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I’d greatly appreciate any input from core facility directors/managers/staff.  How do you inform users about basic core policies – such as lab safety, food/drink, cancellation policies, acknowledgements?

If you have an online or paper agreement that users must sign, does it help with compliance?

For core facility users, how would you prefer to be informed about core policies?

My main goals are

  1.  to provide more explicit expectations and consequences, mostly aimed at those few inconsiderate users who don’t respond to repeated verbal reminders; and
  2.  to increase our rate of acknowledgement in published papers.

Many thanks!
Theresa

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Theresa Swayne, Ph.D.
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Manager, Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource<http://hiccc.columbia.edu/research/sharedresources/confocal>

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University Medical Center
1130 St. Nicholas Ave., Room 222A
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-851-4613
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Dear Theresa

We have our general facilities policies open
http://facilities.igc.gulbenkian.pt/terms.php

Hope this is of any good to you

Best
Nuno

> On 9 May 2018, at 16:28, Swayne, Theresa C. <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> I’d greatly appreciate any input from core facility directors/managers/staff.  How do you inform users about basic core policies – such as lab safety, food/drink, cancellation policies, acknowledgements?
>
> If you have an online or paper agreement that users must sign, does it help with compliance?
>
> For core facility users, how would you prefer to be informed about core policies?
>
> My main goals are
>
>  1.  to provide more explicit expectations and consequences, mostly aimed at those few inconsiderate users who don’t respond to repeated verbal reminders; and
>  2.  to increase our rate of acknowledgement in published papers.
>
> Many thanks!
> Theresa
>
> ------------------------------------
> Theresa Swayne, Ph.D.
> Associate Research Scientist
> Manager, Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource<http://hiccc.columbia.edu/research/sharedresources/confocal>
>
> Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
> Columbia University Medical Center
> 1130 St. Nicholas Ave., Room 222A
> New York, NY 10032
> Phone: 212-851-4613
> [hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>
>
>
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We are running PPMS from stratocore as a booking system, the policies are presented as documents to the users once before they can book a microscope and are available for reference later. The system records who has agreed to the policies and the facility manager can present new documents to the user at any time. We also have a separate mailing list for all users and PIs and can email all users of a certain microscope through the booking system. But the most effective way is to speak to the user directly...

Best wishes

Andreas

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> I’d greatly appreciate any input from core facility directors/managers/staff.  How do you inform users about basic core policies – such as lab safety, food/drink, cancellation policies, acknowledgements?
>
> If you have an online or paper agreement that users must sign, does it help with compliance?
>
> For core facility users, how would you prefer to be informed about core policies?
>
> My main goals are
>
>  1.  to provide more explicit expectations and consequences, mostly aimed at those few inconsiderate users who don’t respond to repeated verbal reminders; and
>  2.  to increase our rate of acknowledgement in published papers.
>
> Many thanks!
> Theresa
>
> ------------------------------------
> Theresa Swayne, Ph.D.
> Associate Research Scientist
> Manager, Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource<http://hiccc.columbia.edu/research/sharedresources/confocal>
>
> Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
> Columbia University Medical Center
> 1130 St. Nicholas Ave., Room 222A
> New York, NY 10032
> Phone: 212-851-4613
> [hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>
>
>
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To get an iLab account to use the microscopy core, users must agree to three policy documents.

Scroll down to "You should be prompted to read and sign policies. If you do not see this, here are the instructions:" at
http://microscopynotes.com/ilabnyu/index.html 

This is my favorite line:  " If a publication including data generated here fails to acknowledge the microscopy laboratory, the remedy will be having the journal issue an official addendum, erratum, correction, amendment, or its version of such which is Pubmed registered."  Curious if we will ever try to invoke it.

I also wrote this, "If you have a problem agreeing to any of the policies, please contact DART leadership to discuss or EH&S for the third point," because I am so exhausted by users who want to discuss the gloves policy.  


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From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Andreas Bruckbauer
Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 1:25 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: Core facility user agreements


We are running PPMS from stratocore as a booking system, the policies are presented as documents to the users once before they can book a microscope and are available for reference later. The system records who has agreed to the policies and the facility manager can present new documents to the user at any time. We also have a separate mailing list for all users and PIs and can email all users of a certain microscope through the booking system. But the most effective way is to speak to the user directly...

Best wishes

Andreas

Sent from my phone

> On 9 May 2018, at 16:28, Swayne, Theresa C. <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I’d greatly appreciate any input from core facility directors/managers/staff.  How do you inform users about basic core policies – such as lab safety, food/drink, cancellation policies, acknowledgements?
>
> If you have an online or paper agreement that users must sign, does it help with compliance?
>
> For core facility users, how would you prefer to be informed about core policies?
>
> My main goals are
>
>  1.  to provide more explicit expectations and consequences, mostly aimed at those few inconsiderate users who don’t respond to repeated verbal reminders; and
>  2.  to increase our rate of acknowledgement in published papers.
>
> Many thanks!
> Theresa
>
> ------------------------------------
> Theresa Swayne, Ph.D.
> Associate Research Scientist
> Manager, Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__hiccc.columbia.edu_research_sharedresources_confocal&d=DwIFaQ&c=j5oPpO0eBH1iio48DtsedbOBGmuw5jHLjgvtN2r4ehE&r=oU_05LztNstAydlbm5L5GDu_vAdjXk3frDLx_CqKkuo&m=kjY3wUSHTavnvyJ9nmO7RAqcvBecbftN6RUS7vyCbFA&s=7eByW5v7En5nq5GURd4hMbOElQuVi_HcY0rJShdxDy4&e=>
>
> Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
> Columbia University Medical Center
> 1130 St. Nicholas Ave., Room 222A
> New York, NY 10032
> Phone: 212-851-4613
> [hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>
>
>

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Dear Theresa

On our website (https://ki.se/en/bionut/welcome-to-the-lci-facility) under using the facility/ul guidelines, you will find our guidelines that all users and their PIs must sign.

Above that you'll get laser safety advice.

When it comes to acknowledgements in articles, we have a system that runs quite smoothly: every 6 months we sent to all users and their PIs an email with the full list of papers produced with data acquired or analysed at our facility, organized per year.

We explain to them that we need their acknowledgment to get money, where to get the official acknowledgement text and ask them to check if their latest paper is on the list.

It is very fast for them to do this and they normal remember what they have published in the last 6 months. They are normally eager to tell us about their last paper if we do not have it. It also reminds the PIs regularly that they need to acknowledge us and where to get the latest text. Students and postdocs tend to forget.

Hope that helps :-)

Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards

Sylvie

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Live Cell Imaging Facility Manager

Karolinska Institutet- Bionut
Hälsovägen 7C,
Room 7362/7840
14157 Huddinge, Sweden
mobile: +46 (0) 73 733 5008
LCI website
Follow our microscopy blog!

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I’d greatly appreciate any input from core facility directors/managers/staff.  How do you inform users about basic core policies – such as lab safety, food/drink, cancellation policies, acknowledgements?

If you have an online or paper agreement that users must sign, does it help with compliance?

For core facility users, how would you prefer to be informed about core policies?

My main goals are

  1.  to provide more explicit expectations and consequences, mostly aimed at those few inconsiderate users who don’t respond to repeated verbal reminders; and
  2.  to increase our rate of acknowledgement in published papers.

Many thanks!
Theresa

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Theresa Swayne, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
Manager, Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource<http://hiccc.columbia.edu/research/sharedresources/confocal>

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University Medical Center
1130 St. Nicholas Ave., Room 222A
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-851-4613
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---- Original Message ----
Subject: Re: Core facility user agreements
Sent: 11 May 2018 7:09 a.m.
From: Sylvie Le Guyader <[hidden email]>
To: "Cammer, Michael" <[hidden email]>
Cc:

Hi Michael

It does happen but rarely. Maybe 1 paper per year or so. When it happens we complain to the PI and the user and remind them that this is mandatory and that they have signed of guidelines.

It is always because they forget so the bi-yearly email to users and PIs goes a very long way in solving that.

Only once we heard of a paper with our data but no acknowledgement where the user has ' helped a friend ' to acquire data but he did not think that he ought to be listed as an author so we did not get acknowledged either.

I told him off and said that for his own sake he should have been listed as an author with a proper description of his contribution. And of course we reminded him that all papers must acknowledge us, friend or not.

This system runs very smoothly because there is very little hassle for everyone.

It also helps users realize that help goes both ways and that we sometimes need them. So when we need to know who uses patient samples for a grant proposal or if we send a satisfaction survey, we get a good response rate.

Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards

Sylvie

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Live Cell Imaging Facility Manager

Karolinska Institutet- Bionut
Hälsovägen 7C,
Room 7362/7840
14157<tel:14157> Huddinge, Sweden
mobile: +46 (0) 73 733 5008<tel:+46%20(0)%2073%20733%205008>
LCI website
Follow our microscopy blog!

---- Cammer, Michael wrote ----



And then when you do a thorough lit search, you find that you've missed how many?  Three maybe?


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NYU Langone Health, 540 First Avenue, SK2 Microscopy Suite, New York, NY  10016

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Dear Theresa

On our website (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__ki.se_en_bionut_welcome-2Dto-2Dthe-2Dlci-2Dfacility&d=DwIF-g&c=j5oPpO0eBH1iio48DtsedbOBGmuw5jHLjgvtN2r4ehE&r=oU_05LztNstAydlbm5L5GDu_vAdjXk3frDLx_CqKkuo&m=LNtxsGXZYuQwYaqw0MC9H_pdaO3bI6hlulxxDR89Uwk&s=-Q57EqizOGjD5LLRN7zvyGhzjMEp8LJK81rV6lTUN-c&e=) under using the facility/ul guidelines, you will find our guidelines that all users and their PIs must sign.

Above that you'll get laser safety advice.

When it comes to acknowledgements in articles, we have a system that runs quite smoothly: every 6 months we sent to all users and their PIs an email with the full list of papers produced with data acquired or analysed at our facility, organized per year.

We explain to them that we need their acknowledgment to get money, where to get the official acknowledgement text and ask them to check if their latest paper is on the list.

It is very fast for them to do this and they normal remember what they have published in the last 6 months. They are normally eager to tell us about their last paper if we do not have it. It also reminds the PIs regularly that they need to acknowledge us and where to get the latest text. Students and postdocs tend to forget.

Hope that helps :-)

Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards

Sylvie

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Sylvie Le Guyader, PhD
Live Cell Imaging Facility Manager

Karolinska Institutet- Bionut
Hälsovägen 7C,
Room 7362/7840
14157 Huddinge, Sweden
mobile: +46 (0) 73 733 5008
LCI website
Follow our microscopy blog!

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I’d greatly appreciate any input from core facility directors/managers/staff.  How do you inform users about basic core policies – such as lab safety, food/drink, cancellation policies, acknowledgements?

If you have an online or paper agreement that users must sign, does it help with compliance?

For core facility users, how would you prefer to be informed about core policies?

My main goals are

  1.  to provide more explicit expectations and consequences, mostly aimed at those few inconsiderate users who don’t respond to repeated verbal reminders; and
  2.  to increase our rate of acknowledgement in published papers.

Many thanks!
Theresa

------------------------------------
Theresa Swayne, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
Manager, Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__hiccc.columbia.edu_research_sharedresources_confocal&d=DwIF-g&c=j5oPpO0eBH1iio48DtsedbOBGmuw5jHLjgvtN2r4ehE&r=oU_05LztNstAydlbm5L5GDu_vAdjXk3frDLx_CqKkuo&m=LNtxsGXZYuQwYaqw0MC9H_pdaO3bI6hlulxxDR89Uwk&s=vVpEwtfyoN-cQMdw6HpuoHNII_Wy-R_TnJItiXgqKt4&e=>

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University Medical Center
1130 St. Nicholas Ave., Room 222A
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-851-4613
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Dear Theresa and dear List,

you can find our facility rules and policy here
<https://owncloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/GLqy09lwhfj5Aje>.

For every new user, at first we read quickly through those rules
together, underlying the key points about usage and safety.
Then, after they have read it carefully on their own, they should send
an email to us, with their PI CCed ,stating that they read and
understood all the contents. Without this email the person can not be
considered a user of the facility and can therefore obtain neither
trainings nor access to any of the instruments.

As Andreas, we do also have mailing lists for all users of a certain
microscope. Those mailing lists are used from facility staff to notify
about instrument issues/updates/downtimes/ etc.. and to give general
warnings (e.g. we found contamination on objectives, etc..). Users use
those mailing lists too to notify each other about last minute changes
to their bookings.

We also ask the users to fill up a comment at the end of their session
stating if everything was OK, or if they had some minor issue (e.g.
software crashed; found the microscope table dirty; etc...). Even though
not every user leave a feedback behind, this system is helping us a lot
to keep track of messy users and to prevent damage.

Cheers,
Aurora


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> I’d greatly appreciate any input from core facility directors/managers/staff.  How do you inform users about basic core policies – such as lab safety, food/drink, cancellation policies, acknowledgements?
>
> If you have an online or paper agreement that users must sign, does it help with compliance?
>
> For core facility users, how would you prefer to be informed about core policies?
>
> My main goals are
>
>    1.  to provide more explicit expectations and consequences, mostly aimed at those few inconsiderate users who don’t respond to repeated verbal reminders; and
>    2.  to increase our rate of acknowledgement in published papers.
>
> Many thanks!
> Theresa
>
> ------------------------------------
> Theresa Swayne, Ph.D.
> Associate Research Scientist
> Manager, Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource<http://hiccc.columbia.edu/research/sharedresources/confocal>
>
> Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
> Columbia University Medical Center
> 1130 St. Nicholas Ave., Room 222A
> New York, NY 10032
> Phone: 212-851-4613
> [hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>
>
>
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A belated thank you to Andreas, Michael, Aurora, Joshua, Nuno, Lee, and Sylvie for responding to my question last week about core facility user policies.

As I see it, the consensus is for written policies to cover:

  *   Safety and cleanliness
  *   Reservations and cancellation
  *   Training and access
  *   Appropriate acknowledgement of core contributions.


Many cores require users to explicitly sign off on the policies; everyone posts them on the website and discusses them with new users in person.

As for encouraging acknowledgements and keeping track of papers, Sylvie Le Guyader suggested emailing users and PIs periodically with a list of all papers that used core equipment, and asking them to check if their latest work is on the list.  I like this because it provides a positive model, and also because it incidentally highlights the core’s contribution to the research community.  I currently search PubMed each week against a list of core users, and do my best to locate missed acknowledgements; but I’m hoping that Sylvie’s method will be more efficient and encourage our users to be more proactive.

Thanks, all, and happy imaging!

Theresa



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Theresa Swayne, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
Manager, Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource<http://hiccc.columbia.edu/research/sharedresources/confocal>

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University Medical Center
1130 St. Nicholas Ave., Room 222A
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-851-4613
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Dear Theresa

On our website (https://ki.se/en/bionut/welcome-to-the-lci-facility) under using the facility/ul guidelines, you will find our guidelines that all users and their PIs must sign.

Above that you'll get laser safety advice.

When it comes to acknowledgements in articles, we have a system that runs quite smoothly: every 6 months we sent to all users and their PIs an email with the full list of papers produced with data acquired or analysed at our facility, organized per year.

We explain to them that we need their acknowledgment to get money, where to get the official acknowledgement text and ask them to check if their latest paper is on the list.

It is very fast for them to do this and they normal remember what they have published in the last 6 months. They are normally eager to tell us about their last paper if we do not have it. It also reminds the PIs regularly that they need to acknowledge us and where to get the latest text. Students and postdocs tend to forget.

Hope that helps :-)

Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards

Sylvie

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Sylvie Le Guyader, PhD
Live Cell Imaging Facility Manager

Karolinska Institutet- Bionut
Hälsovägen 7C,
Room 7362/7840
14157 Huddinge, Sweden
mobile: +46 (0) 73 733 5008
LCI website
Follow our microscopy blog!

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I’d greatly appreciate any input from core facility directors/managers/staff.  How do you inform users about basic core policies – such as lab safety, food/drink, cancellation policies, acknowledgements?

If you have an online or paper agreement that users must sign, does it help with compliance?

For core facility users, how would you prefer to be informed about core policies?

My main goals are

  1.  to provide more explicit expectations and consequences, mostly aimed at those few inconsiderate users who don’t respond to repeated verbal reminders; and
  2.  to increase our rate of acknowledgement in published papers.

Many thanks!
Theresa

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Theresa Swayne, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
Manager, Confocal and Specialized Microscopy Shared Resource<http://hiccc.columbia.edu/research/sharedresources/confocal>

Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University Medical Center
1130 St. Nicholas Ave., Room 222A
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-851-4613
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