Questions & Suggestions to CSA Ethics. We welcome all questions from basic questions about ethics and individual challenges that you may be facing to issues you think the workgroup should discuss or take initiative on and everything in between. You can either ask those questions directly in 💬 CSA Connect Ethics’ Group, or contact us directly (✉ ethics_group<at>citizenscience.org).
Codes of Ethics
- ECSA 10 Principles of Citizen Science
- CBPR Ethical Principles (see pg 8)
- North American DIYbio Code of Ethics | European Code
- CARE Principles and Guidelines for Community-University Research Partnerships
- Beyond Sabor Code of Ethics
- Belleville Committee Ethical Principles
- CCPH Guiding Principles of Partnership
- Meta-analysis of Codes of Ethics (developing countries)
Reusable Consent Forms
- For participation as a human subject (archived)
- Simplified for minimal risk research (thank you to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
- SageBioNetworks Consent Resources
- For participation in the C1 Symposium of the CSA 2017 Conference (archived)
- For participation in Citizen Science Belleville (as a citizen scientist) (archived)
- Terms of Service Agreements (Amendment of TOS for Government)
- Template MOU between researchers and community (by Superstorm Research Lab and recommended by CSA 2019 plenary speaker, Max Liboiron)
CSA Ethics Webinars
- Citizen Science Ethics 101 (slides)
- Situation Assessment and Stakeholder Analysis for Citizen Science (slides)
- How to Make Your Research Transparent (slides) Examples: OSF, Google mix
- Access: Open Access Directory, Protected Access Repositories,
Data Repositories, Open Licenses (CC-BY, CC0, code: MIT, GNU, Apache, hardware: CERN, TAPR), Community Labs, Equipment (SciStarter Tool Library, PublicLab, Certified Open Hardware, Tekla Labs, Appropedia, Thingiverse, PhysicsOpenLab), Open Analysis (R, Octave, Torch, Python), Anonymization (ARX Data Anonymization Tool, sdcMicro R package) - Permanence: FigShare, Zenodo, Harvard Dataverse, Dryad, arXiv, Databrary, ICPSR,
Open Science Framework, CRL Certified Repositories - Revisability: Post-Publication Peer-Review (PubPeer, Publons, ScienceOpen, F1000)
- Intelligibility: ClinicalTrials.gov, International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, Google Scholar, CORE, BASE
- Citability: DOI
- Objectivity: Journals Reviewing Registered Reports, Equator Network Standards, Tools for Transparency in Ecology and Evolution, Containers (Docker, Singularity, rtk), Data management planning tool
- Timeliness: Open Science Framework, Google Drive, GitHub, Box, Dropbox, iCloud Drive, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Overleaf/Authorea, Notifications for Google Drive
- Access: Open Access Directory, Protected Access Repositories,
- Ethics Review (coming soon)
- Human Subjects: Find IRBs near you, Commercial IRBs, IRB Forum
- Animal Subjects: Find IACUCs near you
- Biosafety: Find IBCs near you
- DIY Review: Belleville Research Ethics Committee (procedure to fork, analysis via HHS checklist), Citizen Science Belleville IRB, Template to identify ethical considerations (archived) (example)
Other Training
- Protection of Human Research Participants ($40 Course from NIH to satisfy their educational requirement of investigators)
- Alternatives:
- Research Ethics Online Training (by World Health Organization)
- Research Ethics Training (by Family Health International)
- Ethics and Human Subject Protection (by Association of Clinical Research Professionals)
- Good Clinical Practice (by National Drug Abuse Treatment)
- Alternatives:
- Clinical Research Training Online
- Good Clinical Practices for Social and Behavioral Sciences (NIH)
- Basic Research Concepts (by Office of Research Integrity; covers ethics of sampling, blinding, use of inferior measures, misleading reporting, and deviations from claimed method)
- Case Studies for use in training (by Sarah West and Rachel Pateman, Stockholm Environment Institute, York)
- Citizen Science Training Videos and Assessments (OneFlorida and University of Florida)
Guides
- Managing Intellectual Property Rights in Citizen Science (Commons Lab)
- International Compilation of Human Research Standards (1000 laws from 131 countries)
- Conflict Resolution Framework (NIH)
Related Websites
- ECSA working group on Citizen Science & Open Science
- ECSA working group on Citizen Science & Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
- U.S. Citizen Science Toolkit: Law and Policy
- The Human Right to Science (AAAS Working Group, Conference May 18-22, 2019, Dubronvik, Croatia)
Related Blogs
- citizenbiomedicine (Social, ethical and regulatory aspects of citizen science in biomedicine and health care)
- PolicyWise: Citizen Science (Baylor College Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy)