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COPE North American seminar 13 August 2014
Register for COPE's 5th North American seminar, which will be held in collaboration with ISMTE (International Society of Managing & Technical Editors), on Wednesday 13 August 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Philadelphia at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. For more details and to register, see here… - Event
5th World Conference on Research Integrity
COPE will be represented at the forthcoming World Conference on Research Integrity. COPE Chair, Ginny Barbour, will be chairing a symposium on behalf of COPE entitled “Publishing and research ethics as wicked problems”. The session will discuss how research and publication ethics issues can be thought of as intertwined wicked problems – that is problems which are "difficult or impossible… - Event
COPE Australian Seminar 2015
The 4th COPE Australian Seminar will take place in Melbourne on Friday 6 November 2015. The theme of the seminar is “Publication Ethics in the Australian Context”, and will include topics of specific interest to Australian editors and journals as well as a session on authorship issues and developments. For more details and to register, - Event
ACSE webinar: Principles of Transparency update
Sunday 5 February, 9.30am to 10.30am Dubai Time Zone (UTC +4) Find out what's new in the 4th version of the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Speakers at the Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE) webinar are COPE Council Members Jiayi Xu and Trevor Lane. Register today … - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2017: Publication ethics, the last 20 years
For COPE's 20th Anniversary, the 2017 COPE European Seminar invited Liz Wager to look back at the last twenty years of publication ethics. … - News
COPE North American Seminar and Forum 2012
COPE is pleased to announce its 4th North American Seminar and Forum. The COPE Forum will take place on the afternoon of 18 October (2–5 pm) followed by a whole day Seminar on 19 October.The theme of this year’s Seminar is “Correcting the literature”. More details can be found here.… - Event
The 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics.
The IEEE DSAA’2021 Industry track aims to highlight the challenges of putting together production-grade software solutions to different business verticals based on data science. Our goal is to promote the debate, the exchange of ideas and/or collaborations on how to add business value to society through data science. The focus of this track is to put forward business realizations throug… - Event
COPE North American Seminar "Ethics in peer review"
Register now for COPE's 7th North American Seminar, free for COPE members. This will be held in collaboration with ISMTE. The theme of this year's seminar is “Ethics in peer review”. Editors, publishers, authors and all those interested in publication ethics are… - Event
International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) Annual Meeting
ISMPP is offering a 10% registration discount to COPE members for its 16th Annual Meeting, The Evolving Role of the Scientific Communications Professional in an Open World, 20-22 April 2020, in Washington, DC. Check out the meeting at www.ismpp.org/annual-meeting, and enter 16AMCOPE in the… - Event
Medical Editors Short Course
Now in its 16th year, this course will enable editors to make their journal more successful. It includes how to develop journals to raise the quality of submissions, sharpen focus, improve relationships and efficiencies with authors, other editors and reviewers (and publishers!) and how to ensure that the journal is delivering something that readers want to read (and cite). The course… - News
COPE offers two scholarships to attend COPE's European seminar
COPE member editors from developing countries are invited to apply for one of two scholarships to attend COPE’s European seminar and annual general meeting, to be held in London on March 16th, 2012. This will cover two nights’ hotel accommodation in London and round-trip (economy class) airfare. Interested editors should send a short CV (no more than 4 pages) and letter of application… - Event
EQUATOR Annual Lecture 2013
5th EQUATOR Annual Lecture will be presented by Professor Kay Dickersin, Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Director of the Center for Clinical Trials, and Director of the US Cochrane Center (USCC). Date: Monday 9 September 2013, 18:00 – 19:00 Venue: Swissotel, Chicago, USA (Peer Review Congress venue) Information:… - Seminars and webinars
Publication ethics in an open world
…4th World STM Journal Forum: Publication ethics Dan Kulp, COPE Chair, was invited to speak at the 4th World STM Journal Forum organised by the Chinese Association of Science & Technology (CAST), July 2021. Dan spoke about the some of the current issues around publication ethics in the industry such as: authorship issues; fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism; image… - Event
Next COPE Forum 6 September 2011
…Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), 5-11 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8SH (http://www.rcpch.ac.uk/how-find-us/how-find-us). All COPE members are welcome to attend the meeting, whether or not they are presenting a case. Download the agenda and materials - News
COPE shortlisted for Publons Sentinel Award: outstanding advocacy, innovation or contribution to #PeerReview
…--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We're delighted to be shortlisted for the Publons Sentinel Award for outstanding advocacy, innovation or contribution to scholarly peer review. The winner will be announced on Tuesday 19th September.… - News
Editing Medical Journals: Short Course
Date: 10-12 November 2010 Location: Oxford, UK Website: http://www.pspconsulting.org Now in its 13th year, this short course for Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Board members and managing editors helps build skills and awareness of what it means to be a journal editor and how to make your journal successful. The course covers: how to… - Event
Update on publication guidelines and insights from AMWA, EMWA and ISMPP
The International Society of Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) invites members of COPE to a special educational webinar focused on medical publication guidelines, on Wednesday, January 28th, 11:00am – 12:30pm EST. The webinar will feature representatives from ISMPP, the American Medical Writers Association ( - Event
EASE Conference
…gender policy, peer review, data citation, reducing waste in research and freelance editing. COPE are running a half day workshop on Publication Ethics and will be participating in a session on Data Availability and Citation. More information… - News
COPE at the Second International Summit on Medical Research and Publication & The First International Forum on Frontiers in Medicine
…16th 2018. The full day meeting attracted over 100 researchers, publishing professionals and graduate students. Jason addressed the importance of ethical research and publication, the needs of improving awareness of responsibility of the whole research community, as well as the best practices and resources developed by COPE and the community over years. … - News
Changes to data regulations: GDPR
On 25th May, an update to the 1993 Data Protection Act will come into force. This is known as the GDPR. You have probably heard of it as most of the websites, apps and services that we all use on a day-to-day basis are updating their privacy policies and sending out notices like this one. COPE collects the personal details of people in association with a journal or publisher becoming…