Cooperative stewardship : managing the nation's multidisciplinary user facilities for research with synchrotron radiation, neutrons, and high magnetic fields / Committee on Developing a Federal Materials Facilities Strategy, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Developing a Federal Materials Facilities Strategy.

Series:

Compass series.

Compass series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physical laboratories--United States--Management.

Physical laboratories.

Synchrotron radiation sources--United States.

Synchrotron radiation sources.

Neutron sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Committee on Developing a Federal Materials Facilities Strategy was appointed by the National Research Council (NRC) in response to a request by the federal agencies involved in funding and operating multidisciplinary user facilities for research with synchrotron radiation, neutrons, and high magnetic fields. Starting in August 1996, a series of conversations and meetings was held among NRC staff and officials from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Department of Commerce), and the National Institutes of Health. The agencies were concerned that facilities originally developed to support research in materials science were increasingly used by scientists from other fields-particularly the biological sciences-whose research was supported by agencies other than those responsible for the facilities. This trend, together with the introduction of several new, large user facilities in the last decade, led the agencies to seek advice on the possible need for interagency cooperation in the management of these federal research facilities.

Contents:

Front Matter

Preface

Acknowledgment of Reviewers

Contents

Executive Summary

1 Overview

2 Major User Facilities

3 Management Models

4 Cooperative Stewardship Model

References

APPENDIX A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members

APPENDIX B Statement of Task

APPENDIX C Committee Meetings

APPENDIX D Facilities

APPENDIX E Glossary, Acronyms, and Abbreviations.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-55).

ISBN:

9780309172554

0309172551

9780309515726

0309515726

OCLC:

614695409