Modern Faculty Expert Directories that Generate Results
Kosmos Faculty Expert Directories help you attract media, industry partners, collaborators and recruit graduate students. Our Expert Systems solution exclusively built for American and Canadian universities and colleges.
Universities and colleges redefining faculty promotion
media and pr
Earned media
- Journalists find your faculty 24/7
- Press without a PR agency or pushy emails
- Relevant expertise driven inquiries lead to more interviews
- Develop long term relations with new journalists
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Work at the speed of media
- Designed for and by journalists
- Be found by deadline
- Don’t miss out on breaking news opportunities
- Empower staff to support public relations
marketing and STRATEGY
Build your brand
- Increase your marketing and PR metrics with higher media citation rates
- Build brand recognition beyond your traditional news area
- Support faculty as thought leaders
- Analytics to know what journalists are looking for
CROSS FACULTY COOPERATION
Discover internal expertise
- Break down department silos
- Increase cooperation across faculty and staff
- Support grant applications
- Remote work helper
Case Studies: Expert Systems
See how Kosmos experts directory customers are harnessing faculty talent to promote their institution with our expert systems solution
University of Guelph
Public relations, media relations, industry partners, and journalists love the simplicity of our faculty expert directories and expert systems.
Our faculty expertise management and expert systems software is built exclusively for the needs of universities and colleges with features like cross-appointed faculty.
Easy to set up, build from the ground up based on feedback, and an eye for real-world maintenance.
No IT is required. Directories are cloud-hosted, scale seamlessly, and work across all devices and browsers.
Key Benefits of Expertise Finder Expert Directories
Build your brand
Improve your marketing and PR metrics by increasing your institution’s visibility, citation rate, brand recognition, and marketing ROI.
Increase revenue
Be found more often by private sector partners and students looking for colleges to apply to.
Media attention
Journalists want a tool to quickly identify potential experts. It needs to be available 24/7. The universities and colleges that provide it are preferred sources. The result is greater earned media.
Partnerships and collaborations
Expertise focused search leads to being found more often by industry partners, researchers and potential graduate students.
Empower staff
Our directories quickly become a go to resource for faculty and staff. Staff can accurately direct inquiries (fewer emails to busy faculty), organize events and more.
Easy setup, budget friendly
Launch your new faculty experts directory in two weeks. Flat monthly rate. No contract. No IT required. We work with your staff to create the initial profiles (at no extra charge) and your expert systems.
What Sets Us Apart
Learn what our users and customers tell us not to change.
Stop investing in internal tools or expensive third party tools that in the end few use.
Don't change the search bar!
‘Google like’ search is the #1 reason users come back again and again to the directories we power.
Whether they’re working at a university or college or looking for an expert from a higher education institution, our users tell us not to touch the instant relevant results and clean look.
Our search engine uses Solr, which is built on the open-source Apache Lucene. Solr powers the search and navigation features of many of the world’s largest internet sites.
Easy to manage, intuitive to use Expert Systems
Edit, add, hide and delete profiles in real time from any device. Our profile management software doesn’t require special training to use, but a dedicated account manager is always there to help if necessary.
We never nickel and dime you based on the number of profiles, add as many as you like. Our clients tell us they finally have a suitable tool to grow their directories year after year.
All Features
An expert system built from the ground up for the specific needs of universities and colleges
Advanced 'Google like' search
Users enjoy instant and relevant search results with features like autocomplete/autosuggest, acronym detection and spelling suggestions.
Robust profile manager
With the profile manager, you can create unlimited profiles and publish profile pages to your directory instantly. You can add, edit, delete or hide (example: health leave or sabbatical) profile pages and create private notes.
SEO friendly
Profile pages are SEO optimized. This increases organic traffic from Google, Bing and other search engines, improves visibility score and increases rankings (page, keyword, domain).
Unlimited scaling included
Our cloud hosted directories allow you to have unlimited searches and profiles (we never charge extra). 99.99% uptime.
Profile visibility/privacy controls
You can hide any profile by selecting the hide option on the profile page in the profile manager. Hidden profiles cannot be searched or viewed on your directory.
Filters and sorting
There are many ways to discover an expert. Search by area of expertise, department, faculty, institute, campus or name of faculty member. Our tool even supports cross-appointed faculty.
Data and security
All communication with our service is encrypted (HTTPS). Directories do not store personal information like social security numbers or personal addresses.
Earned media and PR tool
With our online directory, you can create better stories by finding faculty for news, alumni and fundraising articles. It makes it easy to be found by journalists for an interview and by other researchers for collaboration and citation.
White label branding
Universities and colleges use their own branding. The directory sits on your domain, a subdomain like experts.name.edu. For users, the directory is part of your website.
Fully responsive, mobile first
All directory pages and the profile manager are responsive and can be used on mobile, desktop and tablets.
Download data at any time
Download profile data at any time, even if you decide to stop using a directory powered by Expertise Finder.
Analytics and reporting
Custom analytics gives valuable insights about popular search terms, popular experts and more. Insights you need to build reports and refine your strategy.
Built using open source software
No expensive licensing. We pass those savings on to our clients. Support an open internet.
Multiple users
You can have as many logins as you wish for people to manage the directory via the profile manager.
Premium support
All customers get a dedicated account manager. Someone on your side to help set up, grow and train staff as needed.
Expert Systems Integrations
You can request integration with HR and any other knowledge management system used by your institution. Integrations are optional and come at an additional cost.
Pricing for Universities, Colleges and Research Centers
$400/month
- No contract
- No setup fee
- Unlimited profiles
or visit our pricing page to learn more
FAQ about Faculty Expert Directories and Researcher Profiles
What is expert directory software?
How is your faculty expert directory software different than a traditional people directory?
Second, we have a search engine built for academic expertise finding.
With our faculty expertise management and discovery software, institutions improve productivity and collaboration while promoting their university or college brand. Tools that try to solve many different problems often deliver poor results. You need an experts directory built specifically for universities/colleges.
How much does it cost?
To read all questions and answers, see the FAQ page
