Ethics and Professional Conduct
Codes of Ethics
American Association for the Advancement of Science - Professional Ethics Report (archives)
American Association of University Professors - Statement on Professional Ethics
American Geophysical Union - Publication Ethics Guidelines, case studies, and links
American Institute of Biological Sciences - Ethics Statement
American Society of Plant Biologists - Ethics in Publishing
Committee on Publication Ethics - resources specifically for editors, but also includes information for authors
Ecological Society of America - Code of Ethics
Society for Conservation Biology - Code of Member Ethics
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology - Code of Ethics
Position Statements
American Institute of Biological Sciences and 12 other associations - Scientific Peer Review
Ethics Resources from the National Academies Press
Responsible Science, Volume I: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process (1992)
Responsible Science, Volume II: Background Papers and Resource Documents (1993)
On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research, Second Edition (1995)
The Experiences and Challenges of Science and Ethics: Proceedings of an American-Iranian Workshop (2003)
Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences (2003)
Ethics Papers and Articles
A Beginner’s Guide to Scientific Misconduct 
- by Bob Montgomerie and Tim Birkhead. 2005. International Society for Behavioral Ecology Newsletter 17(1): 16-21.
The mismeasurement of science - by Peter A. Lawrence, Current Biology 17(15): R583-R585, 7 August 2007.
What is Ethics in Research & Why is it Important? by David B. Resnik, December 1, 2015, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - a nice introduction piece with examples and links
Why we need an “ecological ethics” - by Ben A Minteer and James P Collins, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3(6): 332–337
Training Materials
Research Ethics - training slides on topics in research ethics, cultural competence and community-based research from the Northeast Ethics Education Partnership
Directories of Ethics Links
Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions - Illinois Institute of Technology
Online Ethics Center - National Academy of Engineering
Resources for Research Ethics Education - maintained by UCSD with many topics for teaching research ethics
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