Developing a Beta Site for a National Digital Library for Ethics in Science and Engineering

该项目提供的资源将在科学和工程界广泛使用。《美国创造机会以有意义地促进技术、教育和科学卓越(竞争)法案》要求，向国家科学基金会(NSF)提交的提案必须有一个计划，为参与拟议研究项目的本科生、研究生和博士后研究人员提供负责任和合乎道德的研究行为方面的适当培训和监督(SEC 7009)。它还要求提案详细描述将为博士后研究人员提供的指导活动(第7008节)。虽然NSF一直鼓励研究的道德行为，但《美国竞争法》明确了这一要求，并创造了更好地汇编和传播道德研究成果和相关教育材料的机会。因此，该项目开发了一个初步的在线资源，用于建立国家科学基金会打算支持的关于科学和工程伦理的数字图书馆。马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的测试版网站将是跨学科、多媒体和国际性的。目前存放道德材料的储存库、信息交换所和网站通常集中在一个学科领域。马萨诸塞大学测试版网站资源库将被用来检查协调和呈现包括社会科学在内的跨学科材料的有效方法，并将作为一个门户，引导教师、博士后和研究生研究人员访问广泛的伦理学资源。能够自由、快速、轻松地查找和审查用于指导、教育和培训未来一代科学家和工程师的材料，这一能力是无价的。一个测试版网站汇编了精选的材料，目的是使它们自由和方便地获取--同时结合Web 2.0和社交网络工具以提高可用性和有效性--是21世纪数字图书馆的起点。Beta网站使用各种媒体让年轻一代的科学家和工程师参与道德问题，并帮助教职员工以一种引人入胜的方式将道德概念融入课堂和实验室。最后，鉴于科学和技术研究的持续全球化，注重伦理的国际层面将有助于扩大影响。

This project provides resources that will be of wide use in the science and engineering community. The America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science (COMPETES) Act requires that proposals to the National Science Foundation (NSF) have a plan to provide appropriate training and oversight in the responsible and ethical conduct of research to undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers participating in the proposed research project (Sec 7009). It further requires that proposals describe in detail the mentoring activities that will be provided for postdoctoral researchers (Sec 7008). While NSF has always encouraged ethical conduct of research, the America COMPETES Act makes this requirement explicit and creates an opportunity to better compile and disseminate ethics research results and related education materials. Accordingly, this project develops an initial online resource for building a digital library on ethics in science and engineering that NSF intends to support. The University of Massachusetts Amherst beta site will be interdisciplinary, multi-media, and international. Current repositories, clearinghouses, and websites that house ethics materials generally focus on one disciplinary field. The University of Massachusetts beta site repository will be used to examine effective ways to coordinate and present materials from across disciplines, including the social sciences, and will act as a portal to direct faculty, post-doctoral, and graduate researchers to a wide range of ethics resources. The ability to freely, quickly and easily locate and review materials for use in mentoring, education and training of future generations of scientists and engineers is invaluable. A beta site that compiles selected materials with the objective of making them freely and easily accessible -- while incorporating Web 2.0 and social networking tools to enhance usability and effectiveness -- is the starting point for a digital library for the 21st Century. The beta site uses various media to engage a younger generation of scientists and engineers in ethics issues and to help faculty incorporate ethics concepts into classrooms and labs in an engaging way. Finally, a focus on the international dimensions of ethics will contribute to broad reach given the continuing globalization of scientific and technological research.