BioSRLs - Acknowledgements and Fair Attribution
Acknowledgements
Reports and publications that report data collected using BioSRL instrumentation and technical expertise, must acknowledge the facility.
For data collected on BioSRL instrumentation prior to 31st March 2022:
WISB is a BBSRC/EPSRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre (grant ref: BB/M017982/1) funded under the UK Research Councils' Synthetic Biology for Growth programme.
For data collected on BioSRL instrumentation from the 1st April 2022:
The Authors acknowledge use of [insert equipment] / training / support provided by the Bio-Analytical Shared Resource Laboratories within the School of Life Sciences/Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick.
Fair Attribution
As part of the Technician Commitment, research that has required intellectual contributions from one or more technical staff should include these staff within the author list of the resultant publication or report and they should be included in discussions during drafting and publication. Intellectual contribution includes:
(1) Facility/technical staff supported experimental design and/or data acquisition and/or data interpretation and analysis.
Or
(2) Collaboration with external users in which the facility/technical staff support experimental design and/or data acquisition, and/or data interpretation.
(https://warwick.ac.uk/research/technicians/fairattribution/)