COPE provides leadership in thinking on publication ethics, practical resources to educate and support members, and offers a professional voice in current debates.
COPE's new Trustees will help shape the organisation for the benefit of our members. Vote for the candidates that best reflect your ambitions for COPE. A brief summary of each candidate is available to read before you vote.
Our core practices
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.
Events
23 September 2019
Join us for our European Seminar with guest speakers, including Cary Moskovitz, Director of Writing in the Disciplines at Duke University and the Principal Investigator on a 5-year study on text recycling. Register today! #TextRecycling #SelfPlagiarism
Summary of the Transparency 2025 panel discussion at the World Congress on Research Integrity with sessions on: transparency as the key to integrity; reasons for publishing in open access publications; arguments for and issues in open data; and concerns from an educational researcher's view. #WCRI2019
A summary and presentations from our seminar in Philadelphia "Challenges and solutions: Issues of inclusivity and diversity in the humanities and social sciences". #C0PE2019.
Our speakers have answers to the questions we couldn't get to during our Allegations of Misconduct webinar eg Q: Do all institutions worldwide have ORI? The recording of the webinar is also available for you to listen again.
News & opinion
Key findings from our research in which we wanted to better understand the publication ethics issues faced by arts, humanities, and social sciences journal editors and, with support from Routledge, carried out this research to assess current and future needs. See the key findings from this report and register to receive the white paper with full analysis of the research.
The June issue is packed with news and reviews on predatory publishing, authorship, transparency and new cases from the COPE Forum. Plus the monthly news and events update.
A Short Guide to Ethical Editing for New Editors. Becoming an editor of a journal is an exciting but daunting task. This short guide aims to summarise key issues and to provide links to useful resources. #C0PEGuidelines #EthicalOversight #PublicationEthics