The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are currently undertaking the consensus study On Being a Scientist: An Updated and Online Guide to the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research. The study committee will produce a revised, expanded, and online version of the guide, which will update and expand on the 2009 edition to reflect changes in the current national and international research enterprise relevant to the conduct of research and to address professional conduct that limits or harms research talent and research advancement. To support this work, ad hoc panels will be appointed to develop specific sections of the guide.
The Panel on Openness and Security will produce content covering the following topics, with a focus on how they relate to and are affected by openness and security:

• Recognizing the potential impact of competing interests, commitments, and values;
• Recognizing and mitigating potential risks and promoting a culture of research security;
• Adopting open science and good community engagement practices;
• Supporting good practices for team science and international collaboration;
• Addressing intellectual property considerations (including patents, copyrights, trade secrets, fair use, international laws, and emerging technologies);
• Following required disclosures and policies related to research security and integrity compliance (including honest errors, negligence, corrections, consequences of failure to adhere to law and policy);
• Adopting physical- and cyber-security practices (including training, responsibilities, and consequences);
• Following ethical standards related to sharing research results before publication (including the use of preprints, peer review, authorship, citations, dissemination, new technologies, and communications);
• Following responsible practices for data governance, data stewardship, and data privacy (including the treatment of personally identifiable information and protected health information);
• Understanding the role of industry in research security and differences in requirements and approaches between industry and other research performers;
• Addressing the ethical issues with dual use research of concern (especially when fundamental research becomes a security issue); and
• Addressing the ethical issues with emerging technologies and their impact on the practices and norms of research.

The panel will make use of existing content from the third edition of On Being a Scientist (2009), update it where appropriate, and incorporate new information from existing literature and research. It will prepare the content for the online-first and modular format that the new edition of On Being a Scientist will use and will ensure the text is concise and easy-to-read.
The content produced by the Panel on Openness and Security will include: introductory information about the key topics and issues described above that are part of responsible conduct in research, sample scenarios to help readers understand the issues, and key questions for researchers to consider as they pursue science in a responsible manner. The panel’s product will be a guide for students and early-career researchers and will not contain any recommendations.
The material authored by the panel will not require approval by the full study committee; however, the panel will include 1 or 2 members who are also on the committee, and the rest of the committee will have opportunities to provide feedback and suggestions to the panel.
The final product will be subject to institutional review prior to online publication.