The Association of Systematics Collections (ASC) was "an international,

non-profit organization A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...

of institutions that maintain biological collections." Founded in 1972, it was eventually subsumed by the Natural Science Collections Alliance..

SIA RU007459, Association of Systematics Collections, Records, circa 1972-1988 While active, this society held annual meetings, published a bimonthly newsletter, and published numerous reports on natural history collections and

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases spa ...

management.

References

International scientific organizations Organizations established in 1972 {{Nongov-org-stub