[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."


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Kaitlin Thaney
Project Manager
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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Kaitlin Thaney
Project Manager
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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