Safeguarding good scientific practice: new institutional approaches in Germany.
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.
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn, Germany.
D004989:Ethics; D017041:Ethics Committees; D005858:Germany; D015871:Scientific Misconduct / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014495:Universities