COS Homepage
(previously known as Community of Science)

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Resesarch jointly fund a subscription to COS for use by the IU community. COS provides a comprehensive and up-to-date database of grants, fellowships, awards, and other funding opportunities from public, private, domestic, and international sources.

• REGISTER to use COS. Create a profile to take full advantage of the COS Workbench.
• USE your COS Workbench. An easy-to-use Web workspace with many features to manage saved funding searches and track funding records.
• SEARCH COS Funding Opportunities. A comprehensive source of information on funding announcements and opportunities.(See below for more on using COS to find funding)
• RECEIVE COS Funding Alerts. COS Funding Alert subscribers receive a weekly e-mail notification containing a customized list of funding opportunities based on specified criteria provided by the individual COS member.
• EXPLORE COS Expertise.This extensive database contains more than 480,000 profiles of researchers from more than 1,600 institutions worldwide.

More on Finding Funding through COS

Simple and Advanced searches can be used in COS to locate grant sources that match criteria such as key words, level of expertise, citizenship, research location, or type of funding. It is important to define search terms carefully to avoid too many results. It may be necessary to refine search queries.

To search COS Funding Opportunities, enter keywords in the box for a Simple Search that searches all fields. Boolean Operators AND, OR, and NOT can be used within the Simple Search field. You must be a registered COS user to save searches to your COS Workbench.

Examples of Funding Searches

• Simple Search for Stimulus or American Recovery and Reinvestment (ARRA) funding ("ARRA" entered into Search box)

• Simple Search for STEM funding opportunities ("science, technology, engineering, and mathematics" entered into Search box)


Navigating COS Search results

• See Search Results Help page at the COS site.
• Column headers can be clicked to sort by amount, sponsor, deadline, etc.
• Faceted Results (search results organized by category) on left can be used to refine your query by clicking on the links.
• Unspecified deadlines are past programs that do not have current application deadlines.