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Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Research Integrity (ORI)

Infographics

Forensic Tools (ex. Droplets)

Findings of Research Misconduct Case Summaries

Newsletters

"The Lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct"
Interactive movie on Research Misconduct

"The Research Clinic" 
The interactive training video educates clinical and social researchers on the importance of appropriately protecting research participants and avoiding research misconduct. 

Forensically 
Free tools for forensic image analysis

28 Guidelines at a Glance on Avoiding Plagiarism 
(includes self-plagiarism)

Plagiarism Tools

Plagiarisma
Free online plagiarism checker

iThenticate
UK has a subscription

Plagiarism Check.org
Helps detect similarities and produces unbiased results; UK does not have a subscription, please see the Pricing tab on this website for information

Google Scholar
Free online resource; provides a broad search of scholarly literature

SimTexter
Side-by-side text-comparison tool; free online resource

Scientific Integrity Watchdogs

PubPeer

Retraction Watch

X: Elisabeth Bik@MicrobiomDigest
Tweets about microbiome research, duplicated images, and other cases of misconduct in biomedical literature

Science Integrity Digest
A blog about scientific integrity by Elisabeth Bik

Other

Grammarly
Free online resource; checks grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.

University of Kentucky Good Research Practice Resource Center