[Nhcoll-l] photo vouchering and tissues questions

Tue May 1 09:43:03 EDT 2018

Hi Kirsten

Here at KU ichthyology we have a number of tissues that have photo vouchers.  We do not have any written policies regarding this but our general policy for collectors is to use photo vouchers only as a last resort.  Obviously a physical voucher is our preference for validation of species ID after the fact but we are also cognizant of the fact that in certain circumstances photo vouchers are necessary e.g. fish market specimens or other scenarios where the specimen cannot be collected or brought back.

In terms of acknowledging collectors in publication, this is not the norm.  In terms of our accession policy, collectors sign over all rights to material they have collected when they sign a Deed of Gift to the Biodiversity Institute once returning as part of accessioning the material into our collections.  A copy of our Deed of Gift policy is attached as is our tissue gift policy that outlines correct citation of material in publication.  I have also attached our tissue collection protocol that addresses vouchers to some degree.

Hope this helps

Andy
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From: Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> On Behalf Of Kirsten Nicholson
Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 8:20 AM
To: NH-COLL listserv (nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu) <NHCOLL-L at mailman.yale.edu>
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] photo vouchering and tissues questions

Our museum is revising its policies and I'm looking for information on two points.

First: can anybody share with me their policies on accepting photos as vouchers for specimens if you do this? I have trolled the web for policies on this, but haven't been able to pull any up. I know that in the realm of herpetology we sometimes publish short notes on geographic range extensions or natural history observations that include photos confirming the species ID (and associated data) in instances where you can't or are unable to capture and or make that specimen a museum voucher. But what are your policies on this?

Second: does anybody make requirements regarding credit attribution to the collector when specimens or tissues are used in publication? I've trolled through tissue policies from several museums, and they are all pretty similar, but did not see this in them and was curious. I know many years ago when museums began establishing genetic tissue collections there were some issues that came up regarding the use of large numbers of tissues collected by someone else and then publishing that data without crediting the collector, who in one case happened to still be very much alive. The counter-argument at the time was likening the tissues to voucher specimens, no one puts Cope or Agassizi as co-authors of their papers even if they used nothing but and only specimens collected by them. I assume most museums' policies state that tissues, like specimens, are donated to the museum and become museum property and all rights to them (unless otherwise negotiated) are relinquished by the collector. Does anybody do anything differently?

Thanks for any thoughts you can share,

Kirsten

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Kirsten E. Nicholson, Ph.D

Prof. of  Biology          and             Curator of Natural History
Dept. of Biology                             Museum of Cultural and Natural History
2104 Biosciences                           103 Rowe Hall
Central Michigan Univ.                 Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859                 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
989-774-3758                                989-774-3829

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