Designing the microbial research commons [electronic resource] : proceedings of an international symposium / Paul F. Uhlir, editor ; Board on Research Data and Information, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies.

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Introduction -- Microbiology in the 21st century -- Breaking anti-commons constraints on global scientific research: some new moves in "legal jujitsu" -- An industry perspective: development of an MTA harmonious with a microbial research commons -- Developing country perspective: microbial research commons including viruses -- A compensatory liability regime to promote the exchange of microbial genetic resources for research and benefit sharing -- The agricultural research service culture collection: germplasm accessions and research programs -- American type culture collection: a model for biological materials resource management -- Contracting to preserve open science: lessions for a microbial research commons -- Designing the digital commons in microbiology-moving from restrictive dissemination of publically funded knowledge to open knowledge environments: a case study in microbiology -- The web-enabled research commons: applications, goals, and trends -- Comments on designing the microbial research commons: digital knowledge resources -- Toward a biomedical research commons: a view from the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health -- Academic publications -- StrainInfo: reducing microbial data entropy -- Research and applications in energy and environment -- Large scale microbial ecology cyberinfrastructure -- Proposal for a microbial semi-commons: perspectives from the international cooperative biodiversity groups -- The international treaty on plant genetic resources -- Microbial commons: governing complex knowledge assets -- Digital research: microbial genomics -- Accessing microbiological data: a user's perspective -- The microbial commons: journals and professional societies -- Microbial commons: overview of the governance considerations: a framework for discussion -- Institutional design and governance in the microbial research commons -- International developments: a context for the creation of a microbiology commons -- Options for governing the microbial commons -- Access and benefit sharing under the CBD and access to materials for research -- Closing observations.

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