Interdisciplinary Collaborations Module 5: Presenting Research

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Intellectual Ownership

• Publication & presentation authorship
  • Eligibility
  • Order
• Other intellectual property issues
  • Copyright
  • Patents

Presenting Research

• Document Planning
  • Determine what should be said and how
  • Divide writing tasks
    • Manuscript sections
    • Author vs. editor
  • Division of credit must be decided before public release
    • Publication
    • Presentation

Presenting Research: Authorship

• Determined by origin of ideas
• Not determined by time, effort, or pay (Derry et al., 1998)
• Published criteria for authorship
  • Professional associations
  • Journal information for authors
• Intellectual work highly valued
• Order may be influenced by need
  • Application for tenure
  • Building track record for grant applications
  • Publication pressure low ? faculty generous in granting authorship
• Peer negotiations about authorship
  • Should be initiated early in the process
  • May evolve as the project evolves
  • Standards for authorship and authorship position may vary for different fields and professions
• Faculty/student conversation about authorship
  • Should be initiated early in the process
  • Explain significance of authorship and meaning of order
  • Jointly decide on level of involvement relative to authorship criteria

Presenting Research: Authorship

The supervisor and student "jointly decide what combination of professional activities warrants a given level of authorship credit." (Fine & Kurdek, 1993)

• A Final Word
  • Authorship implies responsibility for and agreement with all aspects of the data and its interpretation.
  • This principle holds regardless of the relative position of the author in the listing of authors.

Modules in the Series:

• 1: Getting Started
• 2: The Project Begins
• 3: Project Execution
• 4: Collocation vs. Distance
• 5: Presenting Research (current module)
• References and Acknowledgements