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ESRF Publication Rules

When applying for beamtime at the ESRF, all proposers accept the terms and conditions that include acceptance of the ESRF data policy and agreement with the publication rules as described below. Before using ESRF beamtime, all users electronically validate a further statement (in the User & Safety Declaration form) that they will give proper credit to ESRF staff members and experiment facilities, the beamline(s) in particular, which were essential for the results described in any ensuing publication.

The proposal review panels pay particular attention to the presence and the quality of publications resulting from work carried out at the ESRF. Please remember to update your "My Publications" list in your User Portal account profile, by linking to your ESRF publications registered in the Library database, so that the complete references of your most recent papers appearing in print and based on measurements made at the ESRF will automatically appear in proposals where you are Principal or Co-Investigator.

ESRF publication rules

Scientists awarded public beam time are expected to

Scientists purchasing proprietary research beamtime are not obliged to publish results, but if they do so they must respect the obligations below.

For all publications that use data collected either wholly or partially at the ESRF, either directly by the authors or through the re-use of ESRF open data, you must:

  • Create and cite the minted bespoke DOI(s) for the specific ESRF dataset(s) that were used for the publication. Instructions are available in this video: https://youtu.be/WEoTVa4jLbE. 
     
  • Cite the beamline(s) or instrument(s) on which the data were obtained.
     
  • Cite the ESRF proposal ID(s) under which the data were collected (e.g. LS-1234).
     
  • Acknowledge assistance from ESRF staff.

The data DOI(s) must be cited in the Data Availability section of the publication, and the beamline(s)/instrument(s) and proposal ID(s) cited in the Methods and Materials section.

You must use this sentence, or an appropriately adapted version, in the publication acknowledgements:
"We acknowledge the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) for provision of synchrotron radiation facilities under proposal ID ### and on beamline(s) ###. We thank NAME(s) for assistance and support during the beamtime." 

For experiments carried out on the beamlines that are jointly operated by the ESRF and EMBL Grenoble (ID23-1, ID23-2, ID29, BM29, ID30A-1, ID30A-3, ID30B, and CM01), please acknowledge assistance from ESRF and EMBL Grenoble staff by replacing the last sentence with the following:
"We thank the staff of the ESRF and EMBL Grenoble for assistance and support in using the jointly operated Structural Biology beamline(s)."

You must properly acknowledge ESRF staff as co-authors if they were one of the scientific drivers of the work done, or played a key role in the experiment, e.g. for data measurement, analysis or interpretation of the data, etc, over and above the involvement that would normally be expected from Local Contact support.

Cite the ESRF's address as follows: ESRF, The European Synchrotron, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS40220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.

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