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About Community of Science

Subject Multidisciplinary.
Sources
  • Funding Opportunities. Searchable databases of grants and other funding opportunities for research, collaborative activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, post-doctoral positions, capital expenses and more. U.S. and international. Updated daily.
  • COS Expertise. Profiles on more than 400,000 scholarly researchers at member universities and institutions worldwide.
  • Meetings and Conferences. Currently this is a small database; often includes links to the meeting web site and/or the sponsoring association's web site. [Accessible to registered profile holders only; WU faculty and researchers only.]
  • Federal Register (June, 1995 - ). Full text, updated daily.
  • Commerce Business Daily (June, 1995 - ). Full text, updated daily.
  • Funded Research. Information on already awarded funds from National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), United States Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), Small Business Administration (SBA), and Medical Research Council, UK (MRC) [Accessible to registered profile holders only; WU faculty and researchers.]
  • Other services for researchers, authors, conference planners.
Dates Covered Coverage and update frequency varies with each database.
Help Documents
Print Counterpart (backfiles) No print counterpart to most of these files. Several of the U.S. government data, such as Federal Register, Commerce Business Daily and reports of awards from various agencies, are available in several other print and electronic formats.
Provider Community of Scholars/Community of Science, Inc.
Access On the web, limited to current WU students, faculty, and staff. Access to restricted resources from outside the WU campuses.
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