Terms and Conditions
The following terms and conditions apply for using EMSL resources.
Additional Information
- User Portal
- 2013 Call for Proposals
- DOE-JGI Joint Call (invited only) Proposal Guidance
- 2013 Proposal Guidance
- 2013 Proposal Review Criteria
- 2013 Proposal Planning
- 2013 Proposal Summary/Extension
- Previous Calls
- External Peer Reviewers
- Fellowships and Awards
Nonproprietary users (i.e., users who perform open research and will fully disclose information and results to the public) must:
- Confirm that a Non-Proprietary User Agreement (NPUA) has been accepted by the user institution and approved by EMSL. A fully approved NPUA is required by all participants prior to accessing (onsite or remotely) EMSL resources.
- Acknowledge the requirements, obligations and responsibilities that each user must follow to access EMSL resources by completing the electronic Acknowledgment Form on the User Portal.
- In particular, users must:
- Be cognizant of and abide by EMSL standard practices and procedures. EMSL establishes and communicates safe laboratory practices and training requirements via PNNL's Integrated Operations System (IOPS). Users with access to EMSL workspaces must be registered in IOPS prior to entering workspaces unescorted or conducting any work.
- Do not ship equipment, samples or chemicals to EMSL/PNNL without first consulting with your host or the User Support Office.
- Comply with the Legal Notice requirements specified in the User Agreement for each report or publication arising from work conducted under the User Agreement. This includes Acknowledging EMSL in any publications, including but not limited to journal articles, presentations, reports, proceedings, and book chapters, resulting from work performed using EMSL resources.
- Battelle employees at EMSL are often listed as co-authors on articles, presentations, or publications resulting from collaborations with EMSL users. If Battelle employees are listed as co-authors, User must notify and provide the Battelle employee with a copy of the manuscript or presentation prior to publication submission so that the document(s) can be reviewed and processed through the PNNL document clearance system. In no event will User's notice to the Battelle employee be any less than 14 days before public release.
- Provide via the EMSL User Portal copies or reprints of the articles, presentations, or publications.
- Submit via the EMSL User Portal summaries of research results for use in highlights or EMSL's Annual Report.
Intellectual property developed in the course of open research is protected in accordance with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) policies, which in general assign the intellectual property and any resulting commercial benefits to the discoverer.
A limited amount of proprietary research may be conducted in EMSL under a Proprietary User Agreement or other sales contract. Proprietary users (i.e., users who withhold all or part of the information and results from the public) must establish a contract with Battelle, which operates the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for DOE, to reimburse DOE for all incurred costs which include, but are not limited to, labor, equipment usage, consumables, materials, and EMSL staff travel.
Under the terms of the DOE class waiver, users engaged in proprietary research are obligated to pay the full-cost recovery rate for use of the facility. In return, the user has the option to take title to any inventions made during the proprietary research program and to treat as proprietary all technical data generated during research.
