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The Research Integrity Officer or designee is delegated responsibility for preparing and maintaining all documentation gathered or generated during an inquiry and investigation including the institutional record and all sequestered evidence including physical objects (regardless of whether the evidence is part of the institutional record). All records shall be maintained in a secure manner for seven years after completion of the UNMC case or the completion of any federal proceeding involving the research misconduct allegation, whichever is later, unless custody has been transferred to the federal agency or the ORI or other federal agency advises otherwise in writing. If a person involved in a research misconduct proceeding for research that does not involve PHS or other federal funds whose data, documents, physical objects, or other materials were sequestered for purposes of the proceeding requests a return of such data, documents, physical objects, or other materials at the end of the proceeding, the Research Integrity Officer or designee will determine whether there are funding entity record retention requirements and whether substantially equivalent copies can be created and retained such that return is permissible.  Federal funding and oversight agencies will be given access to the records upon request.

The decisions made by UNMC at assessment, inquiry, or investigation regarding an allegation of research misconduct are not subject to appeal by any complainant, respondent, or other individual.