4researchers.org
4researchers is a publicly available website offering more than 1,300 free articles, videos, presentations, and online courses developed in collaboration with well-respected experts in a variety of fields and designed to make conducting research easi… |
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Kameny, Rebecca (3-C Institute for Social Development) |
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50 Social Sites for Science Students, Researchers and Professionals
This is a list of 50 networks, blogs, and other social networking sites created by scientists, for scientists, in a variety of fields, in order to support academic connections and collaboration. Go to - http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/09/28/50-soci… |
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A Template for Integrating Interdisciplinary Research and Team Science into the Tenure Track Offer Letter
Although every recruitment is unique, emphasis on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary science is becoming quite common. Research institutions wanting to encourage collaborative research while promoting development of bright early career researche… |
Tenure and Promotion Policy |
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A user-friendly method for generating overlay maps
We follow the method introduced in Rafols & Meyer (forthcoming) to create the overlay map on the basis of a global map of science (Leydesdorff & Rafols, 2009). The steps described below rely on access to the Web of Science and the files available in … |
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Access CTSI Services to Enable Research Website
Dealing with the corporate world is mystifying to academics whose main training has been oriented toward research, teaching, and clinical duties. Alliances between universities and industry are playing an increasing role in facilitating cutting-edge … |
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Advancing Collaboration Practice program (ARACY)
The Advancing Collaboration Practice program is targeted at people and organisations interested in collaborative action.
The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) has established the Advancing Collaboration Practice program t… |
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Advancing the Science of Team Science
The public health, social, technological, and environmental problems that impact our world are complex, but increasingly we are able to address them through scientific pursuit. The sophistication of these challenges necessitates crossdisciplinary
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Falk-Krzesinski, Holly (Research Team Support, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institut) |
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Team Science Award
This award was established by the AACR and Eli Lilly and Company to incentivize and reward interdisciplinary team science in cancer research, by recognizing teams of scientists that have made important contributions, and their institutions. The awar… |
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) |
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Assessing the Value of Team Science: A Study Comparing Center and Investigator-Initiated Grants
This paper reports on a quasi-experimental longitudinal study conducted to compare bibliometric indicators of scientific collaboration, productivity and impact of center-based transdisciplinary team science initiatives and traditional investigator-in… |
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Hall, Kara (The Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, 6130 Executive Bl) |
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Association for Integrative Studies (AIS) Selected Interdisciplinary Syllabi
This page presents courses that feature explicit exploration of the nature of interdisciplinarity and of disciplines. The courses listed thus far are from interdisciplinary degree programs, but courses from other kinds of programs are also welcome. C… |
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Association for Integrative Studies homepage
US-based international membership organization devoted to interdisciplinary research and teaching. |
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Newell, Bill (Association for Integrative Studies) |
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Beyond Collaboration: Strategic Restructuring of Nonprofit Organizations
The James Irvine Foundation — sensing an increased interest among nonprofit sector leaders in partnership opportunities — commissioned a study by David La Piana of the future role of strategic restructuring. That study led to Beyond Collaboration: St… |
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La Piana, David (La Piana Associates, Inc.) |
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BioMedExperts (BME)
This is a social networking website where biomedical researchers can connect to collaborate on new research and share data. It allows scientists to search for potential collaborators based on their areas of expertise and professional networks. As … |
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Elsevier |
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Blanche: A multi-agent based computational modeling environment
Blanche is a multi-agent based computational modeling environment designed to specify, simulate, and analyze the evolution and co-evolution of networks. It is intended to be used by researchers who wish to formulate a hypothesis of how a particular n… |
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund report: Thriving in an Era of Team Science
THE BURROUGHS WELLCOME FUND is an independent private foundation dedicated to advancing the biomedical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. Within this broad mission, BWF seeks to accomplish two
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund, 21 T.W. Alexander Drive, P.O. Box 13901, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709- |
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caBIG Data Sharing and Intellectual Capital Knowledge Center
The caBIG Data Sharing and Intellectual Capital (DSIC) Knowledge Center is an NCI-supported entity led by the University of Michigan. The DSIC Knowledge Center provides a centralized, authoritative repository of processes, model agreements, and other… |
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Cancer Survivorship Training for Health Care Professionals
Cancer Survivorship Training (CST) is an eLearning solution and an online community for health care professionals. Our goal is to provide education and resources that increase users' knowledge and understanding of cancer survivorship care, thereby i… |
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Klemp, Jennifer (University of Kansas Medical Center) |
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Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities Evaluation Handbook
This handbook for the Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) Evaluation contains the information and materials needed to implement the evaluation at each of the Center sites. Plans, materials and approaches were discussed by th… |
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Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities Managing Human Subjects Project Managers Toolkit
Managing Human Subjects Research Projects: A Tool Kit for Project Managers was
written by seasoned project managers from more than eight institutions nationwide. The
authors came together to document their experiences operationalizing multidiscipli… |
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CES4Health.info
CES4Health.info is a unique, online mechanism for peer reviewing and disseminating products of community-engaged scholarship (CES) in forms other than journal articles. The results of CES are often disseminated through products that are accessible an… |
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Jordan, Cathy (CES4Health) |
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C-IKNOW: A web-based software tool for social network analysis investigation
C-IKNOW is a powerful web-based software tool for social network analysis investigation. It has been designed around real-world problems, and it can store and analyze virtually any type of network data. The documentation provides a basic step-by-step… |
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COALESCE
Solutions to complex scientic problems require teams of diverse specialists working across the boundaries of disciplinary silos. The COALESCE project, also known as teamscience.net, aims to create, evaluate, and disseminate durable, readily accessibl… |
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Spring, Bonnie (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) |
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Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide
Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide is intended for anyone who is currently participating on or leading a research team, considering becoming involved in a research team, or contemplating building a research team.
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National Institutes of Health |
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Collaboration Success Wizard
The Collaboration Success Wizard is an on-line diagnostic survey for geographically distributed collaborations. The survey probes factors that may strengthen or weaken the collaboration. The Wizard provides both personal and project-level reports to … |
On-line diagnostic survey |
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Collaboration Tool Survey
By design, SciDAC projects are collaborative, involving widely distributed teams of researchers. Hence, use of software tools and services within the SciDAC community to support collaboration and access to shared resources can be an important compone… |
Survey tool |
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Comparison of Research Networking Tools and Research Profiling Systems Wiki
Research Networking (RN) is about using web-based tools to discover and use research and scholarly information about people and resources. Research Networking tools (RN tools) serve as knowledge management systems for the research enterprise. RN tool… |
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Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia |
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Comprehensive List of Collaborative Funding Mechanisms
This document is a comprehensive list of research grant mechanisms, types, and programs representing collaborative, cross-disciplinary(multi/inter/transdisciplinary) and team-based funding opportunities put together by the National Organization of Re… |
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CREW: Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work
Outlines research on ways new technologies better enable organizations.
Research on how new technologies enable new ways of organizing work is of vital interest to organizations, both as providers and users of this technology. CREW has performed … |
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School of Information, University of Michigan |
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CTSA Research Networking Evaluation Guide
Resource developed for NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Science Award institutions by the CTSA Research Networking Affinity Working Group to privde a basic information and guidance on evaluating Research Networking (RN) tools. |
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Barnett, William (Indiana University and Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute) |
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Data Sharing and Security Framework
The DSSF is an analytical tool designed to contribute to an understanding of the nature of any mandatory legal restrictions on data sharing and agreements, if any, necessary to facilitate proposed exchanges. The tool graphically depicts the four sepa… |
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DIRECT: Distributed Interoperable Research Experts Collaboration Tool
Research networking tools use data-mining, social networking and semantic web approaches to enable expertise discovery, matchmaking and more. Several research networking platforms have been built--the commercial product SciVal Experts (formerly Colle… |
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Duke Research on Research Group
This group (and site) provides information on research coaching, process coordination for research networks, and intellectual property issues. The group provides consulatation services and the site includes training modules on different elements of r… |
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Evaluating Research Centers and Institutes for Success: A manual and guide with case studies
A manual based on a NSF funded national study of 300 research centers and other recent data.
This book is written for several perspectives: First, to give top managers and directors the tools to do the evaluations efficiently and well, to enhance… |
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Tash, William R. |
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Examining Core Elements of International Research Collaboration: Summary of a Workshop
A working group of the National Academies’ Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) organized and hosted a workshop in July 2010 titled "Examining Core Elements of International Research Collaboration" that considered a number of co… |
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Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), The National Academies (The National Academies' Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR)) |
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Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research and Education: A Practical Guide
The scientific community is talking about the need to embrace interdisciplinary research and education. Many individuals, programs, and institutions have made great advances in developing a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, but systemic progre… |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science |
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Federation of IRBs Toolkit
The Federation of IRBs Toolkit contains customizable materials that are required for creating and executing memorandums of understanding necessary to establish a Federation of IRBs that works collaboratively to centralize high quality human subject p… |
Research Protocol |
National Children’s Study (NCS) and the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Network |
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Gephi
Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is open-source and free. Gephi is a tool for people that want to… |
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Bastian, M. |
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Guidelines for Integrative Training in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research Settings: Hints and Tools for Trainers of Trainers
Research on global change and sustainable development issues requires a transdisciplinary approach, which implies close cooperation both between different scientific disciplines (interdisciplinarity), and between scientists and other societal actors.… |
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NCCR North-South |
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I Am Researcher, the Global Researcher Network -- http://www.iamresearcher.com
This is an "intelligent" networking platform for researchers, to help support them in identifying potential collaborators with specific areas of expertise, and in forging new collaborations. As of December 2011, it includes over 9 million publicatio… |
Social networking sites for sc… |
Yang, Yang (I Am Researcher) |
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i2iConnect
i2iConnect is a searchable database of industry contacts who are looking for innovating ideas and products. It is aimed at researchers and innovators in academia and elsewhere to enable them to quickly find potential industry partners who are interes… |
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idr: Measuring and Mapping Interdisciplinary Research
This website offers a novel tool, the overlay maps of science, as a method to explore the degree of interdisciplinarity of a set of publications. The overlay technique visualizes the spread of publications over the global map of science, i.e. the str… |
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Rafols, Ismael |
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Interdisciplinary Hiring, Tenure, and Promotion: Guidance for Individuals and Institutions
Traditional scholarly evaluation, reward, and promotion systems tend favor disciplinary and sub-disciplinary research expertise and experience over interdisciplinary successes. At the same time many important research questions require integration of… |
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Interlink Website Development & Training Dissemination
Interlink is a collection of innovative web-based technologies and services specifically designed to support academic and research collaboration. Interlink offers website development and enhancement services, including seamless integration of collabo… |
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Kameny, Rebecca (3-C Institute for Social Development) |
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Interview Guide for TREC Scientists
Interview guide for TREC scientists from 2010 study on lessons learned from the TREC I initiative |
Interview Guide |
Vogel, Amanda (NCI) |
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Inventories: Seven Norms of Collaboration & Effective Meetings
The seven norms of collaboration are essential capacities and skills for high-performing groups. They operate within several practical frameworks that help groups to develop shared meaning and gracefully reach decisions.
The collaborative norms of… |
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Garmston, R. |
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Laboratree - A Web-based Platform for Research Collaboration
Laboratree is a secure web-based platform that provides a virtual workspace for dispersed teams to improve communication and data and information sharing, thereby reducing team disconnection that leads to poor project outcomes. The software mirrors … |
Virtual Workspace for Team Sci… |
Pincus, Jack (Selican Technologies, Inc.) |
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Learning Team Collaboration Survey
This survey is intended to help us learn about our current collaborative practices and our goals for collaboration. Please complete this survey with the members of your learning team as honestly and thoughtfully as possible. By gathering reliable inf… |
Team Collaboration Survey |
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Link to Columbia University's Responsible Conduct of Research courses portal
sA lone researcher struggling to answer the “big question” in his or her discipline tends to be the exception in academia these days. Researchers in many fields prefer to work with others in and out of their areas, in order to obtain complementary ex… |
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RCR Collaborative Science, Columbia University |
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Link to Research to Reality webinar: Research to Reality: Howdy, Partner! Using the PARTNER Tool to Track and Analyze Community Partnerships
The PARTNER Tool (Program to Analyze, Record, and Track Networks to Enhance Relationships), is a free social network analysis tool designed to demonstrate how community organizations members are connected, how resources are leveraged and exchanged, t… |
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Varder, Danielle (School of Public Affairs and School of Public Health, School of University of Colorado, Denver) |
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Link to Research to Reality webinar: Research to Reality: Working with Partners to Implement Evidence-based Programs with Fidelity
Cyber-Seminar Description:
Reducing the burden of cancer on the public requires not just an understanding of "what works" but an effective approach to move evidence-based interventions (EBIs) and programs into community practice. The National Cancer… |
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National Cancer Institute |
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