Cooperative Stewardship Managing the Nation's Multidisciplinary User Facilities for Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons, and High Magnetic Fields (1999) / Chapter Skim
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Instrumenting and operating the experimental stations at the facilities require a significant additional 1 Government funding agencies initially referred to these facilities as "materials facilities" or "major materials research facilities" because many early users were from the materials science community. However, in recent years the user community has broadened enormously to include biologists, chemists, and environmental scientists.
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Because the life sciences are largely outside the traditional missions of the facility stewards, and because many of the new users require more facility and staff support than the traditional users, this growth has raised questions about the identity of the appropriate stewards and sources of facility funding. Financial constraints have also impeded funding for state-ofthe-art instrumentation at the neutron facilities, so much so that some neutrons produced by the cores may not be optimally used (BESAC, 1993~.
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As a result, partnerships have been formed with outside groups to provide expertise and financing for experimental units at most of the synchrotron facilities. A lack of such partnerships at neutron facilities, combined with inadequate funding, has contributed in part to gross inadequacies in experimental instrumentation.
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This program should be of sufficient magnitude and diversity to ensure that the steward's mission is addressed and that external users have adequate quality and quantity of collaboration and technical support in their fields. The steward should support in-house scientific research to advance the science and technology required to produce high-quality photon and neutron beams and high magnetic fields.
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Partners have provided assistance to the stewards, but only on an ad hoc basis. Recommendation: A permanent interagency facilities working group, made up of representation from the appropriate steward and partner federal agencies, should be created under the auspices of the National Science and Technology Council of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to identify issues and to coordinate responses to needs that transcend the missions of the steward agencies.
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These factors can inhibit or needlessly complicate participation at the facilities. Recommendation: The current intellectual property policies and practices at the facilities should be carefully assessed by an independent commission composed of representatives of steward and partner agencies; university, private company, and research institute partners; and user groups.
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