[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

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.









Sec.

689.1 Definitions.

689.2 General policies and responsibilities.

689.3 Actions.

689.4 Role of awardee institutions.

689.5 Initial NSF handling of misconduct matters.



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689.6 Investigations.

689.7 Pending proposals and awards.

689.8 Interim administrative actions.

689.9 Dispositions.

689.10 Appeals.



    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1870(a).



    Source: 67 FR 11937, Mar. 18, 2002, unless otherwise noted.





    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.