Office of Scholarship and Research, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York 10032, USA.
Acad Med. 2011 Mar;86(3):394-401. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31820924ea.
Despite increasing interest in interdisciplinary research, researchers consistently cite institutional barriers as deterrents. Researchers, administrators, and others have suggested developing processes for sharing facilities and administrative (F&A) cost recovery as one way to support collaborative research. Therefore, the authors reviewed current policies for sharing F&A cost recovery and user satisfaction with them.
In 2010, through reviewing institutional Web sites and surveying researchers and grants administrators from a range of institutions, the authors identified different policies currently employed and assessed user satisfaction with them.
Whereas most respondents (80.7%, 205/254) agreed that a standard policy for sharing F&A cost recovery would facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration, only 35.4% (90/254) reported that their institutions had such a policy. Among the 85 respondents who answered questions about their institution's policy, most (66 [77.6%]) reported that the policy applied to grants with multiple principal investigators or coinvestigators across departments or schools, and 68 (80.0%) reported satisfaction with the policy. Respondents from institutions with policies were significantly more likely to endorse the notion that policies are helpful compared with those who reported that their institutions did not have such policies or were unsure of their existence (89% versus 76%, P = .014). The authors detected no significant differences in satisfaction scores based on policy type, whether determined by investigator effort, space allocation, or other considerations (P = .29).
These data support the need for institutions to establish formal policies for sharing F&A cost recovery as a way to promote interdisciplinary research collaboration.
尽管人们对跨学科研究越来越感兴趣，但研究人员仍一致认为机构障碍是阻碍因素。研究人员、管理人员和其他人员建议制定共享设施和管理（F&A）成本回收的流程，以此作为支持合作研究的一种方式。因此，作者审查了当前共享 F&A 成本回收的政策以及用户对这些政策的满意度。
2010 年，作者通过审查机构网站并对来自不同机构的研究人员和赠款管理人员进行调查，确定了当前采用的不同政策，并评估了用户对这些政策的满意度。
尽管大多数受访者（80.7%，205/254）同意，制定共享 F&A 成本回收的标准政策将促进跨学科合作，但只有 35.4%（90/254）的受访者表示他们的机构有这样的政策。在回答有关其机构政策问题的 85 名受访者中，大多数（66[77.6%]）表示该政策适用于具有多个部门或学校的主要研究者或共同研究者的赠款，68（80.0%）对该政策表示满意。与报告其机构没有此类政策或不确定其存在的受访者相比，有政策的机构的受访者更有可能认同政策有帮助这一观点（89%比 76%，P=0.014）。根据政策类型、是否由研究人员的努力、空间分配或其他因素决定（P=0.29），满意度评分没有显著差异。
这些数据支持机构制定正式政策以共享 F&A 成本回收，以此作为促进跨学科研究合作的一种方式。
