The priorites for use of the facilities is set by the Scientfic Leadership Committee. In most cases, use of the facilities is charged back to the principle investigator. The fee charged only recovers the cost of use.
All research tools and work contributed by our Core Facilities should minimally be acknowledged in any publications. Guidelines for authorship have been established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and similar organizations (e.g., discussed by Huth (Huth, E. J. [1986] in Guidelines on Authorship of Medical Papers, Annals Int. Med. 104 : 269-274) and Bailey (Bailey, B. J. [2001] What Is an Author? Otolaryngol. Head Neck Surg. 124 :2-3 ). These guidelines suggest that if staff scientists from any Core Facilities have helped to design the experiments, have done data analysis and interpretation of data, or both, they should be co-authors of papers that use data generated by the facility, should participate in reviewing pertinent sections of the article, and should give final approval to the manuscript wording and conclusions from those sections before publication.
If you publish articles or receive grants using data or tools generated in our Core Facilities, please:
- Acknowledge the Core Facilities' contributions for "standard" services (see individual facilities pages for information on how to cite a specific facility).
- Consider authorship for more significant intellectual and planning contributions,
- Let us know when something is published or a grant is awarded so that we can track publications and grants.
These actions are crucial for continued support for the Core Facilities you depend on, support both from external funding agencies (see below) and from internal institutional sources. This funding keeps costs for usage of Core Facilities as low as possible.
