[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR689.1]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                 CHAPTER VI--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
 
PART 689--RESEARCH MISCONDUCT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 689.1  Definitions.

    The following definitions apply to this part:
    (a) Research misconduct means fabrication, falsification, or 
plagiarism in proposing or performing research funded by NSF, reviewing 
research proposals submitted to NSF, or in reporting research results 
funded by NSF.
    (1) Fabrication means making up data or results and recording or 
reporting them.
    (2) Falsification means manipulating research materials, equipment, 
or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the 
research is not accurately represented in the research record.
    (3) Plagiarism means the appropriation of another person's ideas, 
processes, results or words without giving appropriate credit.
    (4) Research, for purposes of paragraph (a) of this section, 
includes proposals submitted to NSF in all fields of science, 
engineering, mathematics, and education and results from such proposals.
    (b) Research misconduct does not include honest error or differences 
of opinion.