Core facility user agreements

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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
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