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Welcome. You have arrived at the online community of the OpenSeminar in Research Ethics (OSRE). We are a group of researchers interested in the ethical issues surrounding our work. Our main purpose is to assist junior researchers as they become acculturated into the scholarly community. Membership in the OSRE community is free. We encourage you to work through our asynchronous, self-directed, doctoral-level course, the OpenSeminar in Research Ethics.

There is no charge for the course.

Why join the OSRE community? To lend your efforts to the strengthening of the research community world-wide. We believe research will be more effective, productive, and socially-responsible if researchers with similar interests are networked together.

Toward this end, we make a point of helping our new student members to find at least two online colleagues:

• Faculty Mentor. This person is an instructor in the student's field--and, ideally, in the student's department--who is willing to provide guidance by answering emails from the student concerning issues in research ethics.
• Peer Mentor. This person is a graduate student in the member's field who has completed the OSRE course and is willing to help the member think through substantive research ethics questions and navigate through the online course.

We encourage faculty joining us to consider serving as OSRE faculty mentors to OSRE students. We also encourage students who have completed the OSRE course to consider serving as OSRE peer mentors to other students.

We value your privacy. Please read carefully our policies and terms of use. All members must agree to abide by the most rigorous moral standards of online behavior. Of course, as a scholarly community, we look forward to discussing what those standards should be.

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