From Shared Horizons to Impactful Collaboration and Engagement: The Interagency Partnership of the National Endowment for the Humanities/National Library of Medicine, 2012-2024.

Interagency journal Pub Date : 2024-01-01
Frank Vitale, Jeffrey S Reznick
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In 2012, leaders in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) established an interagency partnership to collaborate on research, education, and career initiatives located at the intersection of biomedical and humanities research. Shortly thereafter, the agencies joined with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and Research Councils UK (now known as UK Research and Innovation) to convene the symposium Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, and the Digital Humanities. Researchers Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel praised the symposium for "betray[ing] an astonishing optimism: the idea that historians and philosophers and artists and doctors and biologists, thinking about data together, can advance their individual causes better than any of them can alone." Aiden and Michael continued "The conference title…was dead-on. At the interface of all our work lies the most exciting terrain in our intellectual future" (206-7). Ten years on, the NEH-NLM interagency partnership has catalyzed and facilitated joint leadership yielding multiple collaborations, engagements, public programs, and open access publications involving dozens of individuals and touching thousands more. At every turn these initiatives have advanced the complementary missions of the NEH and the NLM, including their commitment to open access publishing, as defined by UNESCO to be "the provision of free access to peer reviewed, scholarly and research information to all,… requir[ing] that the rights holder grants worldwide irrevocable right of access to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and make derivative works in any format for any lawful activities with proper attribution to the original author." This article takes stock of the NEH-NLM interagency partnership, conveying its impact on and relevance to the public service of both agencies. As discussed, the NEH-NLM partnership advances a "whole of society approach" toward improving individual and public health writ large: not only in terms of connecting lab, clinic, and community, but also more broadly in terms of supporting the dissemination of trusted health information and sharing knowledge about the human condition across time and place and as studied by a variety of disciplines ranging from the sciences to the social sciences to the humanities. The partnership also advances a "whole of government" approach toward making government more efficient, transparent, accessible, and impactful through outcomes that are not possible when working in isolation. Examining a decade-plus history demonstrating leadership, management, and mutual support among public sector colleagues, this article points to fundamental lessons learned to help achieve "whole of government" activities in other contexts for the greater good.

从共同的视野到有影响力的合作与参与:国家人文基金会/国家医学图书馆机构间合作伙伴关系,2012-2024 年。
2012年,美国国家人文基金会(NEH)和美国国家医学图书馆(NLM)的领导人建立了一个跨机构合作伙伴关系,在生物医学和人文科学研究的交叉点开展研究、教育和职业计划方面的合作。此后不久,这些机构与马里兰理工学院在英国人文科学和研究委员会(现在被称为英国研究与创新)联合召开了研讨会“共享视野:数据、生物医学和数字人文科学”。研究人员埃雷兹·艾登(Erez Aiden)和让-巴蒂斯特·米歇尔(Jean-Baptiste Michel)称赞这次研讨会“揭示了一种惊人的乐观主义:历史学家、哲学家、艺术家、医生和生物学家一起思考数据,可以比他们中的任何一个人更好地推进他们各自的事业。”艾登和迈克尔继续说:“会议的标题……完全正确。在我们所有工作的交汇处,是我们智力未来最激动人心的领域”(206-7)。十年来,NEH-NLM机构间的伙伴关系催化和促进了联合领导,产生了涉及数十个人和数千人的多种合作、参与、公共项目和开放获取出版物。在每一个阶段,这些举措都推动了NEH和NLM的互补使命,包括它们对开放获取出版的承诺,教科文组织将其定义为“向所有人免费提供同行评审的学术和研究信息,……要求权利持有人授予全世界不可撤销的获取复制、使用、分发、传播、并为任何合法活动制作任何形式的衍生作品,并注明原作者的出处。”本文对NEH-NLM的机构间伙伴关系进行了评估,传达了它对两个机构的公共服务的影响和相关性。如前所述,NEH-NLM合作伙伴关系推进了一种“全社会方法”,以改善个人和公共卫生:不仅在连接实验室、诊所和社区方面,而且在更广泛的方面,支持传播可信的健康信息,分享有关人类状况的知识,这些知识是由从科学到社会科学再到人文科学等各种学科研究的。这一伙伴关系还推动了一种“整个政府”的做法,通过取得孤立工作无法取得的成果,使政府更有效率、更透明、更便利和更有影响力。本文考察了十多年来在公共部门同事之间展示领导、管理和相互支持的历史,指出了从中吸取的基本教训,以帮助在其他情况下实现“整体政府”活动,以实现更大的利益。
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