ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 18, 2007 - ProQuest has added PapersInvited to complete the suite of COS™ Research Support Services now available on the CSA Illumina™ platform. Introduced in 2006, COS Research Support Services combines the COS Scholar Universe™, COS Funding Opportunities®, and now PapersInvited services on the CSA Illumina platform, supporting academic and scientific research across all disciplines. COS Research Support Services puts researchers in touch with money, scholars and experts, and calls for papers and other publishing opportunities. CSA Illumina is a premier research platform which provides access to more than 100 full-text and bibliographic databases in the arts and humanities; natural sciences, social sciences, and technology and engineering. CSA Illumina’s popularity with research libraries, its simple but powerful searching and its interdisciplinary coverage make it an ideal access-point for COS Research Support Services.

"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 creates specialized information resources and technologies that propel successful research, discovery, and lifelong learning. A global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the expertise of such respected brands as Chadwyck-Healey™, UMI®, SIRS®, and eLibrary®. With Serials Solutions®, Ulrich's™, RefWorks®, COS™, Dialog® and now Bowker® part of the ProQuest brand family, the company supports the breadth of the information community with innovative discovery solutions that power the business of books and the best in research experience.

More than a content provider or aggregator, ProQuest is an information partner, creating indispensable research solutions that connect people and information. Through innovative, user-centered discovery technology, ProQuest offers billions of pages of global content that includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant resources for researchers of any age and sophistication—including content not likely to be digitized by others. Inspired by its customers and their end users, ProQuest is working toward a future that blends information accessibility with community to further enhance learning and encourage lifelong enrichment.

For more information, visit www.proquest.com or the ProQuest parent company website, www.cig.com.