To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Undergrad Students &
           All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Melanie Loots" <m-loots@uiuc.edu>

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

 ANNUAL MESSAGE ON RESEARCH INTEGRITY POLICIES

TO:    Faculty, staff, and students who conduct research

FROM:  Charles F. Zukoski
       Vice Chancellor for Research 


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 concerning research integrity.

The University-wide procedures for addressing particular instances of 
unethical conduct in research and publication are stated in the booklet 
POLICY AND PROCEDURES ON ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION. 
This document is available on the Web at

   http://www.research.uiuc.edu/ai/index.asp.

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 intentionally 
misleading, selective, or deliberately false reporting of credentials or 
other academically related information; 
   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plagiarism, the abuse of confidentiality with respect to unpublished 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. Evasion of or intentional failure after notice by the University or 
federal, state, or another appropriate agency 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 which 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, 
through consultation with an adviser, department or unit head, or the 
campus Research Standards Officer, Gary Eden, Associate Vice Chancellor 
for Research.

If you have questions about this policy, please contact Professor Eden or 
Dr. Melanie Loots at 333-0034 or send e-mail to rsofficer@uiuc.edu

The campus's official statement "Responsible Professional Conduct: 
Guidelines for Teaching, Research, and Service" is printed in the ACADEMIC 
STAFF HANDBOOK (2000-2002), pp. 62-66, on the Web at
   http://webster.uihr.uiuc.edu/ahrhandbook/chap5/academic_integrity.html
and in the HANDBOOK FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND ADVISERS (May 2001), pp. 49-
51, on the Web at
   http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/grad_handbook/



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The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research

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