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Draft 5th national science, technology, and innovation policy for public consultation (2020), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India +
The Draft 5th National Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2020) by India’s Department of Science and Technology positions open science and open access as defaults, guided by the principle of being “as open as possible, as closed as necessary,” while balancing ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and security. It links openness to research quality, reproducibility, translation speed, and equitable access, particularly for under-resourced communities. The policy outlines clear expectations for researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers, including rights retention, use of Creative Commons licences, FAIR data principles, persistent identifiers, and repository deposition, while allowing justified exceptions for sensitive or commercial data. It emphasises enabling infrastructure, compliance monitoring, and governance mechanisms such as ethics oversight and secure data environments, alongside equity measures like reducing author costs, multilingual communication, and capacity building. By consolidating dispersed rules into actionable guidance aligned with international initiatives, the draft provides India’s research ecosystem with a coherent framework for responsible, transparent, and inclusive open science practices. +
A PhD student has excellent research results in a collaborative setting. Upon request of her supervisor, she submits their research for publication as the submitting author.
After a few weeks, the supervisor approaches the student and suggests to submit the manuscript at another journal where the submission process will be easier. The supervisor suggests they could always retract one of the two submissions if it were to be doubly accepted. +
In 2018 SAGE retracted 10 papers which had been published in ''Advances in Mechanical Engineering.'' The journal states the peer review process was flawed. Once the papers were scrutinized by new reviewers the articles tecnical errors in the data was discovered.'"`UNIQ--ref-000000F9-QINU`"' The published papers were of unsatisfactory quality and were eventually, retracted. However, [https://retractionwatch.com/ Retraction Watch] speculated the reason for [https://embassy.science/wiki/Theme:4d29ae67-bee8-4203-b78f-320bc63025d0 retraction] being the discovery of the peer review of all 10 papers being fake.'"`UNIQ--ref-000000FA-QINU`"'
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In order to maintain high standards of research integrity, allegations of misconduct are taken seriously at the Dublin City University (DCU). This document lays down detailed procedural guidelines for the reporting, investigation and resolution of cases of research misconduct. +
This concise position statement aims to increase the availability and visibility of research output from the Dublin City University (DCU) by encouraging adherence to the principles of open access. Researchers are also directed to self-archive their publications in the university repository (DORAS). +
A paper had been published in a less known journal in the boundaries of a specific country as well as submitted to an international journal. The paper was later on retracted. +
The National Survey on Research Integrity (NSRI) is the first-ever nation-wide online survey targeting researchers of all universities and university medical centres in The Netherlands. NSRI aims to report on factors that promote or hinder Responsible Research Practices (RRPs). These factors cover for instance perceptions of organizational justice, scientific norms, work pressure, mentoring, and social support. It is possible that these factors play different roles in different disciplinary fields: biomedical, natural and engineering sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Similarly, the importance of the factors may vary over the career stages of a researcher. The NSRI is designed to be large enough to look separately at subgroups.
The survey will also report on the prevalence of RRPs, Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) and research misconduct (defined as falsification and fabrication) in each of the four disciplinary fields and across three academic ranks. Because of its unique [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvcaziHteAI methodology] and its nationwide target of approximately 40,000 researchers across all disciplinary fields, NSRI can provide solid data to identify driving factors that promote or hinder RRP. +
The newsblog presents the case of a social psychology researcher who was investigated for allegations of data fabrication. The researcher has had more than 3 dozens of publications retracted, received reduced salaries, was ordered to do community work and had to return his PhD. +
This is a fictional case of a graduate research assistant’s dilemma of raising his suspicions of data duplication in a professor’s team under whose grant he works. +
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EARMA (European Association of Research Managers and Administrators) is a professional association that brings together research managers and administrators across Europe and beyond. Its mission is to strengthen, professionalize, and raise the recognition of research management as a vital role in the research ecosystem. EARMA supports its community through networking, training, and advocacy, while also influencing policy at national and European levels. +
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) is an independent EU body tasked with ensuring the consistent application of data protection laws across Europe, particularly under the GDPR. It brings together the heads of national data protection authorities and the European Data Protection Supervisor to cooperate on enforcement and guidance. The EDPB issues guidelines, recommendations, and best practices to clarify data protection rules, provides formal opinions on legislation and regulatory matters, and can make binding decisions to resolve cross-border disputes. +
This online glossary of European Network for Academic Integrity contains a large list of words related to research integrity. Its content is available in ten languages. +
As a network of networks, ENERI brings together researchers and other relevant stakeholders from two important fields: Research Ethics (RE) and Research Integrity (RI). ENERI started in 2016 as a three-year Horizon 2020 project. The project ended in 2019, but the network of networks is still alive and is a great support for the RE and RI community in exchanging, collaborating, and joining forces +
The ENERI Classroom is an online training and capacity-building platform for research integrity and ethics. The Classroom provides open access to training materials for research integrity and research ethics experts, such as members of research integrity offices and research ethics committees. Most training materials are suitable for online self-learning as well as online or onsite group-learning guided by a facilitator.
The ENERI Classroom addresses four main topics:
*Research integrity
*Research ethics
*Overlapping issues
*Developing infrastructures
Each topic is divided into several learning units so that both learners and teachers can focus on issues they consider particularly important.
The topic ''research integrity'' includes learning units on:
*Research integrity boards and codes of conducts
*Research integrity principles
*Violations of research integrity
*Plagiarism
*Authorship
*Peer review
*Dealing with violations and allegations of misconduct
*Whistleblowing and whistleblower protection
*Mentoring for stronger cultures of integrity.
The topic ''research ethics'' includes learning units on:
*Research ethics committees: main tasks and challenges
*Core principles of research ethics
*Research involving vulnerable groups
*Research in emergency situations
*Biobanks
*Specific aspects of clinical drug trials
*Ethics review in non-medical fields.
The topic ''overlapping issues'' includes learning units on:
*Conflict of interest
*Data protection
*Social responsibility
*Open science
*Mentoring for stronger cultures of integrity.
The topic ''developing infrastructures'' describes crucial components of effective research integrity and research ethics infrastructures and provides guidance on what to consider when introducing new elements to existing research integrity and research ethics systems. In this way, the Classroom shows how countries, regions or institutions wishing to improve their research integrity and research ethics infrastructures can address challenges in a systematic manner.
Each learning unit is structured as follows:
*Learning objectives and introduction
*Key issues
*Regulations and guidelines
*Cases & questions
*Resources
The ENERI Decision Tree is an online tool intended to help researchers, members of research ethics committees (RECs) and research integrity officers to anticipate, reflect and address ethical questions and challenges that might arise before, during or after a research project. Thus, the ENERI Decision Tree aims to facilitate responsible conduct of research throughout all phases of the research process. Moreover, it seeks to support the work of RECs and research integrity offices (RIOs) by providing guidance on how to respond to research ethics and research integrity challenges. +
The ENERI Decision Tree is an interactive tool designed to guide researchers, members of Research Ethics Committees (RECs), and Research Integrity Officers (RIOs) through the ethical and integrity issues that may arise before, during, and after a research project. It complements the ENERI RE & RI manual by helping users identify which ethical questions are relevant to their specific research context, and by pointing them to relevant guidelines, codes, laws, and best practices. Users can click through different decision boxes corresponding to research phases or ethical dimensions, and they are directed to guidance tailored to their situation (e.g., human subjects, data protection, publication ethics). The document also notes that the decision tree is a “living” resource, subject to updates as new challenges and standards emerge. +
This e-manual on research integrity and ethics is intended for researchers and peer-reviewers. It does not provide instructions, but aims to encourage reflections on these issues. +
The manual is a resource for both researchers designing or attempting to design research, as well as professionals evaluating that research. It offers tools for practical guidance for researchers, research ethics committees and research integrity offices. +
ENRIO (European Network of Research Integrity Offices) is an association of experts and national research integrity offices across Europe committed to promoting and safeguarding research integrity. It facilitates the exchange of best practices, develops guidelines to handle misconduct, offers training and education on ethical research, and supports countries without formal national integrity structures. ENRIO also builds partnerships with other organizations to harmonize standards, increase transparency, and strengthen institutional capacity for ethical research. +
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