Granting councils release new research integrity policy

Canada's federal granting councils have released a new Tri-Agency Framework: Responsible Conduct of Research that allows the agencies to publicly names those researchers "confirmed to have engaged in a serious breach of Agency policy". The new framework comes after several high-profile instances in which the names of researchers who breached policy were not divulged due to privacy constraints. The framework replaces existing integrity policy and related documents, including the Tri-Policy Statement: Integrity in Research and Scholarship (1994), the Framework for Tri-Council Review of Institutional Policies Dealing with Integrity in Research (1996) and the Tri-Agency Process for Addressing Allegations of Non-compliance with Tri-Agency Policies (2010)....