Referencing SSRL & Funding Sources
User publications are extremely important in demonstrating the scientific impact of SSRL. Proposal teams must inform and acknowledge SSRL and the DOE Office of Science in presentations and publications.
Reporting & Acknowledgement Requirements
SSRL provides technical tools for world-leading science at no charge for scientists who conduct non-proprietary research, with the understanding that significant results are to be publicly disseminated. Scientists must acknowledge use of the facility in presentations and publications and must inform the facility of all publications, theses, awards, patents and other forms of recognition resulting from research conducted fully or partially at SSRL. These metrics of scientific achievements and productivity are extremely important to the facility and to funding agencies. Please contact us as results are about to be published so that we can work with you to more broadly communicate your research. With your help, we can maintain and report up-to-date listings to the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Communicating research results with us in advance allows us to work with users, their home institutions and funding agencies to promote the latest SSRL science and to amplify media efforts through press releases and features. Please review the SSRL communications policies.
The SSRL Structural Molecular Biology (SMB) program is partly NIH supported. Therefore, compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy is required for publications that use the SSRL SMB facilities (macromolecular crystallography, biological SAXS, biological XAS). SMB users are therefore requested to follow the information on the NIH Public Access website and submit papers to PubMed Central.
Additionally, as members of the SLAC community, SSRL staff scientists have the responsibility for ensuring that any manuscript based on research conducted at SLAC which has been (or will be) submitted for publication outside of SLAC is also published as a SLAC Publication. SciDoc is available to help authors meet reporting requirements.
General Purpose
Use of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515.
Macromolecular Crystallography, X-ray Spectroscopy and Biological Small-angle X-ray Scattering
(Including Absorption, Emission, MicroXAS Imaging, and when applied to Biochemistry, Bioinorganic, Biomedical, and Biology)
Use of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515. The SSRL Structural Molecular Biology Program is supported by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research, and by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P30GM133894). The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIGMS or NIH.
COVID-19 Experiments
Publications arising from COVID-19 related experiments and that were enabled by the CARES Act funding, should acknowledge the NVBL, in addition the usual SSRL contract acknowledgement:
Research was supported by the DOE Office of Science through the National Virtual Biotechnology Laboratory, a consortium of DOE national laboratories focused on response to COVID-19, with funding provided by the Coronavirus CARES Act.
Submit New Publications
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