21 Acknowledgements
Who
The Mavs Open Press team will remove the UTA CARES Grant Program description from any OER not funded by the program. We will also include information about the book’s cover in this section and list library staff who supported the book’s creation.
The author and project team are responsible for adding and updating all other acknowledgements.
How
Most acknowledgments are presented in the following format: Name – Title, Institution (e.g., Michelle Reed – Director of Open Educational Resources, University of Texas at Arlington)
- Add personal acknowledgements in Author’s Note section
- Include the project lead’s name, title, and institution in Lead Author section (alternate headings, such as “Lead Editor” or “Project Manager” can be used instead)
- Acknowledge co-authors and other contributors by including their names, titles, and institutions in the Contributing Authors section
- Acknowledge editors by including their names, titles, and institutions in the Editors section
- Acknowledge reviewers by including their names, titles, and institutions in the Reviewers section
- Include additional acknowledgements as necessary in the Additional Thanks To section
- Delete any placeholders that are not relevant
Example
The example below is from Human Anatomy Lab Manual.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
I would like to dedicate this section to all my undergraduate teaching assistants, past and present. Every semester, I pick the most gifted students from previous semesters to serve as teaching assistants. I appreciate your commitment, passion, and hard work, but most of all, the amazing times we have had together. Special thanks to Clint Hassell and Natalie Winter who have served as my teaching assistants for many semesters, and have been good friends ever since. You have always done more than what was expected, and have given so much of your time and effort to support students to really grow and surprise us.
LEAD AUTHOR AND EDITOR
Malgosia Wilk-Blaszczak, M.D., Ph.D. – Professor of Instruction, University of Texas at Arlington
CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
Kevin A. Alford, B.S. – University of Texas at Arlington alumnus
Andrea Campo-Velez, B.S. – University of Texas at Arlington alumna
Victoria Dorch, B.S. – University of Texas at Arlington alumna
EDITOR
Kevin A. Alford, B.S. – University of Texas at Arlington alumnus
ILLUSTRATORS
Andrea Campo-Velez, B.S. – University of Texas at Arlington alumna
Victoria Dorch, B.S. – University of Texas at Arlington alumna
ADDITIONAL THANKS TO…
Michelle Reed and Thomas Perappadan of UTA Libraries for assisting in the publication of this resource.
Jodi Wiley, B.S, UTA alumna, for creating and formatting class handouts that became the foundation for this OER.
Bradford Dimos, UTA graduate student, and Collin Funkhouser, UTA alumnus, for class-testing the previous version of this resource.
ABOUT THE COVER
Kyle Pinkos, UTA Libraries’ Marketing Coordinator, designed the cover for this OER. The images used are in the public domain. Featured images, from Ontleding Des Menschelyken Lichaams by Govard Bidloo, are available from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.