Declaración Nacional sobre Integridad Científica, signed in November 2015 by the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE), the Confederation of Scientific Societies of Spain (COCSE) and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).
Código ALLEA de Conducta para la Integridad en la Investigación, signed by the University of Valencia in 2023. It is a European-wide code that refers to integrity in data management, collaborative work, publication and dissemination of research and review , evaluation and editing.
1. Ethics Commission of the UV
The Ethics Committee in Experimental Research of the University of Valencia is a consultative advisory body responsible for the evaluation of ethical problems that arise in the development of research projects that experiment with humans or with human biological samples , with animals, with pathogenic biological agents or genetically modified organisms, considering their effect on life and the environment.
The Commission's website has a link to the forms and authorization requests that interested researchers must fill out:
2. Ethics in the publication phase: plagiarism
What is plagiarism and how can we avoid it?
- Respect the ideas of others and their expression by citing the documents you have used to prepare your work.
- What is plagiarism and how can we avoid it UV Libraries and Documentation Service
- Identifying plagiarism IEEE
- Books in the TROBES catalog
How to spot plagiarism
One of the tools used to detect plagiarism are computer programs that compare texts and allow the degree of similarity between them to be recognized.
UV uses the Strike Plagiarism program, integrated into the Virtual Classroom platform, to detect plagiarism. It can be accessed from the link https://antiplagio.uv.es
Links to free programs
3. Publishers' rules regarding publication ethics
- Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
- Resources for Research Ethics Education
- Declaración de Helsinki (Ethical principles for medical research on human subjects)
- Ethics codes collection (ECC). Compilation of ethical codes of different scientific disciplines
- Academic integrity at MIT
