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Ethics in Science and Engineering:
Redefining Tools and Resources

October 23, 2009
University of Massachusetts Amherst

BACKGROUND READINGS

Please skim all readings and focus more on those relevant to your academic discipline.

• Smith-Doer, Laurel. 2006. "Learning to Reflect or Deflect? U.S. Policies and Graduate Programs' Ethics Training for Life Scientists." In The New Political Sociology of Science: Institutions, Networks, and Power, edited by S. Frickel and K. Moore. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Pp. 405-431.
  
  
• Anderson, Melissa S. et al. 2007. What Do Mentoring and Training in the Responsible Conduct of Research Have To Do with Scientists’ Misbehavior? Findings from a National Survey of NIH-Funded Scientists. Academic Medicine 82(9), 853-860.
  
  
• National Academy of Engineering. 2009. Ethics Education and Scientific and Engineering Research: What’s Been Learned? What Should Be Done? Summary of a Workshop.
  
  
• Gruber, Tom. 2007. Collective knowledge systems: Where the Social Web meets the Semantic Web. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 6, 4–13.
  
  
• Law, Derek. 2009. Academic Digital Libraries of the Future: An Environment Scan. New Review of Academic Librarianship 15(1), 53-67.
  
  
• Kolbitsch, Josef and Maurer, Hermann. 2006. The Transformation of the Web: How Emerging Communities Shape the Information we Consume. Journal of Universal Computer Science 12(2), 187-213.

• Adamick, Jessica. 2009. Literature Review as Call to Action: Addressing the Need for Evaluations of Subject Repositories.

REGULATIONS

• National Science Foundation. 2009, Aug 20. “Responsible Conduct of Research.” Federal Register. 74(160).

• United States Government. 2007. The America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act. 121 STAT. 572 PL 110–69. [Sections 7008 and 7009]

PARTICIPANT SUGGESTED MATERIALS

• Members of the initiatives, “Model Curriculum for Land Grant Universities in Research Ethics” (LANGURE) and “Extend and Assess Research Ethics Education” (EAREE). 2009. Response to NSF’s request for public comment on RCR requirement

• Beavers, Anthony F. Noesis and the Encyclopedic Internet Vision. See also http://noesis.evansville.edu

• Herkert, Joseph; Wetmore, Jameson; Canary, Heather; and Ellison, Karin. 2009. Integrating Microethics and Macroethics in Graduate Science and Engineering Education: Developing Instructional Models

• Pasanek, Brad & Scully, D. (2008) Mining Millions of Metaphors.

• Steneck, Nicholas. 2007. ORI Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

• Herman, Ivan. 2008. State of the Semantic Web (at least as seen from W3C…). Presentation at the 3rd Chinese Semantic Web Symposiu, Nanjing, China, August 30, 2009. Open Office | PDF

• Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research Website

• National Council of University Research Administrators Website

Funding for this project comes from the National Science Foundation through grant number 0936857. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed here are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.