News & Opinion

Ginny Barbour was recently one of two guest speakers for iThenticate's Plagiarism Webcast Series: 5 biggest challenges from the front lines of scholarly publishing,  You can listen to Ginny discussing the challenges facing scholarly publishing, or see the transcript, here.  

COPE is very pleased to announce the appointment of four new COPE council members, following our recent elections: Mohammad Abdollahi, Deborah Poff, Michael Wise and Adrian Ziderman. Mohammad Abdollahi is editor in chief of DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Mohammad is based in Tehran, Iran. Deborah Poff is editor in chief of the Journal of Academic Ethics. Deborah is based in Brandon, Canada. Michael Wise is editor in chief of Microbial Informatics and Experimentation and is based in Western Australia. Adrian Ziderman is editor in chief of the International Journal of Manpower, and is based in Ramat Gan, Israel. We very much look forward to working with them.

The presentations, posters and meeting report from the 2013 COPE Asia-Pacific seminar are now available online. The theme of the semianr was 'Correcting the LIterature' and includes presentations from Helen McLean, legal counsel for John Wiley & Sons; John Loadsman, Editor of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care; Paul Taylor & Daniel Barr, from the Office for Research Ethics and Integrity at the University of Melbourne; and Geoffrey Bilder, from CrossMark

Voting for the 4 vacancies on COPE council is now open and will remain open until Monday 25 February 2013. All Full and Associate Members are entitled to vote. The vote should be cast by the Member editor, who is usually the Editor-in-Chief, or otherwise by the nominated contact for the journal. See here for more details and to cast your vote.