Only You Can Prevent Research Integrity Fires!: What Practices Contribute to Improving Research Integrity and how can you Help?

Research communications has a role to play in ensuring the integrity of the research ecosystem. Whether you work on editorial practices, production, or even post-production, there are numerous checks and processes that can be applied to ensure the validity of content. Importantly, this landscape is rapidly evolving and new tools for ensuring overall quality of the scholarly record. Integrity supporting tools, such as CrossRef's Retractions Watch dataset, the STM Integrity Hub and NISO's new Recommended Practice on Communications of Retractions and Expressions of Concern (CREC) can all help keep your corner of the research ecosystem safe. Learn more about these tools during this critically important session on the safety of your authors' research-content. Don't let the spark of some bad practice cause a four-alarm fire in your organization. Remember: Only you can prevent research integrity fires!

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