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by: Committee on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine  Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 001.4 EAN: 9780309094351 ISBN: 0309094356 Label: National Academies Press Manufacturer: National Academies Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 332 Publication Date: April 04, 2005 Publisher: National Academies Press Studio: National Academies Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Book Description: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research examines current interdisciplinary research efforts and recommends ways to stimulate and support such research. Advances in science and engineering increasingly require the collaboration of scholars from various fields. This shift is driven by the need to address complex problems that cut across traditional disciplines, and the capacity of new technologies to both transform existing disciplines and generate new ones. At the same time, however, interdisciplinary research can be impeded by policies on hiring, promotion, tenure, proposal review, and resource allocation that favor traditional disciplines. This report identifies steps that researchers, teachers, students, institutions, funding organizations, and disciplinary societies can take to more effectively conduct, facilitate, and evaluate interdisciplinary research programs and projects. Throughout the report key concepts are illustrated with case studies and results of the committee’s surveys of individual researchers and university provosts. 
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