Research policies

Research support

Oslo University Hospital has a dedicated unit for research support. They provide information obtaining funding (grants), project execution, trials, publishing, biobanks, legal issues, biostatisics etc.

Research ethics

Research ethics is good scientific practice. All employees at MIK shall have a high degree of awareness of the ethical aspects of their research. At MIK, the group leaders are responsible for ensuring good scientific practice in their group, in line with the policies of OUS and UiO.

OUS: Research ethics at OUS, described in eHåndbok for OUS. Ethics at MIK.

UiO: Research ethics at UiO. UiO's 10 commandments for ethical practices.

Ethical guidelines

We expect all members of MIK to be honest in their scientific research and communications, and to work within the scope of the OUS and UiO research ethics framework.

Scientific publishing

Both UiO and OUS has an open access publishing policy, and wants scientific publications to be openly available for anyone at the time of publication. More on Open access from the University Library.

UiO's Open Access policy is in accordance with the Norwegian government's guidelines. MIK staff shall undertake to do their best to ensure that scientific articles deposited into the institutional repository can be made openly available as soon as possible.

All publications must be registred in Cristin.

At UiO, the authors are themselves responsible for registering the publications in Cristin and archiving a full-text version of the article in the institutional repository DUO, at the latest in January in the year after publication, but as soon as possible. Make sure all authors and their correct affiliations, as indicated in the publication, are registered correctly in Cristin. Any grants and appropriate grant numbers must also be registered with the article in Cristin.

At OUS, the Cristin superuser at MIK (Torbjørn) will make sure all publications are properly registered in Cristin and archived in DUO. Please notify the Cristin superuser if you publish in journals not indexed by PubMed.

Publika can be used to get an overview of our publications and relevant journals.

Authorships

MIK aims to follow the ICMJE recommendations, more commonly known as the Vancouver convention, on authorship as closely as possible.

MIK strongly encourages authors to use the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) in scientific publications to outline the contributions of all authors.

Documentation of research

Electronic lab journal: MIK has started to use an elecrtronic lab journal (ELN). More information.
Lab books: MIK uses numbered laboratory journals to document experiments. The books must be signed out.
Guidelines for use of lab books: MIK adheres to the guidelines of OUS and UiO regarding lab journals. Please see the medical faculty's guidelines for use of lab journals.
Project tracking: It is important to store raw data, document procedures used and handling of data and material in agreement with your group leader.

Data policy

Forskpro

Forskpro is a UiO registry used to obtain an dynamic overview of all ongoing research projects. All medical and health research projects carried out at UiO should be registered there.

For help with Forskpro contact Medical faculty research administration.

Approvals and authorizations

Certain types of research needs approvals and authorization from governmental entities and here are links to those most relevant at MIK.

Overview of approvals needed in medical research.