þÿ<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16be-with-bom"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"><html><head><title>Responsible Conduct of Research : Collaborative Science</title><style type="text/css" media="all">@import "../c/annotations.css";</style><script language="JavaScript" src="scripts/newConsole.js"></script></head><body id="body"><a id="top"></a><div id="content"><p>As Howard Gadlin wrote in Preempting Discord: Prenuptial Agreements for Scientists,  nothing should be taken for granted when researchers decide to collaborate. Gadlin suggests that the following questions need to be addressed when a collaboration begins:</p><ul> <li>What are the scientific issues, goals, outcomes, or products of the collaboration? When is the project over? </li> <li>What are the expected contributions of each participant?</li> <li>Who will write the progress and final reports?</li> <li>How will research redirection be decided?</li> <li>What will be the mechanisms of communication among team members?</li> <li>How will new collaborations, such as spinoff projects, be negotiated?</li> <li>Who will make personnel decisions? Who will supervise?</li> <li>What criteria will be used for assigning authorship credit?</li> <li>Who will make public presentations and handle media inquiries?</li> <li>Who will handle intellectual-property and patent applications?</li> <li>How will data be managed, and who will handle data access, long-term storage, and access to data after project completion?</li> <li>What happens if a principal leaves the project?</li> <li>What will be the role of third parties in writing up a research agreement?</li> <li>How will potential conflicts of interest among collaborators be addressed?</li></ul></p></div></body></html>