Resources to foster research integrity

Topics

• General guidelines and codes 
• Reports
• Advice on how to prevent and address allegations of breaches of research integrity
• Guidelines on authorship issues
• Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs)
• Data management
• Mentoring
• Research involving animals
• Relevant articles

General guidelines and codes 

• Code of Ethics for Researchers, World Economic Forum Young Scientists, 2018 http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Code_of_Ethics.pdf
• The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, ALLEA, 2017 http://www.allea.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ALLEA-European-Code-of-Conduct-for-Research-Integrity-2017.pdf
• Doing Global Science – A Guide to Responsible Conduct in the Global Research Enterprise, InterAcademy Partnership, 2016 http://www.interacademycouncil.net/24026/29429.aspx
• Singapore Statement on Research Integrity, 2010 http://www.singaporestatement.org/statement.html

Reports

• UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology POSTnote on Research Integrity, January 2017
  http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/POST-PN-0544/POST-PN-0544.pdf

Advice on how to prevent and address allegations of breaches of research integrity

• National Academy of Sciences, Fostering Integrity in Research, 2017 (free as PDF)
  https://www.nap.edu/catalog/21896/fostering-integrity-in-research
• Best Practices for Ensuring Scientific Integrity and Preventing Misconduct, OECD, 2007
  https://www.oecd.org/sti/sci-tech/40188303.pdf
• Investigating Research Misconduct Allegations in International Collaborative Research Projects, OECD, 2009
  http://www.oecd.org/sti/sci-tech/42770261.pdf
• European Network of Research Integrity Officers
  http://www.enrio.eu

Guidelines on authorship issues

• Defining the Role of Authors and Contributors, International Committee of Medical Journals Editors ICMJE
  http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html
• How to Handle Authorship Disputes: A Guide for New Researchers, COPE, 2003
  https://publicationethics.org/files/2003pdf12_0.pdf

Electronic lab notebooks (ELNs)

• N Argento, Institutional ELN/LIMS deployment, EMBO Reports, e49862 (2020)
• R Kwok, How to pick an electronic laboratory notebook, Nature, 560, 269-270 (2018)
  
• A review of some electronic lab notebooks (please read the disclaimer at the bottom of the page too):
  https://splice-bio.com/the-7-best-electronic-lab-notebooks-eln-for-your-research/
• S. Kanza et al.Electronic lab notebooks: can they replace paper? , Journal of Cheminformatics, (2017) 9:31
• Dirnagl U and Przesdzing I, A pocket guide to ELNs in the academic life sciences, F1000Res 5:2 (2016)

Data management

• DMPonline helps you to create, review, and share data management plans that meet institutional and funder requirements. It is provided by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC).
• Re3data a registry of data repositories across all disciplines

Mentoring

• Entering Mentoring – A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists
  http://www.hhmi.org/sites/default/files/Educational%20Materials/Lab%20Management/entering_mentoring.pdf
• Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend – On being a mentor to students in science and engineering, National Academy of Sciences, 1997 (free as PDF)
  https://www.nap.edu/read/5789/chapter/1
• Resources for Research Ethics and Education (RREE) – Mentoring
  http://research-ethics.net/topics/mentoring

Research involving animals

• AAALAC Reference Resources
  https://www.aaalac.org/accreditation/resources.cfm
• ARRIVE Guidelines – Reporting of In Vivo Experiments
  https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Guidelines/NC3Rs%20ARRIVE%20Guidelines%202013.pdf
• EC Directive on the Protection of Animals used for Scientific Purposes
  http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/legislation_en.htm
• The 3Rs
  http://3rs.ccac.ca/en/about/three-rs.html
• Animal welfare 
  http://3rs.ccac.ca/en/about/animal-welfare.html

Relevant articles 

• D S Kornfeld, S L Tituts, Stop ignoring misconduct, Nature, Vol. 537, Issue 7618, August 2016
  http://www.nature.com/news/stop-ignoring-misconduct-1.20498
• M Baker, Problematic images found in 4% of biomedical papers, Nature News, April 2016
  http://www.nature.com/news/problematic-images-found-in-4-of-biomedical-papers-1.19802
• B Pulverer, When things go wrong: correcting the scientific record, EMBOJ, October 2015
  http://emboj.embopress.org/content/34/20/2483
• A McCook, Why do scientists commit misconduct?, Retraction Watch, August 2016
  http://retractionwatch.com/2016/08/29/why-do-scientists-commit-misconduct/#comment-1102955