Publishing your Experiment Results

Unless you have paid for proprietary beam time, your primary obligations after completing your experiment are to (1) publish your results, with suitable acknowledgment of ORNL and the beam line, and (2) notify ORNL of such publications.

Users will credit ORNL in all publications resulting from experiments performed at these facilities. Publications, papers, patents, honors and awards and their citations will also be reported to the Neutron Scattering Science User Office to assist the facilities in recording the contributions of its users. Publications written about research performed at these facilities must include an acknowledgment of support as follows:

"[A portion of] This Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's High Flux Isotope Reactor [and/or Spallation Neutron Source, as appropriate] was sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U. S. Department of Energy.."

Authorship of publications based on research from these facilities should reflect the normal considerations of recognizing collaborations. The normal guidelines for collaborations have been discussed by many organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society (02.2 APS Guidelines For Professional Conduct).

It is also important to take into account the considerable efforts of the instrument scientists in their role of designing, constructing, and/or operating the instrument and related facilities. To avoid misunderstanding, it is appropriate that the experiment proposer and colleagues at the host facility discuss recognition as co-author or other acknowledgement prior to the beginning of the experiment. ORNL expects publications that include its staff on the author list to be reviewed internally prior to submission for publication.

Research and development shall be conducted and communicated in accordance with the highest scientific, professional, and ethical standards and in a manner that fosters mutual respect and enhances the reputation of the individual researcher, his/her colleagues, and ORNL as the institution of choice for addressing the DOE's, the Nation's, and society's most urgent and demanding scientific and technical challenges.