Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- I The Contemporary Collaboratory Vision -- 1 E-Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and Scholarly Communication -- 2 Cyberscience: The Age of Digitized Collaboration? -- II Perspectives on Distributed, Collaborative Science -- 3 From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories -- 4 A Theory of Remote Scienti c Collaboration -- 5 Collaborative Research across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries -- III Physical Sciences -- 6 A National User Facility That Fits on Your Desk: The Evolution of Collaboratories at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory -- 7 The National Virtual Observatory -- 8 High-Energy Physics: The Large Hadron Collider Collaborations -- 9 The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory and the Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory -- 10 Evaluation of a Scienti c Collaboratory System: Investigating Utility before Deployment -- IV Biological and Health Sciences -- 11 The National Institute of General Medical Sciences Glue Grant Program -- 12 The Biomedical Informatics Research Network -- 13 Three Distributed Biomedical Research Centers -- 14 Motivation to Contribute to Collaboratories: A Public Goods Approach -- V Earth and Environmental Sciences -- 15 Ecology Transformed: The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Changing Patterns of Ecological Research -- 16 The Evolution of Collaboration in Ecology: Lessons from the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Program -- 17 Organizing for Multidisciplinary Collaboration: The Case of the Geosciences Network -- 18 NEESgrid: Lessons Learned for Future Cyberinfrastructure Development -- VI The Developing World -- 19 International AIDS Research Collaboratories: The HIV Pathogenesis Program -- 20 How Collaboratories Affect Scientists from Developing Countries.

Conclusion Final Thoughts: Is There a Science of Collaboratories? -- Contributors -- Index.