Guiding principles for hydrologists conducting interdisciplinary research and fieldwork with participants

Ethical research in psychology: revised ethical principles for conducting research with human participants.

A methodology for conducting interdisciplinary social research

The Vienna Circle idea that science is an interdisciplinary enterprise leads to the question of how the knowledge of the natural sciences can be used to further understanding in the social sciences. Analysis of the practice of social research shows there is no easy answer to this question. Ideologies colour the use of exact knowledge in social research methods; even in the natural sciences ideo...

Conducting research with minimally verbal participants with autism spectrum disorder.

A growing number of research groups are now including older minimally verbal individuals with autism spectrum disorder in their studies to encompass the full range of heterogeneity in the population. There are numerous barriers that prevent researchers from collecting high-quality data from these individuals, in part because of the challenging behaviors with which they present alongside their v...

Issues and Guiding Principles for Opening Governmental Judicial Research Data

The opening of data is considered to provide many benefits. However, opening up data by public bodies is a complex and ill-understood activity. Although many public bodies might be willing to open up their data, they lack any systematic guidance. In this paper, guidance is provided by investigating the publishing processes at the Dutch Research and Documentation Centre (WODC), which owns govern...

Guiding principles for research involving animals and human beings.

THE AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY (APS) endorses the Recommendations from the Declaration of Helsinki and the Guiding Principles in the Care and Use of Animals and insists that all investigations involving humans and all animal experimentation reported in its publications be conducted in conformity with these principles. Editors/Associate Editors are expected to refuse papers in which evidence...