Compendium for Setting-up and Maintaining New Ethics Documentation Centres

This compendium provides practical advice for setting-up and maintaining new ethics documentation centres (EDCs):

• What is an EDC?
• What do EDCs do?
• Advice on sustainable structures, staffing and financial aspects
• Co-operation with other EDCs
• General dos and don'ts

The ETHICSWEB Primer - A Short Guide to Ethics Documentation

The aim of the ETHICSWEB Primer is to serve as a guide for various target groups with an interest in documentation within the field of ethics in science. In particular, the intended audience includes ethics documentation centres (EDCs). It provides some general advice concerning documentation activities, but it also describes how to make the data accessible via the ETHICSWEB infrastructure:

• Selecting documents to collect and index
• Setting-up a database / data entry via the ETHICSWEB portal
• Cataloguing and indexing with controlled vocabularies like thesauri
• Integration of local databases into the ETHICSWEB portal

Legal Principles in ETHICSWEB - A Short Public Guide

This document outlines the basic legal principles that the ETHICSWEB members agree to follow, and that form the basis of what one can expect when joining ETHICSWEB or using the portal.