Chemistry 350
Course Manual
 

Ethics and Computers

 
Codes of Ethical Conduct
Legal Codes of Conduct Other Sites of Interest

 

Codes

Responsible Use of Computing -George Mason University
Required Reading

Best Statistical Practices to Promote Research Integrity
Required Reading - "Taxonomy"

The Chemist's Code of Conduct -American Chemical Society
Required Reading

Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research -American Chemical Society
Required Reading - "Authors"

Guidelines for the Conduct of Research -NIH
Required Reading - "Data Management", "Publication", "Authorship"

On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research -National Academy of Sciences
Required Reading -"Treatment of Data","Mistakes and Negligence","Research Misconduct", "Authorship and Allocation of Credit" (scroll down to see Chapter titles)
- Here is the entire reading assignment.

"By considering many of the hard decisions that researchers make in the course of their work, this booklet examines both the epistemological and social dimensions of scientific research. It looks at such questions as: How should anomalous data be treated? How do values influence research? How should credit for scientific accomplishments be allocated? What are the borderlines between honest error, negligent error, and misconduct in science?"

 

Legal Codes of Conduct

Honor Code -George Mason University
Required Reading

Plagiarism Statement -George Mason University
Required Reading

Understanding Plagiarism - definitions, examples, quizzes

Copyright
Required Reading

Plagiarism and Copyright - Plagiarism Checker
Required Reading

Case Summaries of Misconduct - Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Dep't Health and Human Services

 

Other Sites of Interest

 

RetractionWatch - a site that reports on cases of research misconduct and accompanying journal retractions

Ethics in Research and Publication - a site from Elsevier, with quizzes, resources, and a "toolkit"

 


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