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Legal and regulatory restrictions of unpublished data: dealing with concerns
… This flowchart has been developed by the FORCE11 and COPE Research Data Publishing Working Group. Key points Legal or regulatory concerns and datasets may relate to: Disputes over intellectual property. A breach of a national or legal… - Flowcharts
Scientific rigour of unpublished data: dealing with concerns
…href="https://publicationethics.org/news/cope-collaboration-force11-working-group">FORCE11 and COPE Research Data Publishing Working Group. Key points Concerns may relate to errors or gaps in the dataset as a result of: Unintentional errors Incomplete datasets Data manipulation Related resources Scientific rigour… - Flowcharts
Legal and regulatory restrictions of published data: dealing with concerns
… This flowchart has been developed by the FORCE11 and COPE Research Data Publishing Working Group. Key points Legal or regulatory concerns and datasets may relate to: Disputes over intellectual property. A breach of a national or legal… - Event
Open Access and Medical Publishing: ISMPP
ISMPP invites COPE members to attend a special 90-minute ISMPP U educational webinar, Open Access and Medical Publishing, on Wednesday, January 30, at 11 am EST/4 pm in the UK. The webinar is open to all and free to COPE members. Expert speakers representing different stakeholder views – industry (Shire), funder (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), publisher (Wiley and American… - Seminars and webinars
Seminar 2021: Ethical practice in research data publication - challenges, lessons and opportunities
…dataset. To respond to these emerging challenges, the FORCE11 Research Data Publishing Ethics Working Group, in collaboration with COPE, is developing guidelines and resources to support journal editors, data repositories, and institutions in the handling of ethics cases related to research data. Back to top Introduction - News
In the news: December Digest
…of "open access". https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/11/11/if… - News
Dates of future COPE meetings
2011 Monday 7 March 2011 (deadline for cases 21 February) Monday 6 June 2011 (deadline for cases 23 May) Tuesday 6 September 2011 (deadline for cases 23 August) Tuesday 6 December 2011 (deadline for cases 22 November) All Forum meetings are 3–5pm, in the Council Chamber, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 5-11 Theobalds Road,… - Event
Next COPE Forum 5 March 2012
The next COPE Forum meeting will take place on Monday 5 Mach 2012, 3pm to 5pm. The meeting will take place at The Royal College of 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… - Event
COPE Forum: dates for 2018
…Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. Monday 26 February 2018, 4PM (GMT) Monday 30 April 2018, 4PM (BST) Wednesday 8 August 2018, 1.30-4.30PM (EST) (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) at the INANE Conference Monday 5 November 2018, 4PM… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: February 2021
…href="https://www.force11.org/group/research-data-publishing-ethics" target="_blank">FORCE11 Research Data Publishing Ethics Working Group to address the need for guidelines and resources that support authors, data curators and editors in handling research data sharing. In this issue of Digest, Iratxe Puebla, co-leader of the FORCE11 Working Group, and Matt Hodgkinson, COPE Council representative, give some - Case
Publication of private data
An article was submitted for publication. This was a survey of research activity in a specialist area and included, among other things, research funding amounts from each institution. This led to a sort of 'league table'. The information was provided by the responding director of the specialty area or head of school/research group of each institution. The cover letter stated this is for researc… - 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 ( - News
Data Sharing Policies in Scholarly Publications: Interdisciplinary Comparisons
…to be ready by early next year. Data sharing policies in scholarly publications: interdisciplinary comparisons … - News
Expressions of Concern: Forum discussion topic
…and what happens if the concerns are later found not to be valid. This will be discussed at the start of the next COPE Forum on Monday 26 February. Please leave any comments on our discussion document, whether or not you are planning… - Case
The undeclared competing interest
An author wrote us a letter for publication on the importance of doing research on a long established drug. He did not declare any competing interest, but we were later informed that he was conducting a trial of the drug funded by a pharmaceutical company. We approached him and asked him to declare his competing interest. Have we done the right thing? Should we do more than simply ask him to de… - Event
COPE Forum: Monday 5 November 2018
…18-11 Increased number of casual submissions 18-12 A pre-submission inquiry with a bribe 18-13 Self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing 18-14 Authorship conflict 18-15 Peer reviewer contacted by author 18-16 Data fabrication in a rejected manuscript 18-17 Possible plagiarism 18-18 Victim of article theft wants correction to list… - News
Mediterranean Editors and Translators Meeting 2018
COPE council member Iria del Río shares her experience of the #METM18 conference where she was a keynote speaker, workshop presenter and attendee on the blog - Webform
COPE authorship workshop 10 February 2021
…REGISTRATION FOR THIS WORKSHOP IS CLOSED Online cases workshop for COPE members Wednesday 10 February 2021 15:00-16.30pm (GMT); 10.00-11.30am (EST) The authorship workshop is free for COPE members but spaces are limited to the first 50 applicants. Only those registered will be… - News
Welcome new COPE Council Members
A warm welcome to five new Council Members to COPE. We asked each Council Member a few questions to get to know them a little better; read more on their profile pages. - Case
Extensive plagiarism
An article published in Journal A in 2003 contains extensive, almost verbatim, unattributed quotations from an article published in Journal B in 2001. The editor asked a member of the editorial team to compare the two articles line by line, and there appears to be a high degree of overlap without any reference to the original article in Journal B. The authors of the article and the editor of Jo…