Open source collaboration: Two cases in the U.S. public sector

First Monday

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Hamel, Michael P ^a   Schweik, Charles M ^b,c  

^a University of Massachusetts ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c Natural Products Research   (United States)

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