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Since 1970 ORC has had guidelines for negotiating contracts. The Report of the Committee on Criteria for Acceptance of Sponsored Research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences sets up seven principles to which research agreements must conform. The report calls for guarantees of freedom to publish results, and prohibition of research "which carries security classification, or requires security clearance of University personnel...
Wilson says that in his work with research grants he has not found that ORC reduced the red tape as Barstow asserts...
...ORC has a black loose-leaf notebook filled with records of research contracts and grants for projects in the University's ten faculties. All the projects are public and anyone interested can find out the type of research a professor is doing, how much money he has to work with and how long he has been doing the research. Rules like this guarantee that no classified research is done at Harvard...
...ORC has no say over whether research grants are accepted or rejected, nor over the type of research project undertaken. (Those decisions are made by the individual researchers when they apply for grants and the research committees of each academic department.) But most of the research at Harvard tends to be in the sciences...
Richard Wilson, professor of Physics, is one Harvard faculty member very involved in the type of project ORC typically handles...