Word
      General 3 Microsoft Word Training 3 Microsoft Word

    Handouts COS Funding Opportunties and Funding Alert Microsoft Word
      COS Expertise & Funding Opportunities Microsoft Word
      COS Funding Opportunities Microsoft Word



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