Over the past fifty years, the US government has steadily increased funding for shared
research facilities known as “core facilities,” with the aim of fostering discovery, innovation …

The challenge of how to introduce new opportunities and make the most of expertise within
our existing research systems will not be an unfamiliar concept to many across the scholarly …

This article explores how researchers in a scientific research lab co-operate with each other
and value these co-operations, using a case study of a life sciences lab as an illustrative …

Consider a hypothetical scenario: A new faculty member is happy to start her independent
university faculty career with a substantial startup package, which allows her to purchase a …

Collaborating with faculty in other departments on campus can be one of the most rewarding
and challenging types of research partnerships for the practitioner-researcher librarian. The …

Anyone who has been involved with a cross-disciplinary team that combines scientists and
information technology specialists knows just how tough it can be to move these efforts …

Research scientists have become increasingly dependent on collaborations across
laboratories and organizations to maintain their productivity. However, the increased …

Since its creation in 1996, Loyola University's Center for Urban Research and Learning
(CURL) has used collaborative university-community research teams to complete more than …

Understanding how science and technology advance has long been of interest to diverse
scholarly communities. Thus far, however, such understanding has not been easy to map to …

The purpose of this chapter is to examine how science shops, institutional intermediaries
that coordinate and execute community-engaged research, can foster a culture of critical …