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<H1>Community of Science Web Server</H1>
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<tr><th COLSPAN=2><b>Quick Reference</b></th></tr><p>
<tr><td><A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/info/cosinfo.html"><img src="http://cos.gdb.org/Images/cos/new/logo_B_large_size.GIF" ALT="About the COS"></A></td><p>
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<A href="http://cos.gdb.org/work/best-dbs.html">Expertise, Inventions, and Faclilities</A><p>
<A href="http://cos.gdb.org/best/fed-fund.html">Federally-Funded Research in the U.S.</A><p>
<A href="http://cos.gdb.org/repos/cbd/cbd-intro.html">Commerce Business Daily</A><p>
<A href="http://cos.gdb.org/repos/fr/fr-intro.html">The Federal Register</A><p>
<A href="http://cos.gdb.org/work/best-dbs-canada.html">Canadian Community of Science</A><p>
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<A NAME="exp">
<H1><A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/best-dbs.html">The Community of Science Databases</A></H1>
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The Community of Science  is designed to 
help you identify and locate researchers with interests and expertise similar to
your own.  It contains an on-line inventory of 
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/expertise.html">researchers</A>, 
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/invent.html">inventions</A>, and
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/facil.html">facilities</A>
 at leading U.S. and <A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/best-dbs-canada.html">
Canadian</A> universities, and other R &amp; D
organizations.  The Community of Science contains over 40,000 
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/expertise.html">first-person expertise
records</A>, 5,000 
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/invent.html">inventions records</A>, and 2,000 
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/facil.html">facilities records</A>.
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 In addition, you can now
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/add/custom/partic-add.html">Add Yourself to the Expertise Database</A>.
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<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/maps/cos/exp/states/expstates.html">
Search For Expertise in Specific States.
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<H1><A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/best/fed-fund.html">Federally-Funded Research in the U.S.
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This is a series of databases that provide information about research funded by the
Federal Government.
These databases contain the names and addresses
of Principal Investigators, grant titles, abstracts, and keywords associated with grants
funded by the NIH - <A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/best/fedfund/nih-intro.html">
National Institutes of Health</A>, the  NSF - <A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/best/fedfund/nsf-intro.html">
National Science Foundation</A>, the USDA - 
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/best/fedfund/usda/usda-intro.html">U.S. Department of Agriculture</A>, the 
SBIR - <A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/best/fedfund/sbir/sbir-intro.html">
Small Business Innovation Research Program</A>, and
 the ATP - <A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/best/stc/atp.html">Advanced Technology Program</a>.
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<A NAME="cbd">
<H1><A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/repos/cbd/cbd-intro.html">Commerce Business Daily</A></H1>
The Commerce Business Daily (CBD) lists notices of proposed government procurement actions,
contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information. A new edition
of the CBD is issued every business day. Each edition contains approximately 500 - 1,000 notices.
You may browse or search the Commerce Business Daily database.
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<A NAME="fr">
<H1><img src="http://cos.gdb.org/Images/new-tiny.gif"><A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/repos/fr/fr-intro.html">The Federal Register</A><img src="http://cos.gdb.org/Images/new-tiny.gif"></H1>
The Federal Register provides a uniform system for making available regulations and legal notices
issued by Federal agencies. These include Presidential proclamations and Executive Orders and
Federal agency documents having general applicability and legal effect, documents required to be
published by act of Congress and other Federal agency documents of public interest including funding opportunities.
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<A NAME="fop">
<H1><A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/best/fund.html">Search for Funding Opportunities</A></H1>
This is a series of databases located at various sites in North America 
that describe research funding opportunities in various disciplines.  It includes the 
<A HREF="http://www.med.nyu.edu/nih-guide.html">NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts</A>, 
information from the
<A HREF="http://www.nsf.gov">National Science Foundation</A>,
 Federal Agency Opportunities -
 <A HREF="http://web.fie.com/web/fed/">FEDIX</A>, and 
<a href="http://web.fie.com/htbin/cashe.pl">Funding Opportunities for Minorities</a>.
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<H1><A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/best-dbs-canada.html">The Canadian Community of Science Databases</A></H1>
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Canadian Community of Science  is designed to 
help you identify and locate researchers in Canada with interests and expertise similar to
your own.  It contains an on-line inventory of 
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/expertise-canada.html">researchers</A>, 
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/invent-canada.html">inventions</A>, and 
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/facil-canada.html">facilities</A> 
at leading Canadian</A> universities, and other R &amp; D
organizations.  Canadian Community of Science contains over 6,000 
<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/expertise-canada.html">first-person expertise
records</A>
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<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/work/info/cosinfo.html">
About the Community of Science
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<A HREF="http://cos.gdb.org/best/best.note.html">Drop us a note.</A>
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