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Final 3 flowcharts now available in Spanish

The final three flow charts have now been translated into Spanish and are available here.  

These are: Advice on how to spot authorship problems; Suspected guest, ghost or gift authorship; and What to do if you suspect a reviewer has appropriated an author’s idea or data.

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Ethical Editing – Summer 2011 issue

Download the Summer issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE.
This issue's theme is 'Exploring the ethical landscape'. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have. Please contact us via the website.

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COPE announces 1st Asia Pacific seminar and 3rd North American seminar

COPE has just posted details regarding its 1st Asia Pacific Seminar and Forum.  Taking place in Melbourne, Australia on 14 November 2011, the theme is PUBLICATION ETHICS AT THE FOUR POINTS OF THE JOURNAL EDITING COMPASS.  See here for more details.  Registration is now open.

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COPE Forum agenda for 6 June 2011 meeting

Download the agenda and materials for the COPE Forum meeting 6 June 2011 here.  (PDF, 194kb).

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Spanish version of flowcharts now available

14 out of the 17 COPE flowcharts are now available in Spanish and can be downloaded here.  We hope to have the full set available here shortly.  

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COPE Research Grant - deadline looming

A reminder that the deadline for applications for the COPE research grant is 1 June 2011.  Any COPE member can apply for a grant (up to £5000) for a research project into publication ethics.

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Announcement of COPE Council elections

Due to expansion of the size of COPE Council, we are seeking nominations for two new candidates.

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COPE's first discussion document on plagiarism published

When aspects of publication ethics are particularly fast-moving or controversial COPE cannot always provide detailed guidance. Consequently, in a new venture for COPE, we are intending to publish a series of discussion documents with the aim to stimulate discussion rather than tell editors what to do. We hope that, by raising the issues, we can contribute to the debate within the academic publishing community and work towards agreement or definition of difficult problems.

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The Royal Society seeks input into new study

The Royal Society is seeking input from academia, business, industry, Government, interest groups and members of the public for a new, major policy study on the use of scientific information as it affects scientists and society. It will ask how scientific information should be managed to support innovative and productive research that reflects public values. See http://bit.ly/k0vnv8 for more details.

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Italian version of flowcharts now available

An Italian version of the COPE flowcharts are now available and can be downloaded here.   Coming soon: Farsi, Spanish, Korean, and others! More details can be seen here.

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