Responsible conduct of research training provides basic information about accepted practices in scientific inquiry. Training requirements vary across funding agencies.
Funding Source |
NIH |
NSF |
USDA/NIFA |
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Applicability |
NIH-funded trainees, fellows, participants, and scholars. Faculty highly encouraged. Not applicable to all grants. See Training Details below. |
Faculty and other senior personnel, undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. |
Program directors, faculty, undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and staff |
Topics |
See Training Details below and Training Resources for content | ||
Frequency |
Every 4 years |
Once |
Once |
Format |
Discussion-based instruction is a key feature of RCR training and must include substantive face-to-face interaction among participants and faculty. See Notice for details and exceptions. |
Not specified by agency. CITI training will suffice. | Not specified by agency. CITI training will suffice. |
Tracking |
Individual learners are responsible for documenting and tracking their training. Researchers funded by NIH, NSF, or USDA will be asked to submit an ANNUAL REPORT of that training to OSRAA. |
NIH-funded trainees, fellows, participants, and scholars. Faculty highly encouraged.
Applicability: D43, D71, F05, F30, F31, F32, F33, F34, F37, F38, K01, K02, K05, K07, K08, K12, K18, K22, K23, K24, K25, K26, K30, K99/R00, KL1, KL2, R25, R36, T15, T32, T34, T35, T36, T37, T90/R90, TL1, TU2, and U2R any other NIH-funded programs supporting research training, career development, or research education that require instruction in responsible conduct of research as stated in the relevant funding opportunity announcements.
Not all topics are relevant to all learners. Add or substitute other research integrity-related topics at your discretion and in accordance with your approved plan.
NIH encourages RCR instruction at every stage of a researcher’s career and at a frequency of no less than once every four years. NIH also highly encourages that initial RCR training for predoctoral researchers takes place as early as possible in graduate school.
Discussion-based instruction is a key feature of RCR training and must include substantive face-to-face interaction among participants and faculty. See Notice for details and exceptions.
Individual learners are responsible for documenting and tracking their training. Researchers funded by NIH, NSF, or USDA will be asked to submit an ANNUAL REPORT of that training to OSRAA.
Undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Faculty highly encouraged.
NEW! Requirements expand to faculty and other senior personnel for proposals submitted on or after July 31, 2023. Includes mandate for training in mentorship and research security.
NSF encourages consideration of the following reports by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in meeting RECR requirements: Fostering Integrity in Research; Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and Reproducibility and Replicability in Science.
Not all topics are relevant to all learners. Add or substitute other research integrity-related topics at your discretion and in accordance with your approved plan.
NSF allows an institution to determine the frequency of RCR training. At OSU this training is required once.
NSF does not specify the RCR training methods. Training can be delivered in-person or virtually through group or lab meetings, seminars, or courses. Online resources, such as CITI may also be utilized.
Individual learners are responsible for documenting and tracking their training. Researchers funded by NIH, NSF, or USDA will be asked to submit an ANNUAL REPORT of that training to OSRAA.
Program directors, faculty, undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and any staff participating in the research project.
USDA directs that the general content of the ethics training, at a minimum, will emphasize three key areas of research ethics: authorship and plagiarism, data and research integration and reporting misconduct. Not all other topics are relevant to all learners. Add or substitute other research integrity-related topics at your discretion and in accordance with your approved plan.
USDA allows an institution to determine the frequency of RCR training. At OSU this training is required once.
USDA does not specify the RCR training methods. Training can be delivered in-person or virtually through group or lab meetings, seminars, or courses. Online resources, such as CITI may also be utilized.
Individual learners are responsible for documenting and tracking their training. Researchers funded by NIH, NSF, or USDA will be asked to submit an ANNUAL REPORT of that training to OSRAA.
If you would like to make an anonymous report related to any violation of ethical standards or institutional policies, we encourage you to use the Accountability & Integrity Hotline: EthicsPoint