Scientific integrity resources
The following are resources identified by the Office of Research Integrity
Duke accountability resources
- Financial conflicts of interest
- Anonymous Duke Integrity Hot Line: 1-800-826-8109. You do not need to leave a name and calls will not be traced. Or call Duke’s Misconduct Review Officer: 919-668-5115.
- Human Subjects:
- Animals: Duke Animal Care and Use Program
- Workplace Environment:
- Ombudspersons:
- University trainees: Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Students: Ada Gregory, 919-660-2444 or ada.gregory@duke.edu.
- School of Medicine trainees: Student and Postdoctoral: Jean Spaulding, 919-668-3326 or ombudsman@mc.duke.edu.
- Campus faculty: Thomas B. Metzloff, 919-613-7055 or Metzloff@law.duke.edu
- School of Medicine faculty: Laura Svetkey, 919-681-6386 or laura.svetkey@duke.edu
Resources organized through ASIST
- Research Integrity Training
- Data Management Plan guidance
- iThenticate plagiarism detection software
- LabArchives eResearch Notebook
- Faculty/Staff Responsible Conduct of Research Education Program
- Research Quality and Reproducibility online course
- Research Town Halls
- Rigor Rapids board game
- Scholarly Culture and Accountability Plan guidance
- T32 predoctoral training grant application support - Scientific Integrity and Rigor - Email asist@duke.edu
Highlighting additional Duke resources
- University trainees: Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Students: Ada Gregory, 919-660-2444 or ada.gregory@duke.edu.
- School of Medicine trainees: Student and Postdoctoral: Jean Spaulding, 919-668-3326 or ombudsman@mc.duke.edu.
- Campus faculty: Thomas B. Metzloff, 919-613-7055 or Metzloff@law.duke.edu
- School of Medicine faculty: Laura Svetkey, 919-681-6386 or laura.svetkey@duke.edu
- Duke Library Center for Data and Visualization Sciences provides data management consulting services and instruction that support data-driven research.
- Duke’s Research Data Repository is available to anyone with a NetID for long-term archiving and open sharing of research data.
- Duke Research Computing provides consulting services for data management and storage through every stage of research.
- Duke Box and OneDrive for Business are cloud-based storage and collaboration services for all Duke University and Duke Health faculty, staff and students. (The School of Nursing wrote a helpful description comparing these services)
- DMPTool: a Data Management Planning Tool from the University of California. Duke employees can sign on through the institutional login and use one of the shared DMP templates or create their own.
- REDCap™(Research Electronic Data Capture) is a data management/provenance system, for use in clinical research and other database applications.
- PMCoP, a recent initiative from the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute focused on Project Management Community of Practice to share project management resources.
Highlighting external resources
- The Office of Research Integrity within the Department of Health and Human Services maintains an active website on the scientific community and culture with current events, articles, and resources.
- Guidelines on digital image processing from the Office of Research Integrity at DHHS
- International Cell Line Authentication Committee
- Initiatives for better reagent identification across publications (antibodies, transgenic animals etc.)
- Utility and limitations of using Excel spread sheets in research data entry and analysis
- Columbia University Research and Data Integrity (ReaDI) resources