Some faculty, including full professors, don't understand how to provide proper attribution to others in their writing.
That was one of the findings of a report on training in the responsible conduct of research on
campuses across the nation conducted by the National Science Foundation's Inspector
General. Responsible conduct of research, or RCR, as it's known in the field, is the ethical practice of science. It covers all aspects of scientific inquiry, including publication
The report, "OIG Review of Institutions' Implementation of NSF's Responsible Conduct of Research Requirements," states that faculty, rather than students, were the subjects of 96 percent of the plagiarism cases in which NSF made a finding of research misconduct from FY2012-2016. Most of them stated they "were unaware that using someone else's words verbatim required quotation marks."
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
NSF in the Valley of the Sun in November
The National Science Foundation will present its Fall Grants Conference Nov. 13-14 in Phoenix, AZ. Details are available here. If you can't make the trip, you can watch a live webcast of the event from your rain-surrounded office.
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
NIH clinical trials policy changes
Check out the National Institutes of Health's policy changes changes regarding human subjects research and clinical trials. The definition of clinical trials is broader, new forms will be rolled out and policies regarding clinical trials are being modified.
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