Beyond authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit.

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Title:	Beyond authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit.
Authors:	Brand, Amy, Allen, Liz, Altman, Micah, Hlava, Marjorie, Scott, Jo
Source:	Learned Publishing. Apr2015, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p151-155. 5p. 1 Chart.
Subjects:	Scholarly publishing, Metadatabases, Authorship periodicals, Exchange of publications, Harvard University
Abstract:	The article discusses a need for a better system to represent collaborative contribution to published works and notes the lack of coordination among contributorship efforts in the scholarly publishing community. Topics discussed include the need for a controlled vocabulary of contributor roles and mechanisms to capture contribution tags within scholarly metadata ecosystem and a workshop held at Harvard University to explore the topic of authorship with representatives from the publishing world.
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Abstract:	The article discusses a need for a better system to represent collaborative contribution to published works and notes the lack of coordination among contributorship efforts in the scholarly publishing community. Topics discussed include the need for a controlled vocabulary of contributor roles and mechanisms to capture contribution tags within scholarly metadata ecosystem and a workshop held at Harvard University to explore the topic of authorship with representatives from the publishing world.
ISSN:	09531513
DOI:	10.1087/20150211