Research ethics
Research ethics are good scientific practices, and all employees at UiO and NCMM should have a high degree of awareness on the ethical aspects of their research. At NCMM the group leaders govern the responsibility for good scientific practices in line with the UIO policy.
UIO's10 commandments for ethical practices
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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".
The individual researcher at UiO has the following responsibility: "The researcher shall ensure that a full text version of all scientific articles is submitted to the institutional repository."
Researchers submit their articles in Cristin, with transfer to DUO research archive.
https://www.ub.uio.no/english/writing-publishing/open-access/index.html
Documentation of research
- Lab books- At NCMM we use 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
- You can find a link to the document Checklist for processing data here
- You can find a link to the document Key elements in an agreement for transfer of material by UiO here
- You can find a link to the document Form for subject identity list and list of trial subjects here
Forskpro
Forskpro is a UiO registry used to get an overview of ongoing research projects. Here all medical and health research projects carried out at UiO should be registered. This also include other research projects if your unit at UiO is using Forskpro. Since NCMM is using Forskpro it is mandatory to register all projects.
How to register in Forskpro
For help with Forskpro contact Katrine Ore
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
