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Selection Process for Research Infrastructure Projects
Selection Process for Research Infrastructure Projects
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but it Is possible to suggest that survey data that could be aggregated to give more focused details on the facilities, instruments, and instrumentation resources in the behavioral and social sciences would help make the future decision process on research infrastructure more informed. The fragmentation of information on infrastructure investments in the behavioral and social sciences is exacerbated by the lack of any comprehensive data on data infrastructure itself.
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CData from National Science Foundation/SRS, Survey of Academic Research Instruments and Instrumentation Needs: 1993. dThis is the percentage of total expenditures for facilities, equipment, and instrumentation as reported in the above surveys that is spent on the social sciences and psychology.
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members also prepare independent reviews. Advisory panels discuss independent reviews and write a pane!
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· Infrastructure investments typically require a longer time to reach full productivity than investments in discrete individual-investigator research proposals. These differences helped frame the workshop discussion and CBASSE's conclusion that differences between infrastructure investments and individual research grants should be reflected in a revised selection process for behavioral and social science research infrastructure.
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Recommended Selection Process in the opinion of CBASSE members, behavioral and social science research infrastructure is too important to the long-term development of the sciences to continue to be funded under the current process used for individual research grants. Rather, a separate selection process for infrastructure proposals should be developed, one that is consistent with the characteristics of research infrastructure.
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(National Science Board, 1998: 1,71. Workshop participants discussed in some detail the need to have infrastructure proposals judged on criteria that are appropriate for each infrastructure project.
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For evaluation of the technical aspect of research infrastructure projects, illustrative criteria might include: -- the availability of the infrastructure (whether center, equipment, or electronic network) for individual researchers in multiple disciplines and the expected rate of use of the infrastructure; -- the ability of the proposing group to administer the proposed infrastructure activity responsibly, efficiently, and effectively; and -- the relationship of the proposed project's cost to the importance of the questions to be addressed and to the costs of other infrastructure projects.
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