Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.