Infrastructuring ecology: Challenges in achieving data sharing

Collaboration in the New Life Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 111-138

  Baker, Karen S ^a   Millerand, Florence ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIR ST)

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