[sc-announce] Nguyen on our Materials Transfer work - Science Commons blog
Kaitlin Thaney
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
Mon Oct 22 13:21:37 EDT 2007
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/10/22/nguyen-on-mta-work/
Nguyen on our Materials Transfer work
October 22nd, 2007
<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2007/10/22/nguyen-on-mta-work/>
by Kaitlin Thaney
Looking for a better understanding of our Biological Materials Transfer
Agreement project <http://sciencecommons.org/projects/licensing/>? Look
no further <http://mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/itgg.2007.2.3.137>.
The latest edition <http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/itgg/2/3> of
Innovations <http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/itgg> features an
in-depth analysis of our Materials Transfer work, one of our three main
areas of focus at Science Commons. The analysis was written by Science
Commons counsel Thinh Nguyen
<http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/nguyen/>, who also leads our
efforts in this area.
In the article
<http://mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/itgg.2007.2.3.137>, Nguyen
provides the necessary background information about the current system
of transferring biological materials between research institutions, and
the contractual framework associated.
From the article
<http://mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/itgg.2007.2.3.137>:
"Access to unique research resources, such as biological materials
and reagents, is vital to the success and advancement of science.
Many research protocols require assembling a large and diverse set
of materials from many sources. Yet, often the process of finding
and negotiating the transfer of such materials can be difficult and
time- consuming. [...]
[...] Science Commons's Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) Project
seeks to reduce unnecessary barriers to the transfer and reuse of
basic research materials and reagents, for both United States and
international scientific collaboration, by proposing a scalable and
flexible infrastructure for searching, negotiation and tracking."
--
................
Kaitlin Thaney
Project Manager
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
................
--
................
Kaitlin Thaney
Project Manager
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
................
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/sc-announce/attachments/20071022/64e747ea/attachment.htm
More information about the sc-announce
mailing list