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COPE Forum: 9 December 2015
The next COPE Forum meeting is being held on Wednesday 9 December 2015, 12noon–1.30pm (GMT). The COPE Forum will be held virtually via webinar. The agenda and materials can be downloaded here (PDF 478kb). The invitation to join the webinar is below. We can accommodate up to 100… - Forum discussion topics
COPE Forum 12 February 2016: Data sharing
Data sharing is increasingly viewed as an essential step in improving research transparency and reproducibility (Taichman et al, 2016; Vickers, 2006). There has been a lot of discussion on the imperative for data sharing in the biomedical arena, particularly of publically funded research. As a result, there are many disciplines where proposals for data sharing are being discussed. Publis… - Event
APE 2017 (Academic Publishing in Europe)
The theme is Publishing ethics: doing the right thing—doing things right Join the ongoing international debate about the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. This is APE number 12. Full details and to register… - News
SpotOn London 2012: Q&A with Dr Ginny Barbour
Leading up to the session on academic misconduct and fraud at SpotOn London, on 11-12 November, COPE chair Ginny Barbour did a Q&A for Nature. See here:… - Event
ALPSP Training Course: Publication Ethics: Fraud and Misconduct
Developed in collaboration with COPE, the second ALPSP training course on Publication Ethics: Fraud and Misconduct will be held on 12 February 2014 in London. COPE members are entitled to a discount on the non-ALPSP member rate. Click here for more information. … - News
Building an international register of ongoing systematic reviews: have your say
…style="margin-top:12.0pt">The register will be free of charge and will work in a similar way to clinical trials registers allowing researchers to prospectively record key features of their systematic reviews. Fuller details about the project have just been… - Event
COPE Mini UK Seminar 2014
COPE is delighted to announce a half-day mini UK Seminar, which will be held in collaboration with ISMTE (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), on Monday 13 October 2014 at Charles Darwin House, 12 Rogers Street, London WC1N 2JU, 1–4.30pm. For more details and to register, - Event
2018 Events
COPE Council members have been busy talking about COPE at meetings and conferences across the globe. - News
In the news: January 2018 Digest
…target="_blank">http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0187394 But maybe this will all be a thing of the past when automated tools are writing our scientific papers, in the not too distant future? - News
In the news: January 2019 Digest
…opinions include Bernard Rentier’s blog “Open Access: is Plan S heaven or hell ? How about giving it a dispassionate look?” https://bernardrentier.wordpress.com/2018/12/10/open… - News
Election of COPE Trustees 2019: Your vote counts!
…target="_blank">a brief summary of each candidate together with their applications. Voting is open until Wednesday 24 July 2019. Vote today… - News
An analysis of peer review cases brought to COPE from 1997-2016
Elizabeth Moylan, COPE Council member, presented this abstract as a poster at the COPE at the Peer Review Congress, 10-12 September 2017, Chicago. An analysis of peer review cases brought to COPE from 1997-2016 Download pdf of poster - News
December 2017 news
…Humans Run Experiments, a Robot Writes the Paper The future of automated scientific writing is upon us--and that's a good thing.Robot writes paper Fostering Integrity in Research A consensus study report of The… Resources and further reading
…Education (ICME-2013), 2-6 October 2013, Balaclava, MauritiusKusal Das, International Advisory Group 2nd International Scientific Practical Conference "World-class scientific journal: problems, solutions, preparation and inclusion into citation indices and reference databases", 24-26 September 2013 and Innovative…- News
COPE member survey: Diversity in Peer Review
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Election of COPE council members January 2014
Voting for the 2 vacancies on COPE council is now open and will remain open until Friday 24 January 2014. All Full and Associate Members are entitled to vote. Please note that there is only one vote per journal title, even for journals with multiple editors. 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.… - Event
International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication: free virtual symposium
September 14, 2021 3:00 – 4:30 PM GMT; 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET Free virtual symposium Advancing the science of scientific publishing Call for research and abstracts for the ninth peer review congress Join the Peer Review Congress organizers for this live Call for Research and Abstracts. Participation is free, but registration is required. … - Event
Retractions and correction of the scholarly record: panel discussion
12:15-13:45 EST (UTC -5) Dan Kulp, COPE Chair, is joining the panel discussion on retractions and correction of the scholarly record. The panel will discuss ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the retraction process. Dan joins other panellists: Susan Garfinkel, Ohio State University; Dan Larhammar, Uppsala University; Ivan Oransky, Retraction… EASE/ISMTE joint meeting
…Andre Van Steirteghem and council memebers Mirjam Curno and Irene Hames will be chairing the workshop. The workshop will take place on Tuesday 24 September. The full programme can be found here Full details on the meeting, including registration information, can be found here…