Kylie Dixon, PHC RIS
 There are a number of internet-based services available for researchers, policy makers and consumers designed to provide easy access to the information you need. Here are some that our researches find useful with their day-to-day research.
Community of Science (COS)
The Community of Science (COS) website offers a large range of web services for researchers around the world.
‘COS Expertise' allows you to search over 480,000 first-person profiles of researchers from over 1,600 institutions worldwide. The advanced search feature allows you to search by keywords, geography, qualifications, institution and much more.
‘COS Funding' allows you to search an up-to-date database containing grants, fellowships, awards and much more from around the world. This database currently comprises of more than 24,000 records worth over $33 billion.
Web: www.cos.com
ISI web of knowledge
Search content from over 55,300,000 articles, 22,000 journals, 192,000 conference proceedings and 5,500 websites, accessing invaluable information quickly and effectively, using powerful search capabilities such as cited reference searching.
Registered users are able to use the ‘My Cited Articles List' to have a personalised email alert sent each time an article on their list is cited in a new article as well as set up ‘Search History Alerts' which will automatically search the latest update to the database, and then send the results to you by email.
Web: isiwebofknowledge.com/librarian_wokhome
CareSearch
This website contains a collection of information pages on palliative care topics, which include; databases of various literature resources, information on grants, research activities and projects, education and training opportunities.
Resulting from a project funded by the Australian Government in 2001 to improve the evidence available to palliative care clinical practitioners, researchers and educators nationally this website now averages over 20,000 visitors a month.
Most of the CareSearch website is public access, available for all visitors.
Web: www.caresearch.com.au
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