Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences (2003) / Chapter Skim
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4. Sharing Materials Integral to Published Findings
4. Sharing Materials Integral to Published Findings
Pages 51-60
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, materials described in a scientific paper should be shared in a way that permits other investigators to replicate the work described in the paper and to build on its findings. Sharing facilitates new scientific and commercial advances, eliminates duplicative efforts by others to recreate materials, and speeds the progress of science.
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Therefore, if intellectual property rights are associated with a material, a research license should be made available to investigators who request it. If an author does not have rights to distribute the material, the contact information for its original source should be supplied.
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in the life sciences have been routinely accompanied by material transfer agreements (MTAs)
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1 . If the transfer of a material described in a scientific publication requires an MTA, an author should provide, in the appropriate section of the paper, the URL of a Web site where the MTA can be viewed.
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Terms like those slow the progress of science by unfairly extending the provider's rights beyond the material into the recipient's work and by ~nterter~ng warn a rec~p~ent-s participation in research-related activities. For example, a recipient of materials may through their own research arrive at conclusions that differ from those published by the provider of the materials; if required to collaborate or coauthor downstream publications, they would be inhibited from communicating their contrary findings, much to the detriment of the scientific process.
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Similarly, it is a courtesy, but should not be a condition of sharing, to require the recipient to notify the provider if patent applications will be filed on new inventions related to the material or its use. RIGHTS TO NEW INVENTIONS MTAs that accompany transfers of a publication-related material that might have commercial potential raise more complex issues.
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Although not necessarily appropriate for MTAs negotiated outside the context of NIH-funded research, those models are considered to be reasonable vehicles for the transfer of most published materials. The negotiation of an MTA in which the provider seeks rights to new inventions made through the use of the material is the most challenging.
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The purpose of sharing publication-related materials is to enable research that is, to allow the recipients of material to replicate and build on the work of the authors and the terms of MTAs and their negotiation should not create a barrier to this goal. AD institutions engaged in technology transfer should closely examine the merits of adopting a 1 0 standard MTA, and efforts to streamline the process need to be championed at the highest levels of universities, private research centers, and commercial enterprises.
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If the authors do not have rights to distribute the material, they should supply contact information for their original source. A frequently requested reagent can be made reasonably available in the commercial market or by an author's laboratory for a modest fee to cover the costs of production, quality control, updating, and shipping.
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The merits of adopting a standard MTA should be examined closely by all institutions engaged in technology transfer, and efforts to streamline the process should be championed at the highest levels of universities, private research centers, and .
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