1. For routine services that can be easily purchased from outside, we ask
for no acknowledgement. This includes DNA synthesis, HPLC analyses and
purification, protein purification, AA, and routine MS. We are paid employees.
2. For the use of facility equipment by the PI's and post-docs, for the
training of such outside operators, we insist on acknowledgments of the
equipment donors and of the facility. The NIH CORE grants and the state of
Pennsylvania appropriations that assist the facilities are required
acknowledgments on all papers that uses any shared facilities, which
encompasses almost all papers.
3. For services that contribute in a major way to research programs, either
in terms of weeks of services or intellectual input, we are granted
co-authorships on papers. Examples include synthesis of kilobase genes,
fermentation optimization for protein production, optimization of difficult
protein purification, exploration of new applications with novel
chemistries, and solving of research puzzles by mass-spectrometry.
4. For long term interactive participation or as a driving force behind the
feasibility of a grant project, we ask for 10% to 20% salary coverage of
the key operators on the PI's grants, as co-investigators or essential
helpers, in addition to co-authorships. Examples are phosphorylation
pattern analysis of a regulation system, to provide long term metabolite
analysis by HPLC in a project, and elucidation of an enzyme mechanism using
chemistry and MS. Such arrangements simplify long range planning. This
category covers facility personnel only, and does not include my own
participation as co-PI on RO1's of other laboratories on non-facility
related projects.
On a related point, we devote discretionary time to exploratory projects
that generate co-authorships and coinvestigatorships, but co-authorships do
not substitute for the service fees.
Tony
At 05:55 PM 6/30/98 -0700, Deb McMillen wrote:
>Hi, all,
>Our faculty are (finally) having a discussion concerning
>core (service) personnel and authorship on publications. Several support
>personnel will be affected by this discussion: an electron microscopist,
>a histologist, a DNA sequencer, and myself with HPLC, protein sequencing,
>and much miscellani. I know that we have had several discussions about
>this on this network. I'd like to ask what guidelines you use in your
>core facilities for publication vs. acknowledgement. Also, has anyone
>else saved the earlier emails on this topic--and could you forward a copy
>of them to me?
>
>Thanks very much for your input,
>Deb McMillen
>Institute of Molecular Biology
>University of Oregon
>Eugene OR
>
>
>
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