Minimum requirements – Transcript

This is a transcript of the video "Minimum requirements", hosted on YouTube.

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[Caption] Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia.

[Caption] "What are the requirements for naming authors on my Higher Degree Research publications?"

[Prof. Ginny Barbour, Research Skills Coordinator at QUT] Yeah so look the first thing to say is it's incredibly common to have questions about authorship. It's probably the most common thing that students will ask.

It depends on the your specialty where you go on the paper, whether you go where your supervisor on it, but generally as the student you would go first.

But, so what we say to people is you should talk to your supervisor early, anyone else who's involved in the research project come to a decision about what the authorship should be and then make sure that's written down in an email that you all got access to.

QUT has a policy on authorship and that's the same policy as the Australian code for the responsible conduct of research and both of those are available on our website.

There are also staff and students who you can speak to here about the policies.

[Instructional screencast]

[Ginny] The first place to go to find information on authorship is the AIRS module itself, that's Module 10.

What you'll find on there is some of the things that I talked about a little bit earlier and in particular it will talk about things such as the minimum requirement for authorship, the Australian code for the responsible conduct of research that this is based on and that includes being involved in the concept of design of a project, analysis interpretation, and drafting significant proportions.

It also gives you advice on author order but as I said the bottom line is you need to go and talk to your supervisor and come to an agreement about it.

There is also information on here about author identifiers, and we strongly encourage students to get an author identifier, you'll need it throughout your research career.

The other place that you can go to look is on our ethics and integrity website and that's what that looks like this.

There's a lot of information on here both for staff and students and some of this information is slightly different depending on whether your staff or student, but the principles are obviously the same.

If I click through to the page about authorship what you can see right here is that there are types of information on who should be an author, what your responsibilities for being an author are, and that's a really important thing to think about when you're on a paper, how to make authorship agreements, what happens when you've go multiple papers that your submitting, and of course links to further information.

So if you're not able find any information, as I said, talk to your supervisor, talk to the library, talk to the Office of Research Ethics and they will be more than happy to help.

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