Confidentiality
Protect project information, credentials, unpublished findings, partner information, and any permitted data. Use information only for the assigned purpose and report incidents promptly.
Researcher agreements
Network membership carries rights and responsibility.
These public terms guide registration. Final contractual versions will be multilingual, counsel-reviewed, and electronically signed through Wix/Jotform.
ASSOCIATE
Associate Researcher
Students, clinicians, engineers, analysts, and professionals building or applying research competence under defined supervision.
Responsibilities
✓ Complete orientation and role-specific training
✓ Work within assigned tasks and up to the stated weekly commitment
✓ Maintain timely project records and communicate barriers
✓ Participate in quality review and required corrections
✓ Use the Associate title only while status is current and verifiable
Rights
✓ Clear scope, deadlines, supervision, and feedback
✓ Appropriate credit for verified contributions
✓ Safe routes to raise ethics, integrity, or conduct concerns
✓ Access limited to what the role requires
✓ A completion certificate when published conditions are met
CORE TERMS
Terms that protect the network and its members.
Ethics and integrity
Follow the approved protocol, research-ethics requirements, data rules, reporting standards, and microscopIA integrity procedures. Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, undisclosed use, or inappropriate journal contact may end participation.
Contribution and authorship
Authorship depends on a qualifying intellectual contribution, manuscript participation, final approval, and accountability. Membership, payment, title, or attendance alone does not confer authorship.
Intellectual property
Background intellectual property remains with its owner. Project outputs, inventions, software, datasets, licences, publication rights, and any assignment or management authority require a separate project-specific written agreement; this general membership page does not transfer ownership.
Independent status
Network membership is not employment, salary, benefits, agency, or authority to bind microscopIA unless a separate written employment or services contract expressly says so.
Professional conduct
Work respectfully, protect participants and partners, meet agreed deadlines, disclose conflicts, use only approved systems, and seek guidance when scope or authority is uncertain.
Operational template only. Local counsel must review governing law, privacy, data processing, confidentiality, inventions, moral rights, termination, dispute resolution, and electronic-signature requirements before signature.