A quick tidbit for you...
I must have papers and writing on the brain. Here's something I learned a few months back, that I may not have passed along.
Whenever a paper is published in "The Physical Review" or "Physical Review Letters" or what have you (the big one for particle physics is "Physical Review D" I believe), the copyrights are signed over to the publisher for the duration. Thus it may seem like a good idea to use the same boilerplate descriptions of things in two papers with different topics, but in reality you are committing plagarism, even though you wrote it.
And now you know.