Attachment VIII

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FACULTY-STUDENT AUTHORSHIP GUIDELINES

The following guidelines, drafted by Professors Scharlach and Barth and discussed and amended by the Doctoral Committee in its January and February spring 1995 meetings, were adopted on February 23, 1995. Guidelines one through five are intended to pertain to all faculty-student authorship decisions, while guideline six specifically concerns dissertation work.

1. As part of their orientation to the doctoral program, all doctoral students should be given information regarding the publication process, including the nature of professional contributions and criteria for deciding authorship.
   
   
2. Early in their work with students, faculty members have a responsibility to discuss each contributor's responsibilities and authorship expectations so that informed consent can be given by all participants. Faculty have a special responsibility to help students make as much contribution as they are able to.
   
   
3. All conntributors making a substantial contribution ("professional contribution" as described by Fine & Kurdek, 1993) should be listed as authors.
   
   
4. Order of authorship generally should reflect extent of contribution, except that the level of contribution required for students to be listed as authors may be less than that required of faculty. When individuals' contributions are approximately equal, preference in order of authorship should be given to students. In some cases, Winston's (1985) criteria may be useful for determining relative levels of contribution.
   
   
5. If a student and faculty member are unable to reach agreement regarding authorship, the student should first seek assistance from her or his adviser, then from the chair of the doctoral committee, the dean, and/or the campus ombudsperson.
   
   
6. Because faculty have the responsibility to assure that students' dissertations represent original, independent work, articles that students prepare directly from their dissertation findings would be expected to list the student as first author.

References

Fine, M. A., & Kurdek, L. A. (1993). Reflections on determining authorship credit and authorship order on faculty-student collaborations. American Psychologist, 48, 1141-1147.

Winston, R. B. (1985). A suggested procedure for determining order of authorship in research publications. Journal of Counseling and Development, 63, 515-518.

 

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