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Start the                 that change research practices

Better Research Practices Rarely Stay With One Team. A clearer protocol, a shared dataset, a checklist someone actually uses: each one ripples out to the next collaborator, the next lab, the next field.

The Research Integrity in Practice Library (RIPL) brings together no-cost solutions that start those ripples, drawn from the SIA Partner Network and the wider research integrity community worldwide. Solutions come in four kinds, color-coded to match the cards below.

Repository

Catalog

Registry

Collections

Software

Assessment

Review Venue

Platform

Tools

Course

Glossary

Guideline

Learning Resource

Discussion Primer

Knowledge

Commitment

Recognition System

Pledges

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Catalogue of Bias

University of Oxford

Identifies and explains biases that affect the validity of health research.

ClinicalTrials.gov

U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Registers clinical studies and their protocols, eligibility criteria and results.

Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (COSIG)

Community-Led Initiative

Teaches post-publication peer review through open-source tutorials.

Consent Primer for Ethics Reviewers

Tricky Goose Training

Explores complex scenarios in participant consent for ethics reviewers.

DINI Certificate for Open Access Repositories and Publication Services

Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI)

Sets quality standards for Open Access repositories and publication services.

Choose a License for Your Work

Creative Commons

Helps you choose a Creative Commons license and gives you the code to apply it.

Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA)

European Science Foundation (ESF)

Reforms research assessment through qualitative evaluation and responsible metrics.

Collective Action In Science Diamond

Free our Knowledge

Adopts diamond open access publishing in Cognitive Science through collective action.

DAGitty

Community-Led Initiative

Builds and analyzes causal diagrams to support study design and interpretation.

DMP Tool

California Digital Library (CDL)

Guides researchers in preparing data management plans that meet funder requirements.

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