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Research Ethics Resource Center - Authorship and Publication Practices
New ideas and findings are communicated to the world at large through publication, which makes responsible authorship an important concern. The following topics provide information on making sound choices in the course of authoring and disseminating knowledge
- Training Modules
- Plagiarism
- Professional Guidelines
- Readings on Authorship and Publication Credit
- Readings on Authorship and Accountability
- Intellectual Property and Copyright
Training Modules
- Responsible Authorship and Peer Review
By Columbia University
Material covered includes the importance of responsible authorship, the role of an author, the role of a peer reviewer, ethical issues surrounding publication and peer review, and ways to deal with the conflicts that might arise in authorship or peer review. Includes case studies, Q&A and opportunities for reflection. - Responsible Literature Searching By Association of Health Science Libraries
You have to create an account, to access information and the site is a little difficult to navigate. However, it provides good guidelines for those in the health and biomedical sciences regarding the type of information that needs to be included in a literature search, how to select search criteria, how to keep a lit review current, and how to evaluate the appropriateness of a literature review. - Responsible Authorship and Responsibility for Bugs and Errors By The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve University.
Includes a number of scenarios and questions that highlight the issues surrounding authorship, but does not provide guidelines as to how to resolve these situations. Can be useful for stimulating classroom or lab group discussion.
- Responsible Authorship and Peer Review.
From Research Ethics Modules By North Carolina State University.
Plagiarism
- ORI policy on plagiarism
Resources for preventing plagiarism at WMU - Integrity and Plagiarism at WMU
- Plagiarism - What students need to know
- WMU Library's "Searchpath: Module 6: Citing Sources"
- WMU Office of Student Conduct
- Is it Plagiarism? By University of Maine at Farmington
Nine questions for students with feedback. - Plagiarism & Academic Integrity at Rutgers University. By Douglass College
A tutorial in which students model bad and good behavior with regard to plagiarism. Has sound and movie clips. - You Quote It, You Note It! By Acadia University
A tutorial about plagiarism for students. - What is Plagiarism? By Georgetown University
A discussion about what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid it. Very useful!!! You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to unintentionally and inadvertently plagiarize. - Plagiarism: What it is and How to Recognize and Avoid it. By Indiana University
Professional guidelines
- Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication Updated February 2006. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)
- Instructions for Authors, Journal of the American Medical Association
- Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research, American Chemical Society
- APA Ethics on Research and Publication, Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, American Psychological Association
Readings on Authorship and Publication Credit
- Authorship Task Force, Council of Science Editors.
- A new standard for authorship. By Paul J. Friedman
Specifies the type of contributions required in order to get authorship credit. - Reflections on determining authorship credit and authorship order on faculty-student collaborations. By Mark A. Fine and Lawrence A. Kurdek, 1993. American Psychologist, 48, 1141–1147.
- The ethics of authorship: Feature overview: How should authorship be decided? By K. Cottingham. March 30, 2001, Science Next Wave.
Readings on Authorship and Accountability
- Scientific misconduct. Even retracted papers endure. By K. Unger & J. Couzin, 2006. Science, 312(5770), 40-1.
Waldo Library, General stacks, call number Q1. S35 - Scientific misconduct. Cleaning up the paper trail. By J. Couzin & K. Unger, 2006. Science, 312(5770), 38-43.
Waldo Library, General stacks, call number Q1. S35 - Accountability and authorship. By K. Barker. November 8, 2002, Science Next Wave.
Intellectual Property and Copyright
- An Introduction to Intellectual Property Copyright Issues: Selected Readings. From Research Ethics Modules, North Carolina State University
- United States Copyright Office
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