Good Scientific Practice

TU Dresden has issued the Statutes for Ensuring Good Scientific Practice, Avoiding Scientific Misconduct, and Handling Violations. All members and staff of TU Dresden are obliged to follow these statutes, to make them the basis of their scientific work and to actively contribute to the avoidance of scientific misconduct within their sphere of activity.

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The statute regulates, among other things, that the entire scientific staff of TU Dresden as well as all doctoral candidates are obliged to complete at least one training course in digital form or as a classroom event on the topic of "Good Scientific Practice".

For more information, please visit the website on "Good Scientific Practice at TU Dresden".

The principles of good scientific practice require that all scientists work "lege artis" (i.e. according to the rules of art).

This includes, among other things:

•     the correct handling of data,
•     critical questioning of all results
•     to avoid and prevent scientific misconduct,
•     maintaining strict honesty with regard to one's own and third parties' contributions.

Possible violations of the rules of good scientific practice are manifold. For example, scientific misconduct occurs when deliberately or grossly negligently

•     Data or sources are invented or falsified,
•     you compromise or interfere with the research activities of others,
•     violate intellectual property (e.g. through plagiarism or theft of ideas),
•     falsely accuse third parties of scientific misconduct,
•     know about scientific falsification or misconduct and do nothing about it,
•     severely neglecting the duty of supervision.

Summer Semester 2021

Furthermore, the Qualification program offers a broad spectrum of courses
that focus on different questions closely linked to this topic, such as:

• Visualization of Research Data
• Scientific Writing
• Research Data Management

Doctoral candidates in medicine

The Faculty of Medicine provides its own courses on the topic of “Good Scientific Practice” particularly for doctoral candidates in medicine.

More information on this can be found on the faculty's website.
Dates and registration: https://elearning.med.tu-dresden.de/moodle/login/index.php

Workshops for university lecturers

Workshops on "Good Scientific Practice" for university lecturers
will be available on the website of the Center for Continuing Education (ZfW).

Introductory workshops for doctoral students

The Graduate Academy (GA) offers on request introductory workshops on Good Scientific Practice (GSP) for doctoral candidates. These workshops can be conducted in-house by qualified course instructors of the GA.

If you would like to arrange such a course, please email to
graduiertenakademie@tu-dresden.de
 

Subject-specific trainers at the TU Dresden

Furthermore,  certified contact persons are available in all five Schools, at the cfaed, the CRTD as well as in the Graduate School DIGS-BB, who can offer subject-specific GSP workshops for Master students and doctoral candidates.

 List of contact details of all contact persons and trainers.

This course was developed specifically for PhD candidates by the Goethe University, Frankfurt. It offers an introduction to the standards and principles of scientific integrity.

Registration

You would like to complete the e-learning? Please send us an email with your GA membership number to graduiertenakademie@tu-dresden.de.

You will then receive an email with an entry code. With this code you can log in and participate anytime, anywhere. It will approximately take one hour to complete the course.

Please note!

The GA membership is mandatory. Since the GA only has a limited number of licenses, each GA member can only receive one login code. The privacy and data protection policy of the Goethe University applies.

Doctoral candidates & postdocs with questions regarding "Good Scientific Practice" can also make individual appointments with specifically qualified advisors at the Graduate Academy.

Would you like to book an appointment?

Please use our contact form.

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Online-Portal „Wissenschaftliche Integrität“ (in German only)
Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice. Code of Conduct

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

Urheberrecht in der Wissenschaft. Ein Überblick (in German only)
Copyright in Academic Work - An overview

Ombudsmann für die Wissenschaft

Internationale Codes of Conduct und Research Integrity Reports

Sächsische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (SLUB)

Writing and Publishing
Zitieren & gute wissenschaftliche Praxis (in German only)
Zitierleitfaden der SLUB (in German only)
Zitierstile ausgewählter Fakultäten und Institute der TU Dresden | Übersicht
(in German only)

Game-based learning | Gamification on academic integrity

Dilemma Game| Erasmus University Rotterdam
Seneca's Integrity Matters |  University of Waterloo
Jeopardy on Academic Integrity | Jeopardy Labs

TU Dresden has issued the Statutes for Ensuring Good Scientific Practice, Avoiding Scientific Misconduct, and Handling Violations.

All members and staff of TU Dresden are obliged to follow these statutes, to make them the basis of their scientific work and to actively contribute to the avoidance of scientific misconduct within their sphere of activity.

The ombudsperson is the contact person, advisor, and mediator in all cases of suspected scientific misconduct. If necessary, he or she will be supported by the Review Board for Scientific Misconduct.

Your report will be treated confidentially. Confidentiality serves to protect the whistleblower as well as the person suspected of misconduct.

The ombudsperson shall maintain a regular exchange with the liaison officers of the faculties, the Review Board for Scientific Misconduct, as well as the other advisory bodies of TU Dresden. Conflict cases that are not related to scientific misconduct can be forwarded confidentially to the responsible offices of TU Dresden (e.g., Personnel Representation Council, conflict mediator of the Graduate Academy, psychosocial counselling, etc.) with the consent of the informant. 

If, in the view of the ombudsperson, there is reasonable suspicion of academic misconduct, it will be reviewed by the Investigative Committee or, in suspected cases where the misconduct relates to academic examinations (e.g. Bachelor's, Master's, Diploma examinations) or graduations (doctorates, habilitations), by the regular Examination Board provided for in the respective examination and graduation regulations.

Contact

Prof. Dr. Christel Baier | Ombudsperson
ombudsperson@​tu-dresden.de

Prof. Dr. Christina Dornack | Deputy Ombudsperson
Christina.Dornack@​tu-dresden.de

In cases of suspected scientific misconduct, the Office for Good Scientific Practice  supports the ombudsperson, the Investigative Committee, and the regular review boards.

The Office for Good Scientific Practice accepts reports of suspected misconduct confidentially and provides information on possible procedural steps. This shall not affect the right of direct recourse to the ombudsperson or the Investigative Committee.

In cases of suspected scientific misconduct, the Office for Good Scientific Practice offers to check final theses (e.g. Bachelor's, Master's, Diploma examinations) or graduations (doctorates, habilitations) for plagiarism using plagiarism detection software.

Contact

Sigrid Flade
sigrid.flade@tu-dresden.de

Each faculty appoints one male and one female scientist as a liaison officer for early-career researchers. 

List of contact details of the faculty liaison officers (download)

These are the first contact persons for early-career researchers at the faculty level. These liaison officers serve as contact persons that can be easily approached by early-career researchers (especially doctoral candidates) and who can mediate in problematic situations.

If necessary, and only with the consent of the person seeking advice, they can pass the conflict case on to the ombudsperson. This shall not affect the right of direct recourse to the ombudsperson. The Review Board for Scientific Misconduct is then informed of the conflict case.

Furthermore, certified contact persons are available in all five Schools, as well as at the cfaed, the CRTD as well as in the Graduate School DIGS-BB, who offer subject-specific GSP workshops for Master students and doctoral candidates.

List of contact details of all contact persons and trainers

In the course of the scientific process, a large amount of data is generated. This research data can be generated by both qualitative and quantitative research, e.g. through interviews, surveys, experiments or observations, and can exist in analog or digital form including text documents, spreadsheets, logbooks, questionnaires, audio and video recordings, samples, collections, database content or protocols.

Long-term archiving of research data is a prerequisite for the traceability of scientific results. In addition, the data obtained is of interest for possible subsequent use.

 Guidelines on the handling of research data at TU Dresden.
For more detailed information, please visit the website of the Service Center Research Data.