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The Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing are regarded as an example of "established industry best practices", along with the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals , by the NIH in the "Statement on Article Publication Resulting from NIH Funded Research" (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not-od-18-011.html). The Medline review process (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/lstrc/j_sel_faq.html) also includes checking journals conform with both guidelines. So, the Principles of Transparency are indeed used as a benchmark by groups beyond the four authoring organisations.
The NIH statement also encourages stakeholders to help authors find credible journals and mentions Think Check Submit, which in turn includes checking if a journal or publisher belongs to a recognised industry initiative like COPE. COPE has an important and challenging role that also needs the involvement of multiple stakeholders. In addition, people need to be reminded to check a journal/publisher is indeed a COPE member via the COPE website, and not rely on mentions of COPE in a journal/publisher website or possible misuse of COPE's logos. COPE members have an individualised COPE logo/badge.
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Mentioned in the webinar:
IAP (The Interacademy Partnership) is calling all researchers to complete an online survey (available in 7 languages) to "Help Combat Predatory Academic Journals & Conferences". The deadline is 31 December 2020. Please see:
https://www.interacademies.org/project/predatorypublishing
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Predatory publishing has increased in the developing country due to increase in publication count rather quality of actual research & publication. Its a crazy race for promotion, higher appointments , publication incentives. Some journals of universities also publish rehash shop worn work coz of keeping the publication cycle on. Also, Some editors are not even given access to the journal management system & are forced to accept articles by the institution (publisher) despite of under-rated work.
how these actions & many more are giving space to predatory publishing.
COPE can definitely with other associations can step ahead to bring stringent policies that can be adopted globally to minimize this form of malpractice.
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