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View article: The Unique Role of Federal Scientific Collections: Infrastructure Generating Benefits, Serving Diverse Agency Missions
The Unique Role of Federal Scientific Collections: Infrastructure Generating Benefits, Serving Diverse Agency Missions Open
Scientific research and development are essential in the government, private, and academic sectors of American society. Scientific collections, both living and non-living, are critical components of the U.S. government’s R [and] D infrastr…
View article: Creating Virtuous Cycles for DNA Barcoding: A Case Study in Science Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Diplomacy
Creating Virtuous Cycles for DNA Barcoding: A Case Study in Science Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Diplomacy Open
This essay on the history of the DNA barcoding enterprise attempts to set the stage for the more scholarly contributions that follow. How did the enterprise begin? What were its goals, how did it develop, and to what degree are its goals b…
View article: Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits
Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits Open
Federal collections have been created to serve agency missions and, in a few cases, to comply with legislative and regulatory mandates. The benefits generated by federal scientific collections can take monetary and non-monetary forms, and …
View article: Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits
Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits Open
Federal collections have been created to serve agency missions and, in a few cases, to comply with legislative and regulatory mandates. The benefits generated by federal scientific collections can take monetary and non-monetary forms, and …
View article: The next generation of natural history collections
The next generation of natural history collections Open
The last 50 years have witnessed rapid changes in the ways that natural history specimens are collected, preserved, analyzed, and documented. Those changes have produced unprecedented access to specimens, images, and data as well as impres…
View article: The Global Registry of Biodiversity Repositories: A Call for Community Curation
The Global Registry of Biodiversity Repositories: A Call for Community Curation Open
The Global Registry of Biodiversity Repositories is an online metadata resource for biodiversity collections, the institutions that contain them, and associated staff members. The registry provides contact and address information, characte…
View article: Specimen collections should have a much bigger role in infectious disease research and response
Specimen collections should have a much bigger role in infectious disease research and response Open
When public health officials become aware of the first signs of a disease outbreak, they need to determine a few critical things as quickly as possible. What’s the disease agent? How did it get here? How does it spread and how can it be co…
View article: The New Age of the Nagoya Protocol
The New Age of the Nagoya Protocol Open
The entry into force of the Nagoya Protocol of the Convention on Biological Diversity will lead to new legislation and regulations that could change international collaborative research in biology. This article suggests a new approach that…