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General Guide for Chemists and Chemical Engineers

Ethical Codes & Research Conduct

Key Documents

• AIChE Code of Ethics
• Chemical Professional’s Code of Conduct
• Ethical Guidelines to Publication of Chemical Research
• NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers (Nat Soc Prof Engineers)
• On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research, Second Edition

Stanford University

• Fundamental Standard
• Honor Code
• Judicial Affairs
• Dean of Research and Graduate Policy
• Computing Policy
• Information Security Office
• Center for Biomedical Ethics

Selected eBooks

• Emerging Technologies and Ethical Issues in Engineering: Papers from a Workshop, October 14–15, 2003 (2004)
• Responsible Science: Volume 1: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process (1992)
• Responsible Science, Volume II: Background Papers and Resource Documents (1993)
• Integrity in Scientific Research: Creating an Environment That Promotes Responsible Conduct (2002)

Internet Resources

• AAAS Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program
• ACS Committee on Ethics
• ACS Committee on Professional Training
  • Scientific Ethics in Chemical Education (ACS CPT Newsletter, 2 (2), Spring 1997) (pdf)
    See second article in this issue.
• Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
• The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program (Nat Human Genome Res Inst)
• Ethics in Computing (North Carolina State Univ)
• Ethics in Engineering (Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, North Carolina State Univ)
• Ethics in Science (Dept of Chemistry, Virginia Tech)
• Ethics Updates Home Page (Univ of San Diego)
  Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics.
• EthicsWeb.ca
  • Applied Ethics > Science & Technology Ethics
• The Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Institute of Ethics (Georgetown Univ)
• Murdough Center for Ethics in Engineering (Texas Tech Univ, College of Engineering)
  • National Institute for Engineering Ethics
  • Applied Ethics in Professional Practice
• NIH Ethics Resources
• National Society for Professional Engineers (NSPE) — Engineering Ethics
• Online Ethics Center at the National Academy of Engineering
• The President’s Council on Bioethics
• Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (Elsevier)