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Newsletter
This month we have updates on projects COPE is involved in: retraction taxonomy, and text recycling. We summarise an issue that was raised by an author who published in a COPE member journal some years ago and describe how the concern was resolved when COPE, the publisher and the author worked together. Ethical considerations around book publishing will be discussed at our next Forum and we include discussion points, cases and comparisons between journals and books in Digest. Plus the publication ethics news roundup.
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.
Welcome to our new Council Members of COPE: Siri Lunde Strømme, Stephanie Kinnan, Paul Graham Fisher, Kim Eggleton, Sarah Eaton. We asked each of them a few questions to get to know them a little better.
Read the latest publication ethics news, gathered by COPE, with articles on displaying the self-reported data of editors' gender, pre-registration of clinical trials, launch of Chinese Equator Centre, misconduct in Russia, and more.
COPE is currently engaged in the retraction taxonomy aspect of the University of Illinois project “Reducing the inadvertent spread of retracted science: shaping a research and implementation agenda”. Jodi Schneider updates us on the project.
The Text Recycling Research Project, previously presented to COPE members at a seminar and a webinar, has published a number of research articles in the past year. Cary Moskovitz gives an update.
Guidance & discussion
In response to an increase in cases and queries about author name changes after article publication, COPE formed a working group to develop guidance. There are complexities involved in changing names after article publication. COPE is working on guidance to make the process easier, and more consistent for authors, editors and publishers. We welcome feedback on the editorial.
An issue of concern around name changes was submitted to COPE through the Facilitation & Integrity subcommittee. it was resolved when COPE, the publisher and the author worked together. Iratxe Puebla summarises the process.
This month we have updates on two projects in which COPE has been participating: the Text Recycling Research Project, previously presented to COPE members at a seminar and a webinar; the University of Illinois Sloan Funded Project on reducing citations of retracted publications.
We bring together support and guidance on issues that have come about during this crisis. The posts include articles on how authors, editors and reviewers are handling their work during this period and guidelines developed in response to the changing environment and workflow.