FIRE Araştırma Eğitim Ltd. Şti. aims to make scientific research less of a bureaucratic, financial, personal challenge, inequality enhancer entity to more open, encompassing, progressive, agile without compromising from the quality and advancement it already brought and likely to bring.

FIRE Araştırma Eğitim Ltd. Şti. sees itself as a key player in discovering new information, knowledge, insight, training scientific researchers, and making high-quality scientific research more accessible and available to all. It will conduct research studies, enhance other researchers' works, fund research directly, and create/provide training/education material.

You can reach the Gender Equality Plan of FIRE Araştırma Eğitim Ltd. Şti. from the link file below:

You can reach the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Statement of FIRE Araştırma Eğitim Ltd. Şti. from the link file below:

A separate guidance and statement document will be prepared for this section. Currently, concise image/table captions, clear writing, color-blind friendly figures are strongly recommended.

One place to consult is W3C's Web Access Initiative's Web Content Accessibility Guide:

Another place to follow is Cornell University's arXiv's webinars on the subject.

Data Availability: The best and easiest way is making the data available in a repository or directly in supplementary materials. When the critical data simply can't be made available on the grounds of its terms of use from the data source, how this data was obtained with which options and parameters should be completely and clearly explained. Obscuring how to retrieve the study data or other insecure, potentially jealous approaches of reporting will definitely undermine the dissemination of the knowledge, that is, the whole point of making the actual reporting of a scientific research.

Method Availability: Again, unclear methodology and software use is unfortunately not uncommon. One should make the methodology so clear that a reader and/or reviewer might be able to reproduce the SAME results using the input data and the corresponding method.

Software Selection: Unless it is impossible to do so, openly and freely available, and even better, open-source software should be preferred. Subscription or payment-based software or similar stuff might be more user-friendly and have extensive support, yet not only it starts to be a black-box methodology, but also it has a severely reduced reproducibility by fellow researchers and reviewers.

Publication/report availability: "Free as in beer" respectable journals with open access policies should be a preferred way of scientific result communication while conducting a research study with FIRE Araştırma Eğitim Ltd. Şti. resources. For conference presentations, at the very least the abstract should be available with clear indication of methods and data sources.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union-sourced regulation. Full-text can be retrieved from here.

For the citizens of Türkiye, "Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu" is a close counterpart of GDPR.

It is crucial to comply with these regulations as not only is it a good practice, but also serious penalties and fines might originate from potentially harmless-looking misconducts. A guideline will be prepared with the support of expert attorneys on this critical issue. Until that time, reading the full texts from their sources is the safest option.

Moreover, additional licenses, copyright issues, and terms of use should be carefully checked for every data, code, software, text utilization. As for FIRE Araştırma Eğitim Ltd. Şti., the materials used and/or published are either self-sourced or public license, and expected to be so.

As of March 2024, FIRE Araştırma Eğitim Ltd. Şti. finds it adequate to follow the guidelines of Council of Science Editors on research publication-specific ethical issues in reporting scientific outputs. Full text of the up-to-date version can be retrieved below:

In general, plagiarism, data fabrication and falsification, improper or nonexistent citation/acknowledgment of scientific research and data, incorrect authorship assignment practices (e.g., authorship without any contribution to the study), and many other problems, in fact against common sense, are prohibited from the Company's perspective, too. Data, publication, image, or any other resources' copyright and licenses should be in line with the use purposes of them in the corresponding research study.