"These resources have long been heavily relied upon by research administrators, advanced-level funding seekers, corporate researchers, and publishers," said Jeff Baer, president of the COS division of ProQuest. "While they will continue to be available on their original platforms, we're pleased to offer another option that brings all of these resources together in a format more familiar to library patrons.  Adding this suite of products to the renowned CSA Illumina platform opens access to the full spectrum of research at libraries everywhere." 

COS Scholar Universe is a searchable, editorially-controlled database of more than 1.3 million published scholars in more than 200 disciplines and 9 countries.   With COS Scholar Universe, faculty, and students are directly connected to the community of scholarly research. Exploring this living research community expands awareness and access to cross-disciplinary research perspectives, publications, research methodologies, expertise, and collaborative opportunity. It is an ideal tool for students to expand their networks, by helping them find people working in their fields of interest.  

COS Funding Opportunities is world's most comprehensive research funding resource, with more than 24,000 records representing nearly 400,000 opportunities, worth more than $33 billion.  It was introduced in 1996, and is used by the top 10 US research institutions and most of the top 100, as well as hundreds of universities across the US, Canada, UK, Australia and more.   Funding is available for many purposes, such as research, collaborations, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisitions, and capital or operating expenses.  COS Funding Opportunities will continue to be available on the COS.com platform, where it has tools and features that make it optimal for research administration and advanced-level funding seekers.

PapersInvited is the latest addition to the COS Research Support Services on CSA Illumina.  PapersInvited is a multidisciplinary alerting service for calls for papers for upcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. It is designed for researchers -- primarily graduates and faculty, as well as those in corporations and government agencies. It is especially useful for academics looking to present work to be published in conference proceedings. PapersInvited is also relevant for undergraduates and includes a section specifically on student competitions and awards.

To learn more about the complete COS Research Support Services suite with COS Scholar Universe, COS Funding Opportunities and PapersInvited, visit www.csa.com. 

About ProQuest
ProQuest combines the strengths of two leading and historic information technology firms: ProQuest Information and Learning and CSA.   The company provides seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world's scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social science to science, technology, and medicine.  ProQuest is part of Cambridge Information Group (www.cambridgeinformationgroup.com).

ProQuest's vast content pools are available to researchers through libraries of all types and include the world's largest digital newspaper archive, periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles and spanning more than 500 years, the preeminent dissertation collection, and various other scholarly collections. Users access the information through the ProQuest®  and CSA Illumina Web-based online information systems, Chadwyck-Healey™ electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, eLibrary® and SIRS® educational resources, Ulrich's Serials Analysis System™, COS Scholar Universe, and Serials Solutions resource management tools. Through the expertise of business units Serials Solutions and COS, ProQuest provides technological tools that allow researchers and libraries to better manage and use their information resources.   For more information, visit www.proquest.com and www.csa.com.