Following the submission and acceptance of an application or project proposal, external researchers can access it through user agreements. A user agreement covering liability, intellectual property and financial matters is a prerequisite for working in one of Argonne`s user facilities. If you are not an employee of Argonne National Laboratory, a user agreement signed by your home institution is a prerequisite for working at one of Argonne`s user centers. Argonne`s facilities include: The Advanced Photon Source (APS), The Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), The Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) and The Intermediate Voltage Electron Microscopy (IVEM) – Tandem Facility. The Ministry of Energy has recently drafted framework contracts covering liability, intellectual property and financial matters (access models via the links in the left sidebar). The names of the institutions that currently have framework contracts are listed below. * If there is a limited agreement covering participants from your institution for research in the specific body you wish to use, it applies during the transition to a framework contract. Percentages of time in user institutions can be attributed to proprietary research that uses unique capabilities for the benefit of the national economy. Therefore, those who do proprietary searches can access the installation as users. For one`s own research, one obtains full cost coverage. There are agreements to ensure adequate control of the intellectual property of proprietary users so that they can use their experimental results.
Ease of access to user facilities is a priority The traditional SPG copyright transfer agreement transfers copyright from the author to SPG and then grants the author the rights for re-use. Publication rights grant agreements with the UK, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand governments give SPG certain publishing and re-use rights – copyright is not transferred and is retained by the government agency. The vast majority of user research should be publicly available and therefore disseminated through publication in the open literature. There is no cost for the user to access the features of the user installation to perform non-proprietary searches. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that offers several alternatives to the traditional copyright convention, with the goal of maximizing the ability to share and legally use published material. SPG currently uses the Creative Commons Attribution license (3.0 Unported or 4.0 International), the freest of the CC licenses, which allows not only copying, transferring and distributing, but also adapting articles with a correct name…
