Resources

The responsible conduct of research covers many areas. NIH guidance presents eleven topics which serve as a useful framework for organizing discussions around research integrity:

1. Conflict of interest – personal, professional, and financial – and conflict of commitment, in allocating time, effort, or other research resources.
2. Policies regarding human subjects, live vertebrate animal subjects in research, and safe laboratory practices.
3. Mentor/mentee responsibilities and relationships.
4. Safe research environments (e.g., those that promote inclusion and are free of sexual, racial, ethnic, disability and other forms of discriminatory harassment).
5. Collaborative research, including collaborations with industry and investigators and institutions in other countries.
6. Peer review, including the responsibility for maintaining confidentiality and security in peer review.
7. Data acquisition and analysis; laboratory tools (e.g., tools for analyzing data and creating or working with digital images); record keeping practices, including methods such as electronic laboratory notebooks.
8. Secure and ethical data use; data confidentiality, management, sharing, and ownership.
9. Research misconduct and policies for handling misconduct.
10. Responsible authorship and publication.
11. The scientist as a responsible member of society.

Presentation materials to assist in leading discussions around the responsible conduct of research:

• Research Integrity Best Practices
• Mentoring and Supervision
• Peer Review
• Data integrity
• Research Misconduct
• Authorship and Communication