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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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Open Science Badges

Center for Open Science (COS)

Awards badges to publications that share data, materials or preregistrations.

Open Science Self Assessment - DE/EN

Road 2 Openness

Assesses an institution's Open Science practices and shows where to improve.

PRISMA 2020

UK EQUATOR Centre

Improves transparency in systematic reviews of health and other interventions.

PROBAST+AI

UMC Utrecht Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care

Evaluates prediction models, including those built with regression or AI.

Paper Mills Primer

Tricky Goose Training

Frames workshop discussion on fraudulent publishing by paper mills.

Open Science Framework

Center for Open Science (COS)

Supports the whole research lifecycle: collaboration, preregistration, storage and sharing.

Openverse

WordPress Foundation

Indexes openly licensed images and audio from multiple sources.

PRISMA-P 2015

UK EQUATOR Centre

Specifies key items for reporting systematic review and meta-analysis protocols.

PaleorXiv

Community-Led Initiative

Hosts Paleontology preprints and papers, with options to link data and code.

PaperCheck

Community-Led Initiative

Checks manuscripts for errors, inconsistencies and compliance.

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