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Approved by Board of Trustees on October 12, 1990
(Revised April, 1998; Technical revisions November, 2002)
The University of Connecticut is committed to maintaining the integrity of scholarship and investigative research and to fostering a climate conducive to such scientific integrity. The University believes that its research activities are conducted in a responsible and ethical fashion. Therefore, unethical research practices are a major breach of contract between the faculty or staff member involved and the University. Consequently, formal procedures have been established to investigate alleged unethical practices. These procedures incorporate the requirements of the relevant collective bargaining units. They do not supersede nor set up alternatives to established procedures for resolving other kinds of misconduct, such as, but not limited to, fiscal improprieties, issues concerning the ethical treatment of human or animal subjects, or criminal matters.
Though the concept "integrity in research" embraces a wide range of issues and practices, this policy defines research misconduct as fraudulent or markedly irregular practices in research conduct and in the collection, analysis and reporting of data; including fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or other practices that seriously deviate from those that are commonly accepted within the scientific community for proposing, conducting or reporting research.
This policy is based on requirements of the Public Health Service (PHS) regulations codified at 42 C.F.R., Part 50, Subpart A, "Responsibility of PHS Awardee and Applicant Institutions for Dealing with and Reporting Possible Misconduct in Science".
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