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... GUIDELINES FOR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SCIENTISTS AND PRIVATE-SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS As illustrated in previous chapters, the involvement of private-sector organizations in collecting environmental data and creating and disseminating data products creates both problems and opportunities for environmental researchers. Environmental research scientists obtain the great majority of their data from public-purpose information systems but supplement this source by making additional measurements or purchasing commercial data.
From page 76...
... are likely to be more expensive and thus less competitive in the proposal process. Mechanisms for the scientific community to convey their collective needs to commercial vendors are currently insufficient.
From page 77...
... open access to data and core products and (29 peer-reviewed publication. In addition, global change research requires the compilation of high-quality, long-term, global databases that are suitable for a wide varied of scientific purposes.


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