Promoting integrity in research and its publication

COPE provides leadership in thinking on publication ethics, practical resources to educate and support members, and offers a professional voice in current debates.

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Our core practices

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Core practices are the policies and practices journals and publishers need, to reach the highest standards in publication ethics. We include cases with advice, guidance for day-to-day practice, education modules and events on topical issues, to support journals and publishers fulfil their policies.

Cases

All the cases COPE has discussed since its inception in 1997 have been entered into a searchable database. This database now contains over 500 cases together with the advice given by COPE

eLearning

COPE's eLearning course on publication ethics. Individual modules designed to give editors a deeper understanding about publication ethics and practical guidance about how to detect, prevent and handle misconduct.

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This month's COPE Digest

The topic this month is Authorship: discussion on an authorship dispute discussion, new and updated cases from our recent forum, the latest publication ethics news, and we invite you to play a game with us.  Register for our upcoming North American Seminar "Challenges and solutions: issues of inclusivity and diversity in the humanities and social sciences". #PublicationEthics #Authorship

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