Cyto 2015
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This document discusses how to track publications that utilize core facilities to ensure proper acknowledgment of the core's work. It recommends tracking the annual subsidy and outputs of the core facility, monitoring publications for keywords and institutional mentions, and notifying authors when the core's contributions are not acknowledged. By quantifying inputs and outputs over time, the core can foster relationships that encourage acknowledgment and justify the core's value to funders and the institution.
Cyto 2015
- 1. Acknowledgement Accounting 101 How to ensure your work is being recognized Ryan Duggan, UCFlow
- 2. A Blog about the world of Image and Flow Cytometry. Coming to you from the core facility at the Univer of Chicago UCFlow Flow Cytometry news, reviews, and tips. F r i d a y , 油 D e c e m b e r 油 1 9 , 油 2 0 1 4 Core Facility Acknowledgment Accounting 101 - How to make sure your work is being recognized. A recent article in Biotechniques has spurred some interesting discussions in the Academic Core Facility (or as we cytometry cores like to call them, Shared Resource Laboratories SRLs) world. The gist of the article states that all too often core facilities are not properly acknowledged in publications that clearly are using the services provided by their institutional cores. The flipside of this argument is that investigators are already paying for the services rendered so that fee is essentially all the "acknowledgment" that is required. However, since many times core facilities are partially funded by government agencies, the services (and more accurately the service recharge rates) are being subsidized. Therefore, the油payment油isn't油payment油enough. Whether you agree or disagree with this basic tenet is really beyond the scope of this post. What I'd like to share here is my way of fostering the proper relationship with my users such that they feel compelled to acknowledge the excellent work of the core instead of feeling obligated to do so. What follows is basically a threepart approach to accomplishing the goal of being acknowledged as a core facility in publications that utilize your services. The reason you may wish to do this could vary, but likely involve justification of your core facility's BioTechniques Article on SRL Attribution Search Search This Blog Cytometry Cytometry Community Ryan油Duggan 89 YouTube UCFlow Google+ Adapted From: ucflow.blogspot.com
- 3. Why Support Grant Justification Centers, Research Projects Facility impact I/O calculations = Institutional cost per publication Grant proposals (instrumentation, research projects, support center grants) Personal edification Total Subsidy ($) # of Publications
- 4. What to track - input What is the annual subsidy of the core? Operating subsidy subsidize direct costs of operating the facility Salary/fringe, supplies, maintenance, etc.. Overhead subsidy lab space, utilities, administration, IT, etc Annual capital allotment.
- 5. What to track - output Publications utilizing your core. Tracking a center support grant by its number Facility technology keywords (flow cytometry, FACS, MACS, ImageStream, Luminex, beads, CyTOF, mass cytometry, cytometry, etc) Institution name gate or known external user names. Publications acknowledging your core Track the facility name or variations of the name (flow cytometry core facility, FACS facility, flow core, cytometry lab, etc) Track individual lab member names
- 6. Find publications PubMed searches can be saved and notifications can be created Google scholar collates publications outside of PubMed, including book chapters. Follow investigators on Research Gate or through your institutional news outlets
- 7. PubMed Example Create Filter
- 9. Skim text for Acknowledgement and Facility usage and add to Zotero
- 10. Thanks!
- 11. Next Time?
- 12. Results Anecdotally, it seems to be working. First 6 months monitoring, I saw ZERO acknowledgements Most recent 6 months, I see about 25% (2 papers I was an author) However, the conversation has been broached and people are becoming aware. Emails are very well received and investigators are even apologetic when failing to acknowledge.
- 13. Conclusions Dont sit back and wait for people to acknowledge. Find the publications Encourage good behavior Correct behavior youd like to change Quantitate all the things!
- 14. Thanks If youd like to reproduce these methods at your own institution, please acknowledge the University of Chicago Flow Cytometry Facility when your administrators shower you with accolades. : )