Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Resources
Below are a few resources to assist with providing RCR training for your students and post-doctoral fellows. If you find additional resources that you think others may find useful, email the information to researchcompliance@siue.edu.
Guidelines for RCR Mentoring
- First and always, attend to your everyday behaviors and interactions. You serve as either a positive or a negative example for others.
- Realize RCR is a continuing process. It's not one and done.
- Remember to use a growth mindset. Just as we determine what we need to do as caregivers of plants to help them thrive rather than what they need to fix, consider what you can do to help your mentees thrive.*
- Focus on relatable and real-world content for your research and activities.
- Include discussing time and stress management and their importance not only for your mentees' health but for reducing the likelihood of resorting to research misconduct (such as plagiarism) to cope.
- Use the RCR Mentorship Suite with your mentee to:
- assess their skills
- ensure completion of appropriate training
- develop an individual development plan
- Use the Mentoring Agreement to articulate the goals and plans of a mentoring relationship.
- Use additional mentoring resources to provide training, some of which are included below.
- Follow your plan(s)!
- Ask for feedback from your mentees.
*"We would do well in our interactions with others to consider how we take care of plants. For the most part, we begin from the expectation that the plant has the ability to grow and thrive. When the plant is not doing well, we ask questions about the health of the environment...or about our own abilities as a caretaker. ... We do not immediately believe that the plant has deficits." (p. 146) Montgomery, Beronda L. Lessons from Plants. Harvard University Press. 2023.
Mentoring Resources
- SIUE Lovejoy Library Faculty Mentoring libguide
- SIUE Graduate School Graduate Student Advising and Degree Requirements
- SIUE Graduate School Mentoring Graduate Students
- SIUE Center for Faculty Development & Innovation
- The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM
- 2022 Global Summit on Mentoring
- MentorFirst - See the best practices associated with the pledge commitments
- National Research Mentoring Network - resources by career level from undergraduate through senior faculty
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education online Mentor Orientation
Hybrid SOM Course
For NIH researchers…The SIU SOM offers an RCR training course, PHARM 540. It is taught in the fall of odd numbered years in a hybrid format. Postdocs, residents, fellows, and new faculty may take the course for no cost and receive a certificate of completion that can count toward NIH RCR requirements. [Graduate students may enroll through SIUC for 1 credit (P/F).] The instructors poll participants to find a time that accommodates everyone. The course does not run all semester and typically starts after the first few weeks of the official SOM semester start. To sign up or ask questions, email Alexis Gage (agage27@siumed.edu).
Discussion Materials
- SIUE policies and plagiarism
- Policy and Procedures for Responding to Allegations of Research and Academic Misconduct - 1Q5
- Plagiarism - 1I6
- Use of iThenticate
- Potential consequences of plagiarism (such as harm to academic records, individual and institutional reputational harm, retractions of published work, and alienating collaborators and potential collaborators)
- Citation practices to promote citation integrity and case study
- Dilemma Game - card option, digital option (free version with reduced capabilities)
- HHS Office of Research Integrity videos
- HHS ORI RCR Cases by Category
- HHS ORI The Lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct
- Labs that Work...for Everyone
- The Research Clinic: Protecting Research Participants and Avoiding Research Misconduct
- University of New Hampshire's Research Office web-based modules in RCR topics
- Basic research information in Lovejoy Library libguides (such as citation formats and plagiarism)
- Resources from the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
- Resources from the National Center for Principled Leadership & Research Ethics
- Resources at The Authorship Project
- CITI RCR resources and webinars
- Dealing with Toxic Work Environments
- Tormentor mentors, and how to survive them
- SIUE resources on authorship
- UMass resources on research collaborations
