COPE European Seminar 2015
The COPE European Seminar 2015 will once again be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 16-17 April 2015.
The theme of this year's European seminar is “Weighed and measured: how metrics shape publication (mis)behaviour”. Editors, publishers, authors and all those interested in publication ethics are welcome to attend. The full programme will be available shortly. In addition to the all day seminar on Friday 17 April, COPE is holding a half-day Workshop on Thursday 16 April (2.30-4.30pm) with discussion of ethical cases.The full programme will be available shortly.
The seminar will include invited talks, a panel discussion and interactive workshops.
The seminar is free for COPE members and £300 for non-members. Numbers are limited and early booking is advisable. For more information and to register, see the COPE website.
Second International Congress on Publication Ethics, Shiraz, Iran
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) in partnership with COPE, organized the two day Second International Congress on Publication Ethics at Shiraz, 4-5 December 2014. It was held in collaboration with Iranian Medical Journals Commission, Iranian Society of Medical Editors and National Committee for Ethics in Medical Research. A full report on the meeting has been published in the Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences.
New COPE members
We welcome three new publishers to COPE: The Optical Society (OSA), Editorial Univestitar Politècnica de València and the Association for Cancer Research. The journal, Science, has also signed up to COPE.