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Community of Science

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Community of Science (COS) is a collection of online databases, providing research information to both the public and subscribers, and services for the research community. It is owned by ProQuest.

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History

COS was founded in 1988 by Johns Hopkins University.

The COS databases were originally hosted online at http://cos.gdb.org/, on the webserver of the GDB Human Genome Database. COS was also accessible via U.S. Department of Agriculture CRIS, National Science Foundation, and Department of Health and Human Services.

As of 1997 the CEO and president was Huntington Williams, and the organisation was located in Baltimore, Maryland.

Databases

  • COS Expertise
  • COS Funding Opportunities - categorised according to a standardised list of keywords

    • Canadian editions of these databases also existed.

    Services

  • COS Funding Alert
  • COS Funding News - published biweekly

    • Access

    The following organisations are subscribed:

  • Association of Commonwealth Universities

    • References

    Community of Science Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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