Research Guides: Team Science and Collaborative Research: Team Collaboration Agreements

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.

Science of Team Science Resources for Collaboration Agreements

How to Write a Collaboration Plan
The 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 Science
This 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 Agreement
This document contains questions researchers should think about when drafting their collaboration agreement.
Preempting Discord: Prenuptial Agreements for Scientist
This blog post from the NIH Ombudsman's office details what should go into your collaboration agreement.

Collaboration Agreement Resources

Strategies for Team Science Success by Kara Hall (Editor); Amanda Vogel (Editor); Robert Croyle (Editor)
ISBN: 9783030209902

Publication Date: 2019-11-26

Chapter 45 contains information about drafting collaboration agreements

Example Collaboration Agreements

Alaska NSF EPSCoR Collaboration Agreement
This 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.