Research IT

Acknowledgement

Research IT contributions to research outputs such as papers should be acknowledged wherever possible. Depending on the resources used please select the most appropriate acknowledgement below.


If your paper etc benefited from the input or expertise of a member of the Research Software Engineer Team and they are not a named author, please use the following acknowledgement:

"The support of [insert name of RSE here] from Research IT at The University of Manchester is gratefully acknowledged"

If your paper etc benefited from the use of one of the computational services from the Research Platforms team please use the following acknowledgement:

"The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance given by Research IT and the use of the [insert name of facility here] at The University of Manchester."

Please select from one of the services below:

  • HPC Pool
  • Computational Shared Facility
  • Condor Pool
  • Cloud provision
  • Research VM Platform

If your research benefited from the use of external service please see their individual websites for more information:

If you use, or plan to use, any of our services we encourage you to acknowledge that usage through your Pure account wherever possible.

The services we provide are now available within Pure to be tagged to any of your Pure records. This could include publications, research datasets, research activities or any of your records.

Tagging us helps us to raise the profile of the services provided by Research IT , helps to demonstrate how our services can be used and can help to encourage wider usage of our facilities.

To acknowledge Research IT on any of your Pure records –

  • Log into Pure (pure.manchester.ac.uk) and navigate to the record you wish to tag.
  • Click to open the record.
  • Scroll down to the section with the heading ‘Relations’.
  • Click on the button marked Facilities/Equipment
  • Search for the service you used or, alternatively, press spacebar to see a list of possible services.
  • Select the Research IT service you wish to attribute.
  • Click the blue Save button.