The University of Birmingham (UoB) is a founding signatory of ‘The Technician Commitment’. A sector wide, collaborative initiative that aims to ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technical staff working in higher education and research, across all disciplines.
The UoB has invested and supports the Technology Hub facilities not only with equipment but also specialist staff. The staff are a key element of our offering since they not only ensure that all equipment is looked after and performing to specification, but they also have a significant experience, and the input and advice is very valuable to our users.
In line with this, the Technology Hub Facilities request that all users of the facilities to recognize its contribution to manuscripts in one of the following ways:
The authors would like to acknowledge the (Facility) at the UoB for support of (technology used) experiments. The authors would like to acknowledge (specialist name).
In some instances, the specialist may make substantial contributions to the conception / design of the work or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for a manuscript. In this case, it is expected that this is appropriately recognized through co-authorship on any publications resulting from the work. Criteria for inclusion of a specialist as an author on a publication. Where the specialist has either:
Performed experiments or analysis, the data from which is included in the manuscript.
Produced customized analysis workflows or scripts for the work.
Significantly contributed to the design, conception, or interpretation of the experiments.