Community of Science is a collection of online database

Online database

An online database is a database accessible from a network, including from the Internet.It differs from a local database, held in an individual computer or its attached storage, such as a CD....

s, providing research

Research

Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...

 information to both the public and subscribers, and services for the research community. It is owned by ProQuest

ProQuest

ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based electronic publisher and microfilm publisher.It provides archives of sources such as newspapers, periodicals, dissertations, and aggregated databases of many types. Its content is estimated at 125 billion digital pages...

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History

COS was founded in 1988 by Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

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The COS databases were originally hosted online at http://cos.gdb.org/, on the webserver of the GDB Human Genome Database

GDB Human Genome Database

The GDB Human Genome Database was a community curated collection of human genomic data. What set GDB apart from other biological databases was its use of world-class leaders in human genetics to act as curators for the data. In order to ensure a high degree of quality, records within GDB were...

. COS was also accessible via U.S. Department of Agriculture CRIS, National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...

, and Department of Health and Human Services.

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.

Access

The following organisations are subscribed:

• Association of Commonwealth Universities
  Association of Commonwealth Universities
  The Association of Commonwealth Universities represents over 480 universities from Commonwealth countries.- History :In 1912, the University of London took the initiative to assemble 53 representatives of universities in London to hold a Congress of Universities of the Empire...