Publishing Your Experiment Results
Unless you have paid for proprietary beam time, your primary obligation after completing your experiment is publish your results and notify the user office by entering the bibliographic information into the Neutron Sciences Publications System.
Users are expected to acknowledge ORNL in all publications resulting from experiments performed at SNS or HFIR. Publications, papers, patents, honors and awards, and their citations will also be reported to the User Office to assist the facilities in recording the contributions of its users. Publications based on research performed at our 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 U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences."
Authorship of publications based on research from ORNL 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 researcher proposing the experiment and colleagues at the host facility discuss recognition as coauthor or other acknowledgement before the beginning of the experiment. ORNL expects publications that include its staff on the author list to be reviewed internally before 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 DOE's, the United States', and society's most urgent and demanding scientific and technical challenges.
