Composition
Mitch Miller (Chair)
Vilmalí López-Mejías
Olayinka Olatunji-Ojo
Description
The AUC subcommittee on Standards and Ethics focuses on current issues related to establishing and upholding the ethical standards of science, and disseminating scientific knowledge.
Ongoing activities and initiatives
- Survey selected journals and publishing houses regarding current ethical, operational, and financial challenges.
- Workshop for research administrators on supporting high-integrity scientific venues.
- Review of funding-agency requirements and funding provisions for open-access publishing.
- IUCr Congress Young Observers program.
- Conduct a survey on attitudes towards the inclusion of faculty structural scientists as co-authors on scientific publications to which they make substantial intellectual contributions.
Past initiatives
- Internal report on scientific-venue integrity (2018-2019).
- USNC/Cr public statement scientific-venue integrity (2019-2020).
- Review of F.A.I.R. practices in the crystallographic community (2020).
- Engaged the ACA, AIP, APS, ACS, and Protein Society in discussions on how to best promote scientific-venue integrity (2020).