Credit Where Credit Is Due Respecting Authorship and Intellectual Property ACS Symposium Series

This volume is based on the symposium, "The Write Thing to Do: Ethical Considerations in Authorship & the Assignment of Credit," held at the 253rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in 2017. Both editors, serving on the ACS Committee on Ethics, felt that there was a need for more focused, in-depth resources on critical ethical issues, such as assignment of credit. Patricia Ann Mabrouk and Judith Currano then set a goal to develop a robust resource that explores the central issues from a variety of perspectives within the greater chemical community of practice encouraging a healthy discussion of the key issues related to assignment of credit including authorship, contributor-ship, inventorship, and copyright.

Patricia Ann Mabrouk (PAM) is Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at Northeastern University (NU). PAM received her A.B. in chemistry and mathematics from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she studied with Mark S. Wrighton. She received an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship and studied with Edward Ira Solomon before joining the NU faculty in 1990. Over the years, PAM's research interests have included green polymer chemistry, biomolecular recognition in heme proteins, supercritical fluid electrochemistry, educational research on the efficacy of research ethics training, development of models for graduate student mentoring, problem-based learning, undergraduate research, research ethics, reflective journaling and graduate education. PAM is an ACS Fellow, a CASE Massachusetts Professor of the Year, and an NSF CAREER awardee. Over the past twenty-seven years PAM has published over fifty peer-reviewed publications, obtained one U.S. patent, authored two books, served as Editor for an ACS Symposium Series volume on active learning, and organized or co-organized six symposia at ACS National Meetings since 2000. She is very active in ACS and CUR and has served in various capacities at the local and national levels. She is currently a member of the ACS Ethics Committee. Judith N. Currano is the Head of the Chemistry Library at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches a graduate course in chemical information. She received her B.A. in chemistry and English from the University of Rochester, and she earned an M.S. in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests lie in three areas of chemical information education: training chemists to navigate the literature, introducing basic chemical principles to librarians, and teaching substructure search techniques. Judith received the Special Library Association's (SLA) 2016 Rose L. Vormelker Awar