This Guide takes the medical education scholar through a journey in which issues of ethics are discussed in all stages of digital scholarship: research preparation, research subject monitoring and data gathering, securing one's data and balancing security against accessibility , anonymising textual and non textual data, third party identifiability in digital data, writing one's own work including plagiarism and paper mills , copyright including issues of Creative Commons and royalty free , accessing inaccessible reference material, ethically citing electronic material, and manuscript submission including issues of selecting journals, open access and data sharing . ...