Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature

1. Uncertain legal status of microbial genetic resources in a conflicted geopolitical environment; Part I. International Regulation of Genetic Resources and the Assault on Scientific Research: 2. Between public and private goods: emergence of the transnational research commons for plant and microbial genetic resources; 3. Tightening the regulatory grip: from the convention on biological diversity in 1992 to the Nagoya protocol in 2010; Part II. Preserving the Public Research Functions of Microbial Genetic Resources After the Nagoya Protocol: 4. The existing microbial research commons confronts proprietary obstacles; 5. Facilitating transnational exchanges of genetic resources within a redesigned microbial research infrastructure; Part III. A Digitally Integrated Infrastructure for Microbial Data and Information: 6. Legal and institutional obstacles impeding access to and use of scientific literature and data; 7. Enabling the microbial research community to control its own scholarly publications; 8. Fully exploiting data-intensive research opportunities in the networked environment; Part IV. Governing Public Knowledge Assets within a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons: 9. Institutional models for a transnational research commons; 10. Governing digitally integrated genetic resources, data, and literature.