Responsible Research
This section of the OEC contains cases, discussions, guidelines, and regulations bearing on the responsible conduct of research, including both issues of research integrity and issues of the treatment of the research subject.
Research conditions described in the cases, scenarios, and dramatic readings range over a variety of disciplines, from engineering and computer science, the physical and life sciences to medicine.
- Essays on Research Ethics
- Three essays concerning research ethics, authorship status, and issues of trustworthiness.
- Scenarios
- Scenarios, cases, commentary and role plays focusing on problems arising in a variety of research setting (natural science, engineering, psychology and social science, medical school). Some are designed for audiences of students and other trainees. Others are designed for learning by departments or laboratories including research supervisors and technical staff as well as trainees.
- Educational Resources
- Contains materials for courses or educational sequences on the responsible conduct of research that support a series of activities for student-faculty learning. Included here are discussion and interview questions, readings, applicable policies and standards, scenarios that present ethical problems common in research, articles on research misconduct and Web Sites on Research Ethics.
- Addressing Problems in Research Ethics
- Problems submitted by visitors to the OEC and examined by students for their projects (problem situations followed by interviews with knowledgeable people on how best to address those problems). Included here are research, academic, industry, and government scenarios.
- Reference Materials
- A wide range of applicable references including Federal Policy on Research Misconduct, guidelines on responsible publication practices from the American Chemical Society and from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, the Helsinki Declaration, the Nuremberg Code, Web Sites on the Protection of Human Subjects, and Web Sites on the Welfare of Animals Used in Research.