Responsible Conduct of Research
Training and Resource Page

 

Responsible Conduct of Research Workshop for VCU Postdoctorals, Residents and Fellows

 

Readings for Participants in the
VCU Computational Modeling Applications
in Cardiopulmonary Dynamics Program

VCU Policies on Academic and Research Integrity

    Honor System  (Flow chart)
    Misconduct in Research and Scholarly Activities (Flow chart)
    USDHHS Office of Research Integrity

Ownership of Data and Intellectual Property

    VCU Office of Research Policy on Research Data
     VCU Office of Technology Transfer
    VCU Intellectual Properties Policy
    VCU Computer and Network Resources Use Policy
    VCU Digital Millennium Copyright Act Agent
    U.S. Copyright Office
    American Chemical Society Copyright Information
    HHMI: "Making the Right Moves 2nd Edition"

Conflicts and Managing Competing Interests

Federal Policies


    Financial Conflict of Interest—Objectivity in Research (NIH):  Institutional Policy Review
    National Science Foundation:  Conflict of Interest Policy
 

VCU Institutional and Office Policies

   Outside Professional Activity and Employment, Research, and Continuing Education
   VCU Office of Research Conflict of Interest Policy
  
Forms that VCU Faculty Complete

 

   Forms for Approving and Reporting Outside Activities

   VCU Office of Research Conflict of Interest Form

     VCU Office of Research Conflict of Interest Disclosure Supplement Form
               
    VCU School of Medicine Outside Professional Activity Reporting Procedures
 
Scientific Societies and Conflict of Interest
 
     2006 FASEB Report on Conflict of Interest

FASEB Report on Conflict of Interest Conflict of Interest Toolkit

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors

 

General Resources on Record Keeping

University of Florida
 

 

NCSU Policy on Lab Notebook Maintenance
 

Record keeping advice from legal firms that specialize in intellectual property law

 

Mentoring

From the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

HHMI "Making the Right Moves" Chapter 5:  Mentoring and Being Mentored

HHMI Entering Mentoring
Institutional Links

Virginia Commonwealth University
Harvard University
University of Michigan
University of Oregon
National Institutes of Health
http://www1.od.nih.gov/oir/sourcebook/ethic-conduct/mentor-guide.htm#Directory

 

Other Resources

On the Right Track:  A Manual for Research Mentors.  Margaret F. King.
 
 
NSF News   
 

Use of Animals in Biomedical Research

Public Health Service Policy on the Humane Care and use of Laboratory Animals on the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) Web site (October 2000 reprint)

 PHS Policy Tutorial on NIH OLAW Web site
 

Health Research Extension Act of 1985, Public Law 99-158. (Animals in Research) on the NIH OLAW Web site

 

Animal Welfare Act and Regulations

Guide to the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (1996) on the National Academy Press
Web site.

One free copy of the Guide to Care and Use of Laboratory Animals as well as information about foreign language translations is available on the Web site of the National Academy’s Institute for Laboratory Animal Research  (ILAR) 
  

Guidelines for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research was published in 2003 as an expansion of the Guide to Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. This book specifically covers the use of mammals in neuroscience and behavioral experiments.

 Report of the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia (2000) on the AVMA Web site.
 

Authorship

 

VCU Libraries Copyright and Authors Rights

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.  

Committee on Publication Ethics

Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice:  American Statistical Association

Society for Neuroscience Guidelines for Responsible Conduct in Scientific
Communication  

American Chemical Society Guidelines for Authorship Ethics

Publication Practices and Responsible Authorship:  American Psychological Association

Responsible authorship of papers in PNAS  Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, Editor-in-Chief
PNAS | July 20, 2004 | vol. 101 | no. 29 | 10495
 
Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences (2003) National Academies Press, Washington, DC.  2003.    

NIH Data Sharing Policy

Council of Science Editors.

The World Association of Medical Editors
 

Copyright information available from the American Chemical Society
 

The HHS Office of Research Integrity:  Resources on Publication Practices;  e.g., responsible authorship, peer review, literature searching and more.
 

Day R.A. and B. Gastel (2006): How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper. 6th ed., Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.  Considered by many to be the definitive text on paper writing, These authors take the "how to" approach and the entertaining writing style makes the book both enjoyable and instructive. (302 pp.)

 

 

Human Subject Use in Biomedical Experimentation

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 45 Part 46, Protection of Human Subjects    

IRB:  Ethics and Human Research published by the Hastings Center

 National Library of Medicine Bibliography on Human Subject Use   

 The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) of the Department of Health and Human Services 

The impact of  the HIPAA on research

 The U.S. Department of Energy maintains a Web site devoted to protecting human subjects 

 

Collaboration

A National Academy of Science report on sharing data

NIH Data Sharing Policy
 
Dynamic Issues in Scientific Integrity: Collaborative Research. American Academy of Microbiology, Washington, D.C.

Overcoming Barriers to Collaborative Research. Report of a Workshop. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C     

 The Uniform Biological Material Transfer Agreement published in the Federal Register on March 8, 1995

 

Genetic Technology and Scientific Integrity


Gene Therapy Clinical Trials Worldwide

 

U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Program  

 

GeneClinics