An International Workshop
Creating the Information Commons for e-Science:
Toward Institutional Policies and Guidelines for Action
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
1-2 September 2005

Prior Work and References

Paul A. David, “The Economic Logic of ‘Open Science’ and the Balance between Private Property Rights and the Public Domain in Scientific Data and Information: A Primer,” in The Role of the Public Domain in Scientific and Technical Data and Information: A National Research Council Symposium, eds., J. Esanu and P. Uhlir,   Washington, D.C.: Academy Press, 2003. [Avavilable at: http://siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/02-30.html]

Paul A. David and Michael Spence,Towards Institutional Infrastructures for e-Science: The Scope of the Challenge, Oxford Internet Institute Research Report No. 2 (September 2003) [Available at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/publications/RR2.pdf

Paul A. David, “Can ‘Open Science’ be Protected from the Evolving Regime of Intellectual Property Rights Protections?” Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics, 160,  2004: pp.1-26 [Available at: http://siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/02-42.html.]

Paul A. David, "Towards a cyberinfrastructure for enhanced scientific collaboration: Providing its 'soft' foundations may be the hardest part, " in Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy, eds. D. Foray and B. Kahin, Cambridge: MIT Press, forthcoming in 2006.  [Available as Oxford Internet Institute Research Report No 4 (revised May 2005), at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/publications/RR4.pdf.]

Paul A. David, "Innovation and Universities' Role In Commercializing Research Results: Second Thoughts about the Bayh-Dole Experiment,"  in Innovation, Industrial Dynamics and Structural Transformation: Schumpeterian Legacies , ed. F. Malerba, forth coming from Cambridge U.P. in 2005.  [Available as SIEPR Policy Paper No. 04-027 (Stanford University, May 2005) at: http://siepr.stanford.edu/papers/pdf/04-27.html.]

National Research Council, Bits of Power: Issues in Global Access to Scientific Data (1997), Washington, DC, 235 p, available at: http://books.nap.edu/catalog/5504.html

National Research Council, Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science (2004), Washington, DC, 226 p., available at: http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11030.html

National Research Council, A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases (1999), Washington, DC, 142 p, available at: http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9692.html

National Research Council, The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain (2003), Washington, DC, 183 p., available at: http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10785.html

J.H. Reichman and Paul F. Uhlir, "A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data in a Highly Protectionist Intellectual Property Environment" (Winter/Spring 2003), 66 Law & Contemporary Problems 315-462, available at: http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/articles/lcp66dWinterSpring2003p315.htm