To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Undergrad Students &
           All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Tony G. Waldrop" <twaldrop@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: m-loots@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Research Integrity Policies

For compliance purposes, federal and state sponsors of research require 
that all faculty, staff, and students engaged in sponsored research be 
informed regularly about campus policies on research integrity.

The University-wide procedures for addressing particular instances of 
unethical conduct in research and publication are stated in the POLICY AND 
PROCEDURES ON ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION.  This 
document is available on the Web at http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/vcres/ai/.

Under this policy, all members of the University community are expected to 
observe high standards of academic integrity and ethical behavior in 
research and publication.  Any practice or conduct by a member of the 
University community that seriously deviates from those ethical standards 
for proposing, conducting, and publishing research that are commonly 
accepted within the professional community constitutes academic misconduct 
in violation of University policy. 

Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

a. Fabrication or falsification of data, including reporting of credentials 
or other academically related information that is intentionally misleading, 
selective, or deliberately false;
 
b. Unacknowledged appropriation of the work of others, including 
plagiarism, the abuse of confidentiality with respect to unpublished 
materials, or misappropriation of physical materials;
 
c. Intentional failure to comply with research regulations or requirements, 
including but not limited to those applying to human subjects, laboratory 
animals, new drugs, radioactive materials, genetically altered organisms, 
and to safety; and 

d. Other conduct that seriously deviates from accepted ethical standards in 
scholarship.  Differences of interpretation or judgment or honest error do 
not constitute academic misconduct.

A student or faculty member who believes that academic misconduct has 
occurred has several options for pursuing the matter informally.  Most such 
problems can and should be resolved without resort to formal procedures, 
but rather through consultation with an adviser, department or unit head, 
or the campus Research Standards Officer, J. Gary Eden, Associate Vice 
Chancellor for Research.

If you have questions about this policy, please contact Professor Eden at 
333-4157 or jgeden@uiuc.edu.

The campus's official statement "Responsible Professional Conduct: 
Guidelines for Teaching, Research, and Service" is printed in the ACADEMIC 
STAFF HANDBOOK (1998-2000), pp. 62-65, on the Web at 
http://webster.uihr.uiuc.edu/ahrhandbook/chap5/academic_integrity.html.
and in the HANDBOOK FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND ADVISERS (January 1999), pp. 
48-50, on the Web at http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/grad_handbook/XII.html.

This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

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