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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
28. Please enter any additional information that may assist the authors’ understanding of RCR training
activities at your library and/or parent institution. N=16
Endnote workshops are held almost monthly at the main and health sciences campuses.
IRB provides ethics of research training through CITI tutorial and data management center offers consultations on data
issues.
Most of this is done at the university level and not the library level, and even there the program is in its infancy.
Most RCR content covered by our libraries occurs in course-related instructional sessions, or through self-paced online
tutorials.
Principal investigators on NSF projects have to certify that their students and post-docs met the RCR requirements.
RCR training could possibly come out of the strategic planning that we are doing now but as yet it is not planned.
RCR training is adequately covered by the institution’s Office of Research and within academic departments for ethics
and research methods training. The library collaborates on training when appropriate (particularly for citation methods,
use of bibliographic management tools, and academic integrity), as part of its instruction program.
RCR training is largely the carried out by the Office for Research/Office for Research Integrity. The libraries offer the
workshops referred to elsewhere in this document, and there are plans to add workshops in the near future.
The Libraries assumed responsibility for these workshops when there was a shift in university administration (the
committee that first developed the senate policy of academic integrity has lapsed and there is no administrative access
to the online materials). As well, the “teaching” department for the university has also restructured and they’re only
now starting to relaunch the academic integrity component. The Libraries received university funding to develop
an online learning module for academic integrity. As well, the two librarians deliver library workshops. There is no
additional administrative support or leave time given to develop/deliver/evaluate these workshops. It is part of normal
workload and it contributes to our “service” component of our tenure process.
The responses to this survey encompass several discipline specific libraries within our library system. Not all libraries
offer all types of RCR training indicated in the responses.
The university is now offering RCR training through CITI. The GAP Avoiding Plagiarism online game is available to
students, and offers a certificate of completion.
Training and communication about these topics will be developed and offered jointly with other campus offices,
including Research Administration, Human Subjects, and Undergraduate and Graduate Studies.
Training materials and related resources for the university research community include an introduction to the Tri-Agency
Framework (slides or recorded presentation), the university’s policies and procedures related to RCR, the Tri-Council
Policy Statement Online Tutorial, and procedures specific to financial disclosure.
We do have a librarian serving as a non-scientific, alternate member on the Institutional Animal Care and Use
Committee. She does assist with literature searches where ethics might be involved but does not interpret them.
We see our role as filling in any gaps in the institutional RCR training, which primarily occur in the area of plagiarism and
proper citations/citation management systems.
We would like to do more with RCR, but lack staff with expertise to provide assistance and training.
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