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Safeguarding good scientific practice: new institutional approaches in Germany
1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn, Germany.
Science and Engineering Ethics
|March 29, 2001
Abstract:
After summarising three recent case histories of alleged scientific misconduct in Germany, the efforts of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council) and the Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (German Rectors' Conference) to promote academic and procedural safeguards in favour of professional self-regulation in science and scholarship are described in outline.