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The University Leadership Council
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The University Leadership Council of the Education Advisory Board provides its member provosts with expert advice and innovative strategies and practices—tested and proven to work by their peers at other universities across the country—for tackling their most pressing issues. Provosts benefit from the learning of thousands of other universities facing the same challenges. One report issued by this group in May of 2011 describes how research universities encourage academic research integrity.
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The Ethics Education Library
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The Ethics Education Library (EEL) is a project of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and they have worked closely with the Online Ethics Center. The EEL acts as a kind of clearinghouse of materials on ethics education. This includes pedagogical articles and books, examples of how instructors and institutions have developed methods and programs for teaching ethics, as well as an extensive collection of ethics case studies, readings on the responsible conduct of research, and other supplemental materials.
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UNESCO Ethics of Science and Technology Programme
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Since its involvement in promoting international reflection on the ethics of life sciences in the 1970s, UNESCO continues to build and reinforce linkages among ethicists, scientists, policy-makers and civil society to assist Member States in enacting sound and reasoned policies on ethical issues in science and technology.
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Internet Research Ethics: Digital Library, Resource Center, and Commons
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This webpage provides information related to ethical issues arising from the conduct of research in online environments. The IRE website will also provide expert advice to help researchers negotiate the landscape of IRBs and ethics boards dealing with these complex issues.
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Ethics in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Online Resource Center
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This NSF award to the University of Illinois will be used to develop a national online resource professional and research ethics.
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Ethics Education and Scientific and Engineering Research: What's Been Learned? What Should Be Done? Summary of a Workshop
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The workshop, summarized in this volume, discussed the social environment of science and engineering education; the need for ethics education for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in science and engineering; models for effective programs; and assessment of approaches to ethics education, among other topics.
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Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) at IIT
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The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) at the Illinois Institute of Technology contains numerous useful programs, libraries, and publications that focus on practical and professional ethics.
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The Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse (ESENCe)
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The Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse (ESENCe) Browse section also allows users to search on preset and self-selected terms. ESENCe has particular interest in materials by and for social and behavioral sciences (see http://www.ethicslibrary.org/broadening_ethics.html) and issues of international ethics (see http://www.ethicslibrary.org/international/).
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Clinical Research Ethics - Educational Materials from CTSpedia
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The CTSA Consortium Clinical Research Ethics Key Function Committee's Educational Materials Group has developed this online, searchable database of educational materials for use in RCR education and training. The group was formed to survey CTSA sites on their current practices in teaching the Responsible Conduct of Research, to ascertain what needs the sites have and catalog the approaches that are being taken in order identify those best practices. The database is a collection of those materials.
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NSF’s Office of International Science and Engineering
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This site provides resources to assist in developing training and oversight plans for the responsible and ethical conduct of research in an international context and to understand the codes of conduct in other countries.
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Office of Research Integrity (ORI)
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The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) promotes integrity in biomedical and behavioral research supported by the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) at about 4,000 institutions worldwide. ORI monitors institutional investigations of research misconduct and facilitates the responsible conduct of research (RCR) through educational, preventive, and regulatory activities.
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Ethics Education for Geospatial Professionals
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The National Science Foundation provided the support to develop and institute graduate seminars at Penn State, Oregon State, and the University of Minnesota that explore ethical implications of geographic information science and technology (GIS&T). Open educational resources designed and produced by a team of professional ethicists and GIS&T educators are available from the Products section of this site.
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Ethics in Science & Engineering: Redefining Tools & Resources
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This report summarizes the main points of discussion of a national workshop convened to advance knowledge and practice for ethics in science and engineering.
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NSF’s Ethics Education in Science and Engineering Program
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This page gives the requirements for funding from NSF in Ethics in Science and Engineering. You can click on the link “What has been funded…” at the bottom of the page to see recent awards.
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The Professional Ethics Report (PER)
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This report is published quarterly by the AAAS and is available online in pdf format. It includes news and information about events, programs, activities, and resources related to professional ethics. It has a particular focus on professions whose members are engaged in scientific research and its applications.
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The Center for Ethics in the Professions at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez
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The purpose of The Center for Ethics in the Professions is to expose university students to the importance of approaching their professional problems and tasks with philosophical depth and the critical and analytical skills that denote a person of dignity, intelligence, and self-understanding. The web page includes a number of case studies as well as essays and exercises.
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Research integrity: preventing misconduct and dealing with allegations
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OECD global science conference/link on research integrity - This page provides access to the consensus report on Best Practices for Ensuring Scientific Integrity and Preventing Misconduct, the first Wold Conference on Research Integrity in Lisbon, and the final report of a committee set up to develop practical recommendations to help in the investigation of allegations of research misconduct in international research collaborations.