Transcript CSA Discovery Services!!

CSA Discovery Services!!
Community of Scholars
PapersInvited
COS Funding Opportunities
Community of Scholars!
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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 content
Broadens research perspective across discipline,
geography
Who’s doing what where?
Community of Scholars Updating
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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?
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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
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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
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Conferences
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8,000-12,000 per year
Updated 3 times/month, with
minimum of 200 conferences each
update
Special Issues of Journals
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1,500-2,000 per year
Multidisciplinary Coverage
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Library Science &
Journalism
Psychology
Literature &
Languages
Management
Biotechnology
Math & Astronomy
Engineering &
Technology
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Philosophy, Religion &
Mythology
Arts, Architecture, Music
& Sports
Geography & History
Social Sciences
Natural Sciences
Biomedical Sciences
Computers & Info
Technology
PapersInvited Subject Coverage
Benefits to Researchers
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Publishing opportunities
Promote awareness within & across
disciplines
Personalization features assist planning
& scheduling
Strengths
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Multidisciplinary
Large
Includes special issues as well
as conferences – unique combo
Timely; updated frequently
Easy-to-search database
Strengths (contd.)
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Lots of details (incl. session tracks, poster
sessions)
Links to organizer and / or publisher
 web site
 email address
Lots of personalization
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My Calendar, Favorites, Planner
Test drive via Demo Search or Free Trial
Strengths (contd.)
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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
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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
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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
Themes
Thank you!!
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For trials and more information, please
contact:
Laura Karves
Email: [email protected]