ETSU Guidelines on the Responsible Conduct of Research

PREAMBLE A central responsibility of a university is to promote, encourage, enable, and conduct high quality research.  East Tennessee State University is committed to quality research, and to the responsible conduct of that research.  The university expects everyone working here—individual researchers, lab managers, technicians, and students—to embody the highest standards of research excellence, to exhibit exemplary moral behavior as researchers. However, It is not enough to hold employees and students to high ethical standards.  The institution will actively seek ways (a) to encourage careful thought about our ethical responsibilities as researchers, (b) to reward exemplary behavior and to censure questionable behavior, and (c) to promulgate these expectations to all students and everyone within the university’s employ.

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ETSU Guidelines on the Responsible Conduct of Research (PDF)

Misconduct in Scholarship & Research ETSU Policy

Ethical Guidelines Policy for Interactions between Pharmaceutical Companies and Residents (Word)

A Guide to the Determination of Authorship (Word) 

RCR Training Module from Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI)

Research Ethics Related Links 

On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct of Research