Presentation

ICB created the Office of Good Scientific Practices (EBPC/ICB), as well as the Code of Good Scientific Practices, both approved by the Congregation of the Institute, on September 6, 2016 (read the current ordinance here).

The Office of Good Scientific Practices is a collegiate body and is composed of the Presidents of the Undergraduate Committee (CG), Postgraduate Committee (CPG), Research Committee (CPq), Ethics Committee for Research with Human Beings (CEPSH), Committee on Ethics in the Use of Animals (CEUA), by the Coordinator of the Nucleus of Strategies in Experimental Planning and Reproducibility (NEPER), and by a representative of graduate students.

The Vice Dean of ICB is the top official in dealing with issues pertaining to the Code of Good Scientific Practices and the EBPC, being replaced by the Dean in cases of absence, unavailability or conflict of interests

EBPC aims to provide training, support and advice to researchers, students and laboratory technicians, on good scientific practices and the dissemination of guidelines and methods for their applications.

The Office will also be responsible for carrying out verifications and gathering evidence, as well as formally reporting its conclusions to the Vice Dean, whenever there are complaints of possible misconduct and incorrect practices in scientific activity by members of the ICB community.

ICB Laboratory Notebook

According to the Code of Good Scientific Practices of this Institute, it is mandatory for ICB researchers of all levels and categories to register their research activities in the ICB laboratory notebook, following the rules described in ICB Ordinance No. 16/2017 , of June 27, 2017, and the ICB Library is responsible for issuing, cataloging and incorporating copies of the notebook into the collection and archiving them, five years after the completion of the project or at the discretion of the person in charge of the laboratory where the research was carried out.

These notebooks are for:

• • ICB professors;
  • technical staff who carry out research activities;
  • graduate students from ICB courses and from other units who develop their work at ICB;
  • ICB scientific initiation students;
  • researchers and interns from different categories and levels of activity;
  • visiting researchers at ICB.

To request the Laboratory Notebook at the ICB Library, the researcher must write to bibsau@icb.usp.br, attaching the Term of Acknowledgment and Commitment, completed and signed by them and by the professor responsible for the laboratory to which they are associated.

According to the Term of Acknowledgment and Commitment, the requesting researcher agrees to conduct their work in accordance with the ICB Code of Good Scientific Practices, and be aware of the Rules for the use of the laboratory notebook and USP Resolution 7035, from 2014.

What is a laboratory notebook ?

• • It’s a permanent chronological record of scientific experiments. It is the legal documentation of the experiments and their results. It must present all the ideas and procedures carried out during the development of a scientific project.

Objectives of a laboratory notebook

• • To keep a daily log of every experiment you do, or plan to do..
  • To safeguard your intellectual property rights and those of the Institution. The data may be used by patent offices and in disputes over intellectual property rights.
  • It may provide defensive evidence against accusations of research fraud or plagiarism.
  • To allow successive researchers working on the same project to resume it from the moment you left and to reproduce its results.
  • If something goes wrong, it should allow you to conclude what happened.
  • It should serve as a basis for determining the reproducibility of a previous assay.
  • To serve as a starting point for writing publications, dissertations and theses.

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Presenting the Laboratory Notebook