Duke Graduate School

The Duke Graduate School regularly offers RCR training in the core topics below for PhD students in every department and program. This list includes the nine core areas for RCR training identified by the US Office of Research Integrity. We also provide occasional training on specialized topics such as ethical issues in qualitative or ethnographic research, nanoscience and technology, or bioethics.

We have included links to relevant resources for some of the core topics below. For more resources, see the RCR Policies and Resources page.

1. Academic integrity and misconduct

• Identifying and reporting misconduct
• Duke Library tutorial on plagiarism
• Copyright concerns
• Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog
• Duke Standard of Conduct

2. Conflict of interest or commitment

• Duke policy in faculty handbook

3. Inventions, Patents, and Technology Transfer

• Duke policy in faculty handbook

4. Mentor/advisee responsibilities

• Duke Graduate School’s “Best Practices: Core expectations in Graduate Education” document

5. Harassment prevention and handling complaints

• Office of Institutional Equity

6. Human subjects

• Campus IRB
• Medical IRB

7. Animal subjects

• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
• Animal Care and Use Program

8. Data management

• Duke Library- Data Management Guide

9. Intellectual property

• Policy on intellectual property
• Policy on inventions, patents, technology transfer

10. Authorship, Copyright, and Scholarly Communications

• Office of Copyright and Scholarly Communications
• Author’s rights
• Copyright and fair use in teaching
• Open access and institutional repositories

11. Collaborative research

• University-industry guidelines

12. Fiscal responsibility

• Research Costing Compliance