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Revision as of 07:37, 19 August 2008 by Macanalyst (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service, is an information resource dedicated to European research and development activities. CORDIS is the official information source for publication of all calls for proposals regarding the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP7). CORDIS is part of the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities Publications Office, the publishing house of the European Union.
Aims
CORDIS’s principal aims are:
- To facilitate participation in Community research activities.
- To improve exploitation of research results, whilst focusing on sectors essential to Europe’s competitiveness.
- To promote the sharing of know-how in order to boost companies’ innovation capacities, in particular by publishing the results of EU-financed research conducted under successive framework programmes, and the espousal of new technologies by society.
CORDIS offers access to a wide range of information on EU research. The portal includes:
- Approximately 230,000 web pages, organised into more than 180 Web services.
- 300,000 records, plus further hosted databases and related services.
- Some 50,000 downloadable documents.
- Extensive user guidance, and a range of sophisticated search facilities, including an automatic e-mail alert facility enabling users to receive notification of updates to information assets