Community of Science, Inc. (COS) is the
leading Internet site for the global R&D community. COS
brings together the world's most prominent scientists and
researchers (including those in the social sciences
and humanities) at more than 1,600 universities, corporations and government
agencies
worldwide.
COS provides
tools and
services that enable these professionals to communicate,
exchange information and find the people and technologies
that are important to their work.
These services include: COS Expertise®, the database
of detailed, first person profiles of more than 480,000 R&D
professionals; COS Funding Opportunities™, the largest
source of grant information on the Web; COS Abstract Management
System™, an online publishing solution for universities
and professional societies; and customized access to a range
of professional reference databases including U.S. Patents,
MEDLINE, AGRICOLA, and GeoRef, among others.
