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'''CORDIS''' is theThe '''Community Research and Development Information Service'''. It('''CORDIS''') is the [[European Commission]]'s primary public repository and portal to disseminate information on all [[European Union]] (EU-) funded research projects and their results in the broadest sense.

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'''CORDIS''' is the '''Community Research and Development Information Service'''. It is the European Commission's primary public repository and portal to disseminate information on all EU-funded research projects and their results in the broadest sense.

The website and repository include all public information held by the Commissioncommission (project fact-sheets, publishable reports, links to publications and deliverabledeliverables), editorial content to support communicationdissemination and exploitation (news, events, success stories, magazines, multilingual "results in brief" for the broader public) and comprehensive links to external sources such as open access publications and websites.

Advisory services on conducting research using CORDIS is available at [[European Documentation Centre]]s across the [[European Union]]EU.

==Services and activities==

CORDIS offers access to a broad range of information and services on EU research, including:

*The primary repository of [https://cordis.europa.eu/projects/en EU-funded research projects and their results], including the formal deliverables collected by the European Commission

*Multilingual "Results in brief" that summarise the outcomes of research projectprojects for a broader public and to support the exploitation of results

*Daily [https://cordis.europa.eu/news/en news],

*Free subscriptions to the research*eu results magazines, also available as PDF and eBooks

*[https://cordis.europa.eu/results-packs/en Result packs]: collections of up-to-date articles focussed on a specific theme for specialised audiences; they are available online and as print brochures

*Daily news and events, provided by both the European Commission and by user contributions

*[https://cordis.europa.eu/search/en Search] and reuse facilities, including custom email alerts, RSS feeds and XML extractions

*An interactive environment to find [http://cordis.europa.eu/partners/ research partners] and to support online groups

*Search and reuse facilities, including custom email alerts, RSS feeds and XML extractions

The CORDIS website is available in six languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish), although much of the scientific content is only in English.

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==Organisation and legal basis==

[https://cordis.europa.eu/about/en CORDIS] is managed by the [[Publications Office of the European Union]], on behalf of the [[European Commission]]'s research Directorates-General and Agencies.

CORDIS was created in 1990 following a Communication of the Commissioncommission for the implementation of an RTD information service (SEC(1988)1831).

The legal basis and financing of CORDIS derive from the work programmes of [[Horizon 2020Europe]] Framework Programme for Research and Technological DevelopmentInnovation.

==Creation==

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1995-96 was a period of further consolidation and development. The CORDIS databases and web services were fully integrated as the migration into the new Information Dissemination environment (IDS) was completed. On-line host access was integrated into Watch-CORDIS and added to the CD-ROM service, allowing users to work both on-line and off-line coherently. The R&D News service was enriched by adding Italian and Spanish, bringing the offer to five languages. The CORDIS-Focus publication was launched, providing readers with a paper edition of key R&D News articles in three languages - EN, FR & DE.

The first move to cover national R&D information was initiated by Ireland with the start of the [[Presidency of the Council of the European Union|EU presidency]] service. By the end of 1996, CORDIS had 24,000 registered users eager to browse through 152 000 database records and accessing the web pages some 300,000 times per month. A period of rapid growth in numbers of users had been initiated by the move onto the WWW.

===Late 90s===

In 1997, Italian and Spanish editions brought the CORDIS focus offer up to five languages. Ireland was succeeded by The Netherlands and Luxembourg as Presidencypresidency countries and both published their presidency services on CORDIS. A new information monitoring service was launched - 'RAPIDUS - RAPId Delivery of Updates on Search-profiles'.

A pilot project was launched to offer CORDIS as a host for national and regional web services. By the end of the year, user registration no longer seemed so relevant as some 53,000 identified users accessed over 800,000 Web pages per month and downloaded nearly 40,000 documents. It had become clear that CORDIS was no longer a tool reserved for specialists, the spectacular growth in use initiated in 1996 had continued.

In 1998-991998–99, the development of CORDIS continued at a brisk pace. A tenth database was added - the R&D Document Library. The four successive EU presidency countries - UK, Austria, Germany and Finland - published their EU presidency services on CORDIS.

The new fifth R&D Framework Programme was officially launched in February 1999 and confirmed the role of CORDIS as the principal and official common information service for all EU R&D activities.

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*2003: Greek and Italian Presidencies, redesigned ERA service, FP6 glossary, new ICA search prototype, Science and Society service, IST Results integration, start of introduction of Integrated CORDIS Architecture

*2004: Irish and Dutch Presidencies, new incubators service, redesigned nanotechnology service. IP and NoE guidance service, Technology platforms,

*2005: Luxembourg and UK presidencies, New 34Mbit34 Mbit/s line/ Géant link-up, Polish news service

==Status around 2005 ==

CORDIS’sCORDIS's principal aims were stated as:

#To facilitate participation in Community research activities.

#To improve exploitation of research results, whilst focusing on sectors essential to Europe’sEurope'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

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== External links ==

* [httphttps://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html CORDIS]

* {{official website|httphttps://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html}}

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