There is a general policy at Caltech for the principal investigator to
be the last author. If you have to limit the number of authors why not
just list the first and limit the rest to ones at your institution?
Dana L. Roth
Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32
1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91125
626-395-6423 fax 626-792-7540
dzrlib_at_library.caltech.edu
http://library.caltech.edu/collections/chemistry.htm
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From: American Scientist Open Access Forum
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Behalf Of Wichor Bramer
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:09 AM
To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM_at_LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG
Subject: measuring affiliation
When selecting input for my institution's IR, I encountered many
articles
in our current (non-full text) database, that have over 30 co-authors,
of
which only one is affiliated to our organisation. We will be
administring
centrally, so the decision is mine and my colleagues'.
I'm not too keen to include these in our repository. what's your opinion
on
this? Should only articles where al least the first author is affiliated
to
the institution be entered. Where can we draw a line (if we can). How
much
author affiliation does one need?
Best regards,
Wichor Bramer,
informatiebeheerder
T: 030 274 3962
F: 030 274 4404
E: wichor.bramer_at_rivm.nl
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Received on Fri Aug 11 2006 - 19:44:47 BST