home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!goanna!minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au!rrdjro
- From: rrdjro@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Jonathan O'Donnell)
- Newsgroups: sci.research
- Subject: Re: co-authorship
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.002342.21968@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 05:23:42 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.132822.4428@bb1t.monsanto.com> <1992Aug28.030530.7738@tc.cornell.edu> <21226@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <5223@dove.nist.gov>
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
- Lines: 35
-
- gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan Gilligan 303-497-3861) writes:
-
- >In article <21226@optima.cs.arizona.edu> debray@cs.arizona.edu (Saumya K. Debray) writes:
- >>On the flip side, I know a group where the head of the group gets his
- >>name on all his students' papers just because he's the head of the group.
- >>His credibility with me has eroded somewhat because of this.
-
- >On the other hand, the group leader proposed the research in the sense
- >that she wrote the proposal that got the funds to pay for it. It's
- >common practice in the physical sciences that the person whose money
- >pays for the research and who has to spend large amounts of her time
- >writing proposals to continue providing that funding is listed as an
- >author.
-
- >I don't think that this is necessarily the best policy, but that's how
- >it is and I haven't seen any injustice result from it in my limited
- >experience So, while injustice certainly does happen, I don't think
- >that it's very widespread.
-
- The worst case that I have seen goes something like this:
- You are a contract employee, so your name cannot appear on
- the grant application. (Completely untrue in Australia, as
- far as I know.)
-
- Your name didn't appear on the grant application, so we can't
- very well put your name on the publication, now can we?
-
- You weren't listed on any of the publications, so it would
- look really odd if we listed you on the patent application.
-
- Oh, don't worry about the royalties. You can trust me.
- After all, I'm your boss, arn't I?
-
- Jonathan@RMIT.edu.au
- Research Co-ordination Office
-