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Diversity, equity, inclusivity and accessibility: COPE commentary
…in 2024. The current site doesn’t support the diversity of languages used by our members. For example, it doesn’t properly display names which include certain diacritics. So we’re changing our fonts to make sure that all our members’ names display as they should. We know that the website search isn’t as good as it should be, so this will improve on the new website. Curated collections on topics… Text Recycling: Forum discussion topic March 2013
…Where overlap is considered to be minor, authors may be asked to re-write overlapping sections, and cite their previous article(s). More significant overlap may result in rejection of the manuscript. Where the overlap includes data, Editors should handle cases according to the COPE flowchart for dealing with suspected- News
Case discussion: Suspected plagiarism
…must have clear instructions on obtaining acceptable permissions to use previously copyrighted material in a paper. To re-publish a figure, a copyrighted survey tool or patented methodology in a new manuscript, the author needs to know who holds the IP to the original work and the scope of the permission needed, the latter of which may depend upon the publishing plan (e.g., use in on-line or print… - News
In the news: June 2018 Digest
…href="https://orcid.org/blog/2018/05/09/orcid-japan-re-thatching-roof" target="_blank">https://orcid.org/blog/2018/05/09/orcid-japan-re-thatching-roof Diversity Dr. Kris Sealey describes a research study for which she is the primary investigator that focuses on “how issues of diversity might be addressed at the level of producing the scholarly object”. They seek to determine best practices and a code of publication ethics in the humanities. … - Forum discussion topics
Ethical aspects of conference proceedings
…signal good ethical practices, for example, when a proceedings journal is seeking inclusion on an indexing site. However, publishers approached with papers that have originated in conference proceedings may find it difficult to establish the nature and extent of the peer review applied and, thus, to decide whether they should be re-reviewed. Conference proceedings can take many forms, from… - News
Case Discussion: Possible plagiarism
…href="https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">Retraction Guidelines are currently for journals and despite the lack of standard guidelines for dealing with chapter corrections/retractions, a common procedure is to use a publisher or book website to notify readers of post-publication changes. These changes could be incorporated into a future reprinting (re-issue or new impression) or a new… - News
Artificial intelligence and authorship
…judgement, finance or the scoring of individuals are concerned: areas which are represented in the portfolios of many academic publishers. Bloom’s company disclaimer goes on to say that ‘Indirect users should be made aware when the content they’re working with is created by the LLM.’ In fact, in January 2023 WAME released an early response to the use of LLMs… - News
Where next in peer review? Part 1: COPE commentary
…which use patient peer review, results-free review (where reviewers do not see study results until after the initial assessment stage), and re-review opt out (more information on these processes can be found on their website). The publisher Frontiers lists