Difference between revisions of "Research ethics"

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Research ethics is good scientific practice. All employees at NCMM and UiO shall have a high degree of awareness on the ethical aspects of their research. At NCMM the group leaders are responsible for ensuring good scientific practice in their group, that is in line with the UIO policy.

UIO research ethics

UIO's10 commandments for ethical practices

Open access

UiOs Open Access policy is in accordance with the government's guidelines: all members of staff "shall undertake to do their best to ensure that scientific articles deposited into the institutional repository can be made openly available as soon as possible".

Researchers at NCMM/ UiO "shall ensure that a full text version of all scientific articles is submitted to the institutional repository."

All researchers submit their articles in Cristin, with transfer to DUO research archive. More on Open access from the University Library

Documentation of research

• Lab books - NCMM uses numbered laboratory journals to document experiments. The books must be signed out and returned to Carlos Rodríguez: c.r.rodriguez@ncmm.uio.no
• Project tracking- It is important to store raw data, document procedures used and handling of data and material in agreement with the group leader

Data policy

• Storing and handling of research data

• Checklist for processing data here
• Key elements in an agreement for transfer of material by UiO here
• Form for subject identity list and list of trial subjects here

Forskpro

Forskpro is a UiO registry used to obtain an dynamic overview of all ongoing research projects. All medical and health research projects carried out at UiO should be registered.

How to register in Forskpro

For help with Forskpro contact Medical faculty research administration

Authorship

As a general rule, NCMM aims to follow the Vancouver convention on authorship as closely as possible.

Ethical guidelines

We expect all members of NCMM to be honest in scientific research and communications and work within the scope of the UIO Ethics framework.

• Medical research
• Ethical guidelines
• Research data and data management
• Procedures for UiO’s quality system for medical and health Research (REK)

Approvals and authorizations

Certain types of research needs approvals and authorization from governmental entities and here are some links to the most frequently used at NCMM.

Overview of approvals needed in medical research

• The regional ethics comity for medical research REK
• Norwegian Data Protection Authority
• Norwegian Food Safety Authority for approval for using research animals FOTS(Norwegian)
• Norwegian Directorate of Health GMO