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Team Science and Collaborative Research: Team Collaboration Agreements
This libguide will point you to essentials resources to improve your knowledge and practice of collaborative research, and, more importantly, team science.
Collaboration agreements are specific partnering agreements between collaborators that cover areas where collaboration tends to break down: authorship, roles and responsibilities, project timelines and milestones, group dissolution, data management agreements, etc. This section has some tools to help you draft agreements for your collaboration.
Collaboration Agreement Resources
Strategies for Team Science Success by ISBN: 9783030209902Publication Date: 2019-11-26Chapter 45 contains information about drafting collaboration agreements
Example Collaboration Agreements
- Alaska NSF EPSCoR Collaboration AgreementThis collaboration agreement is from the Alaska's Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (Alaska NSF EPSCoR). The agreement is a living document and will be modified as necessary to reflect changing circumstances over the life of the project.
Science of Team Science Resources for Collaboration Agreements
- How to Write a Collaboration PlanThe document provides guidance for writing a collaboration plan. It identifies ten key aspects of collaboration planning, and highlights specific issues for investigators to consider related to each of the ten aspects of planning.
- Collaboration Plans: Planning for Success in Team ScienceThis poster identifies ten components that we recommend as the core content for collaboration plans. It describes in detail the ten components for collaboration planning, which range from providing a rationale for the proposed team composition to identifying what technologies are needed to support communication and workflow coordination, to planning for conflict prevention and management, to budgeting for the planned resources and activities.
Tools to help draft your collaboration agreeement
- Questions to Consider When Drafting Your Collaboration AgreementThis document contains questions researchers should think about when drafting their collaboration agreement.
- Preempting Discord: Prenuptial Agreements for ScientistThis blog post from the NIH Ombudsman's office details what should go into your collaboration agreement.