Acknowledging the Centre
Work performed by the Centre and its staff should be acknowledged in publications, presentations, posters and reports. All saliva testing services provided by the Salivary Bioscience Research Centre are subsidised by UNSW Network lab funding. Acknowledgment is a measure of the impact that our Centre has and ensures continuation of this funding.
There are two important reasons why you should acknowledge the contribution of the Centre and/or its staff in the acknowledgments/methods section of publications or by co-authorship:
1. Our professional staff are scientists. When we make a substantial intellectual and/or experimental contribution to a study leading to a publication, just like any other collaborator we should be considered as co-authors. It also helps professional staff to advance in their careers and feel valued for their contribution.
2. Continued grant funding to our Centre and hence access to subsidised services, depends in part on acknowledgment of our work in publications. This is an important metric of the value of our Centre. Full acknowledgment enables us to obtain financial and other support so that we may continue to provide these essential services.
Required Acknowledgement
In publications, we would appreciate if the “Salivary Bioscience Research Centre (UNSW Sydney, Australia)” was documented as the service provider in the materials and methods section of the publication or poster. In presentations we would appreciate the inclusion of our logo in any acknowledgement slide. A copy of our logo can be downloaded in rectangular or square format depending on the space available.
The following wording is recommended by the SBRC: “Salivary testing for this work was carried out at UNSW Salivary Bioscience Research Centre (SBRC) and was supported in part by funding received from the UNSW Research Infrastructure Scheme (RIS), an initiative administered by the PVC (Research Infrastructure) as part of the UNSW 2025 Strategy".
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