A tale of two cores: a quantitative comparative analysis of the institutional and the open access models for flow research technology platforms

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Quinquennium of sorting for Cambridge Quinquennium of 'sorting for... Emerging divergence: origins Shortage of capacity: perception... Current and projected capacity... Conclusions References Biomedical specialist core facilities are major part of institutional infrastructure in academia and play important role in research by creating access to well established and emerging technologies and being a source of valuable expertise. In each particular case, the extent, range and content of services they provide are determined by the technology specialism, demands of the users and institutional/overarching policies.\n\nIn 2012, two flow cytometry core facilities embarked on a new journey in development of their services to research community in Cambridge. Both facilities started from the same initial level: ...