Essential emails

Dear colleague,
 

Just a reminder that voting for the 3 vacancies on COPE council will close on Friday 26 November 2010. All Full and Associate Members are entitled to vote. Please note that there is only one vote per journal title, even for journals with multiple editors. The vote should be cast by the member editor, who is usually the editor-in-chief, or otherwise by the nominated contact for the journal.

Dear colleague,
Voting for the 3 vacancies on COPE council is now open and will remain open until Friday 26 November 2010. All Full and Associate Members are entitled to vote. Please note that there is only one vote per journal title, even for journals with multiple editors. The vote should be cast by the member editor, who is usually the editor-in-chief, or otherwise by the nominated contact for the journal.
 

9 November 2009
Dear Member,

TAKE NOTICE that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Committee on Publication Ethics (Company number 6389120, registered Charity number 1123023) will take place on 2nd December 2009 at 3.00pm in The Boardroom, Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HQ and you should attend.

The purpose of the Extraordinary General Meeting is to approve the following resolutions:

1. to amend the Regulations of the Company in the form attached hereto; and

Dear COPE member,

This is a call for cases to be presented at the next COPE Forum meeting on Wednesday 2 September, 3pm to 5pm.

The meeting will take place at Woburn House, Tavistock Sq, London (http://www.woburnhouse.co.uk/contact.aspx).

Dear COPE member,

This is a call for cases to be presented at the next COPE Forum meeting on Tuesday 2 June, 3 to 5pm.

The meeting will take place at Woburn House, Tavistock Sq, London (http://www.woburnhouse.co.uk/contact.aspx).

Dear COPE member,

We are delighted to announce the arrival of COPE's new quarterly newsletter - Ethical Editing. You can download this as a pdf from our website http://publicationethics.org/newsletters. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please address these to the COPE Newsletter editor via the website.

Kind regards

Linda Gough

Administrator
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
www.publicationethics.org

Dear COPE member,

The cases discussed at the COPE Forum meeting on 3 March 2009 and the advice given are now available to view on the COPE website.

New cases

09-01 Paper published that is a verbatim copy of another published article by another author

08-28 Advice regarding a weird type of content and its authorship

09-02 The case of the four "T"s

09-03 Multiple publication of research

09-04 Possible serial misconduct in relation to coauthors and other activities

Dear COPE member,

This is a reminder that COPE's Annual General Meeting will take place during the COPE Seminar on Friday 27 March 2009 at 4.30pm, Woburn House, 20 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HQ. Details, including the agenda, are on the COPE website (http://publicationethics.org/newsevents).

Kind regards

Linda Gough

Administrator
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
www.publicationethics.org

Dear COPE member,

Please see the notice on the website regarding council elections (http://publicationethics.org/newsevents).

Kind regards

Linda Gough

Administrator
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
www.publicationethics.org

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 6602
Fax +44 (0) 844 443 1087

Dear COPE member,

More details on COPE's annual seminar can be found on the website, where you can download the full programme (http://publicationethics.org/seminar/uk2009).

There are still places available so please register online if you haven't already done so.

The closing date for registration is next Friday 13 March.

Very best wishes

Linda Gough