LibGuides: Northwell/SOM_Getting Published: Author Rights & Responsibilities

Northwell Health Author Policy

Northwell Health has instituted the Authorship on Scientific and Scholarly Publications Policy, Policy No. 100.057.

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It has a number of key provisions that must be followed for your poster presentations, especially if they are off-site and outside the healthcare system, including:

Northwell Health does not allow honorarium author listings. If someone was not actively involved in the creation of the work, they should not be listed.
The author who is presenting the work, or the author who was primarily responsible for the writing and editing if not being presented, should be listed first.
Every author must identify themselves as affiliated with Northwell Health and/or the Zucker School of Medicine. Consult the author policy to find your appropriate affiliation designation.
No one listed as an author on the poster should be there without having read and approved the content, before it is submitted. It is unprofessional to include authors without their knowledge or consent.

Click here to learn more about the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors' (ICMJE) definitions of the Author and Contributor roles.

Scroll down to learn more about your rights and responsibilities as an Author:

Author Responsibility: Avoid Questionable Research Practices

As an author, you have a responsibility to the scientific community to avoid using Questionable Research Practices (#QRPs). Always hold your research and writing, and yourself and your co-authors, to the highest ethical standards.

Credit for photo to @mededdoc. March 23, 2021. Accessed Nov. 23, 2021. https://twitter.com/mededdoc/status/1374339568720351236

Read more in this article: Artino, A. R. Jr PhD; Driessen, E.W. PhD; Maggio, L. A. PhD. Ethical Shades of Gray: International Frequency of Scientific Misconduct and Questionable Research Practices in Health Professions Education. Acad. Med. 2019;94(1):76-84. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002412.

Key Provision in the Author Contract: CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE

Authors should pay careful attention to a journal's disclosure requirements and meet all their responsibilities for providing information about conflicts of interest they may have. You should absolutely double check with the journal's particular requirements for disclosure before submitting your work. If you do not have a journal in mind yet, in order to learn more about your rights and responsibilities, click here to visit the ICMJE's information page on disclosure of financial and non-financial relationships and activities, and conflicts of interest.

Your Rights & Responsibilities as an Author

Northwell Health follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors' Recommendations for Author Rights and Responsibilities.

Learn more about your rights as a published author, and your responsibilities to the journal or conference where your work is presented and to the scientific community, by clicking here. You'll find listed the Responsibilities in the Submission and Peer-Review Process for Authors, Journals, and Peer Reviewers.

Key Provision in the Author Contract: COPYRIGHT

In today’s digital world, the right to disseminate & reuse the work is almost as important as the content itself.

One key provision in any author contract with a journal or conference publisher is COPYRIGHT. The publisher's rights to your work, and your own rights to your work, should be clearly laid out in the contract you sign. Some of the rights you'll want to make sure you protect are:

Present the work at conference or meeting and give copies of the work to attendees
Self-archive the work in an institutional repository
Comply with public access mandates
Deposit the work in an institutional or subject repository, such as the ZSOM/Northwell Repository and/or PubMed Central
Place a copy of the work on electronic reserves or use for student course-packs
Make an oral presentation of the work
Expand the work into a book form or book chapter
Retain patent and trademark rights of processes or procedures contained in the work

Click here to learn more at the ZSOM/Northwell Copyright Resources LibGuide.

Click here to visit Sherpa-Romeo and find the publisher's contract terms
Not sure of the publisher's terms? Check Sherpa Romeo, an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies and provides summaries of publisher copyright and open access archiving policies.
Click here to learn more about the The SPARC Author Addendum
Not sure your rights are protected? Use the SPARC Author Addendum, a legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles. The Author Addendum is a free resource developed by SPARC in partnership with Creative Commons and Science Commons.
Click here to view our ZSOM/Northwell Academic Repository
The Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine Academic Works is a digital repository for gathering and showcasing the scholarly output of the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and Northwell Health. The Academic Works repository is a service provided by the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Library.
Click here to learn more about PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). Any work that is the result of federal funding must have the full-text of the manuscript published within this repository.

Northwell/SOM_Getting Published: Author Rights & Responsibilities

Northwell Health Author Policy

Author Responsibility: Avoid Questionable Research Practices

Key Provision in the Author Contract: CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURE

Your Rights & Responsibilities as an Author

Key Provision in the Author Contract: COPYRIGHT

Key Provision in the Author Contract: RESEARCH PARTICIPANT AND PATIENT CONSENT