Online Resources for Ethics in Scientific Publishing
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General Information
A good place to start: The Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science at Case Western University. Includes collection of codes of conduct from organizations worldwide; helpline for scientists encountering ethical problems in their work; large bibliography of ethics resources; ethical guidelines bearing on diversity in the workplace; and a wide variety of educational resources — http://www.onlineethics.com/codes/index.html
University of Minnesota Graduate School, Teaching Ethics for Research, Scholarship and Practice. Resources for teaching about ethics and a model site for informing students about internal and external ethical practices — http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/
Samples, Advice and How-to
Committee on Publications Ethics, (appropriately, COPE). Biomed focus but range expanding; includes best publication practices; and reports of anonymised cases considered by COPE — http://www.publicationethics.org.uk/
Ethical Guidelines for Publications from American Chemical Society — http://pubs.acs.org/instruct/ethic.html
Guidelines for Professional Conduct from the American Physical Society, including recently added sections on the responsibilities of co?authors and on maintenance of research data.— http://www.aps.org/statements/02.2.cfm
APS Statement on Policies for Handling Allegations of Research Misconduct — http://www.aps.org/statements/02.3.cfm
APS Editorial Office Guidelines for the Investigation of Research Misconduct. Internal guidelines and steps for investigating various types of misconduct related to physics journals — download guidelines pdf
Creating a Code of Ethics for Your Organization: samples, process advice, guidelines — http://www.ethicsweb.ca/codes/
Report from a 2000 AAAS Conference: The Role and Activities of Scientific Societies in Promoting Research Integrity — download report pdf
Helpful Publications
On Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research, Second Edition; Free online version and information on purchase of hard copies — http://www.nap.edu/catalog/4917.html
Sigma Xi ethics publications including: The Responsible Researcher: Paths and Pitfalls, and Honor in Science — http://www.sigmaxi.org/resources/publications/descriptions.shtml#ethics
Science and Engineering Ethics. This ten-year-old quarterly journal publishes special topical issues, book reviews, meeting reports — http://www.opragen.co.uk/
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