Workshops: Finding Funding for Faculty/Finding Funding for Graduate Students

University Libraries and the Sponsored Programs Office (SPO) are combining forces to assist faculty and graduate students in finding funding sources for their research and creative activity agendas.  SPO’s Augusta Wray will give a tutorial on COS Pivot, the largest funding opportunity and researcher expertise database, as well as other resources SPO has to offer.  You will also learn about Web of
Science, a powerful database helpful in crafting necessary literature reviews for grant proposals. There are two sessions being offered, one for faculty and one for graduate students. Sign up for your session today to reserve a spot!

Questions about these sessions can be directed to Augusta Wray in the Sponsored Programs Office, 5-1600.

Finding Funding for Faculty

Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Time: 10:00am - 11:30am

Location: BL 225

URL: http://bsu.libcal.com/event.php?id=229718


Finding Funding for Graduate Students

Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Time: 3:00p – 4:30p

Location: BL 225

URL: http://bsu.libcal.com/event.php?id=229738

COS Funding Opportunities conversion to COS Pivot to be completed as of June 30, 2012

COS Funding Opportunities, Expertise, and Scholar Universe became COS Pivot in August 2011.  Ref-Works will be completing the conversion and phasing out the legacy system. COS Funding Opportunities currently available at www.cos.com (or fundingopps.cos.com) will no longer be available after June 30, 2012. The same great funding information is available in Pivot, which you currently have access to. Anyone who logs in to cos.com after the 30th will automatically be redirected to Pivot.

To avoid any problems accessing the system, please update any bookmarks and log into Pivot at the new website: pivot.cos.com. Ref-Works will be posting warning notices to users throughout the legacy COS.com platform within the next few days.

COS Pivot is the most comprehensive database of funding opportunities, containing up-to-date grants, awards, fellowships, and other funding opportunities covering all disciplines, as well as identifing researcher expertise within or outside Ball State.

If you have any questions or concerns about using Pivot at Ball State, please feel free to contact Augusta Wray in the Sponsored Programs Office.

COS Pivot

For years, COS has delivered tools focused on helping researchers find funding opportunities as well as potential collaborators. COS is now taking the next giant step with Pivot.

Pivot provides Research Administrators, Research Development Professionals, and their institutions the edge to bring together the right research opportunities, funding, and people—quickly and easily. It provides global and local connections that strengthen research by exploring new avenues for funding and collaboration—for faculty, staff researchers, and graduate students.

Pivot is a powerful tool that:

• Provides access to the most comprehensive source of funding opportunities globally
• Identifies researcher expertise from within or outside of your organization
• Fosters collaboration by cultivating essential partnerships and alliances
• Allows the focus to be on winning the necessary awards and grants by removing the more tedious aspects of finding and connecting funding
• Enhances communication, monitoring, and tracking amongst individual faculty, teams, or researchers and the Research Development office
• Builds a strong network of connections for faculty members to rely on throughout their careers

Check it out: http://pivot.cos.com
Please note if you are not already signed up for a free COS account or accessing this link from a computer on the Ball State network, you will not be able to get into the system. If you need more information, please contact Augusta Wray in the Sponsored Programs Office.

Pivot's YouTube Channel

In August, we posted about the new and exciting COS Pivot. Since then, Ref-Works (Pivot's parent company) has been hard at work implementing changes and updates. One of the newest additions is that of a YouTube channel!

You may be asking yourself why this is so exciting. Would you like to know how to quickly do a simple funding search in Pivot?



Check out this and other tutorials for yourself at ProQuestPivot's YouTube Channel!

Related
Introducing: COS Pivot
COS Pivot website