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Comments - Statements (12)
Open Science as Part of Research Culture. Positioning of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
19.06.2023 – In its position paper entitled “Open Science as Part of Research Culture”, the DFG sets out its existing positions on the issue of open science and examines the potential and challenges involved. From the DFG’s point of view, while open science – ...
Comment on: GL7 (Statements) , GL13 (Statements)
Academic publishing as a foundation and area of leverage for research assessment
25.11.2022 – The DFG has responded to developments in the field of academic publishing with its position paper “Academic Publishing as a Foundation and Area of Leverage for Research Assessment”.
Comment on: GL13 (Statements)
DFG statement on the replicability of research results
03.06.2022 – Replication, is only one of many different procedures for assuring the quality of results in fields of science that use empirical-quantitative methods.
Comment on: GL7 (Statements)
Approval procedure for animal experiments
11.08.2021 – The statement was prepared by the DFG’s Permanent Senate Commission on Animal Protection and Experimentation. It presents the results of a nationwide survey and a round table discussion on the approval procedure for animal experiments as well as ...
Comment on: GL10 (Life sciences) , GL10 (Statements)
DFG Practical Guidelines on Digitisation
03.12.2020 – The aim of the Practical Guidelines on Digitisation in the funding area of Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (LIS) is to make it easier for applicants to plan digitisation projects and to enable the comparative review of proposals. The ...
Comment on: GL13 (Statements)
Quality standards in connection with rapid publication
03.12.2020 – Rapid publication of research data and findings by no means allows any compromise to be made in terms of accepted quality standards in the given field.
Comment on: GL7 (Statements) , GL11 (Statements) , GL12 (Statements) , GL13 (Statements) , GL15 (Statements)
Research freedom and responsibility / dual use
03.12.2020 – In many areas of research, the results gained can be used in other contexts (dual use). The DFG has developed several statements on this, partly in cooperation with other organisations.
Comment on: GL10 (Statements)
Recommendations for handling security-relevant research / dual use research of concern
03.12.2020 – In 2014, Leopoldina and the DFG published “Recommendations for Handling Security-Relevant Research” (dual use research of concern). The key recommendation involves establishing special committees for ethics in security-relevant research (KEFs) at ...
Comment on: GL10 (Statements)
Animal experimentation in research
03.12.2020 – The guidelines were developed by the DFG’s Permanent Senate Commission on Animal Protection and Experimentation and offer assistance in taking into account the specific requirements when planning, describing and carrying out animal experiments as part ...
Comment on: GL10 (Statements)
Statement by the DFG’s Permanent Senate Commission on Fundamental Issues of Biodiversity (SKBV)
03.12.2020 – The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework for the Convention on Biological Diversity: the explanatory notes were developed in 2019 by the DFG Senate Commission on Fundamental Issues of Biodiversity (SKBV) and seek to provide assistance for investigators ...
Comment on: GL10 (Statements)
Reproducibility of research results in medicine and biomedicine
03.12.2020 – This statement was prepared in 2018 by the DFG Permanent Senate Commission on Key Questions in Clinical Research in consultation with the DFG Permanent Senate Commission on Animal Protection and Experimentation and the DFG Permanent Senate Commission on ...
Comment on: GL7 (Statements) , GL9 (Statements) , GL12 (Statements)
Sex, gender and diversity – Relevance to research projects
03.12.2020 – In basic research, regardless of the discipline, sex, gender and diversity dimensions can be crucial for planning and implementing research projects. The applicability of results could depend on a sufficient consideration of these dimensions.
Comment on: GL9 (Statements)