Rules to ensure good scientific practice reloaded and the role of libraries in safeguarding scientific professional ethics
Nicole Walger, Director UB Duisburg-Essen
In July 2019, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) published the new code "Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice". The code refers to changes in the scientific research and publication process resulting from digital transition and to new structures and forms of cooperation in science. A mandatory culture of scientific integrity is to be expedited based on the professional ethics of scientists.
Researchers themselves remain primarily responsible for complying with good scientific practice. University libraries are not mentioned in the new code, although a large part of the new guidelines represent a playing field and field of work applicable to them in particular.
This talk will highlight the role university libraries can play in striving for truth and objectivity or in upholding scientific professional ethics.