On-line Resources in the Responsible Conduct of Research

Office of Research Integrity Introduction to RCR

by Nicholas Steneck, PhD

This booklet introduces the reader to the nine RCR core instructional areas in four sections that follows research from inception to planning, conducting, reporting, and reviewing research. The publication features case studies, text-box inserts, discussion questions, and electronic and printed resources.

Free PDF version: http://ori.dhhs.gov/ori-intro

On Being a Scientist : Responsible Conduct in Research (1995)

Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine
$5 PDF version, or read the HTML version for free at: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309051967/html/index.html

The Council of Graduate Schools has links to RCR programs at several universities:

http://www.cgsnet.org/scholarly-integrity-and-responsible-conduct-research-rcr

Exemplary on-line RCR courses:

(Self-paced lectures, videos, case studies, self-tests on the various aspects of RCR)

North Carolina State University

http://openseminar.org/ethics/modules/1/index/screen.do

California State University Long Beach

http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/aa/research/our/compliance/orientation/modules/

University of Maine

Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects

http://www.umaine.edu/irb/

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee