Author: Jon Merz
Date: 07-09-09 18:44
This summary was provided by Alan Stockdale:
Coeus was originally developed by MIT
http://Coeus.mit.edu
to manage research administration. It was later made available for a small one-time fee to other institutions. In 2006 support for Coeus was taken over by the Coeus Consortium (see Coeus.org ), a fee-based membership group that now comprises 50+ academic and non-profit research institutions.
The IRB Module appeared in the 4.0 release of Coeus around 2004. There have been significant upgrades to the module since then. The current release is 4.3 and development is on-going. Development of Coeus 5 is being undertaken by the Kuali Foundation ( kuali.org ), also a non-profit, supported by membership fees. The new software is called Kuali Coeus and is distributed through an open source license, the Educational Community License, Version 2.0:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
The current version of Kuali Coeus, 1.1.1, has some very basic IRB protocol tracking functions. The full IRB module is supposed to appear in the 2.0 release of Kuali Coeus, currently scheduled for release in November 2009. The two programs, Coeus and Kuali Coeus, are scheduled to merge in Q2 2011 when Kuali Coeus 3.1 will be the Coeus 5 upgrade from Coeus 4.5.
Using Coeus to manage IRB functions makes sense if your institution is already using Coeus to manage other research administration tasks (proposals, awards, subcontracts, etc.). Many colleges and universities already use Coeus. The Consortium claims that "members accounted for 22% of all the Research and Development expenditures by colleges and universities in 2004, and 15% of NIH funds awarded in 2005".
Note that this isn't software you install yourself; Coeus is serious enterprise software that runs on an Oracle server backend.
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Links:
Public user manual for Coeus IRB Module (There are newer manuals for more recent versions of Coeus 4.x at coeus.org):
http://web.mit.edu/coeus/www/documents%20&%20forms/IRBmanual.pdf
Online test version of the current Kuali Coeus here:
http://www.kuali.org/testdrive/
Powerpoint on forthcoming Kuali Coeus IRB module:
http://www.kuali.org/files/ppt/kd7/kd7-Kuali_Coeus_IRB.ppt
COEUS Application Mutual Assistance Society:
http://mail.rochester.edu/lsoft/archives/coeus.html
- This is the place to find experienced users of the Coeus IRB Module and get answers to questions.
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