Seminars and webinars

In July 2018 COPE held a webinar on 'Creating and implementing data research policies' moderated by Trevor Lane of Edanz Group and COPE Council.

The guest speakers were:
Rebecca Grant (Research Data Manager) & Varsha Khodiyar (Data Curation Manager) from the Open Research Group at Springer Nature;
Todd Carpenter (Executive Director) from NISO, National Information Standards Organization.

Discussing the practicalities and challenges of initiating and implementing data sharing policies. 

At the COPE Australian Seminar 2018, Professor Ralph Horne, Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor for research and innovation at RMIT, presented on transparent institutions and the risks, challenges and opportunities that arise for institutions striving for transparency.

Deborah Wyatt, the Vice President for society research publishing at Wiley, presented her principles for transparency in an evolving research publishing landscape.

Presentation 1
Transparent institutions: risks, challenges and opportunities
Professor Ralph Horne, RMIT University

Download presentation: Publication ethics: a legal perspective  (PDF, 922 KB)

At the 2017 COPE European Seminar, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data Publishing at Springer Nature, talked about research data in the context of challenges and opportunities for publication ethics.

Download presentation: The  range of conflicts of interest and how they should be managed (PDF, 6750KB)

For Peer Review Week 2017, COPE held a Webinar on the current issues in Peer Review, moderated by Heather Tierney, Managing Editor of Journals and Ethics Policy at the American Chemical Society, and COPE Council Member.

The guest speakers were:
Tony Ross-Hellauer, Scientific Manager at the OPENAire2020 project, University of Göttinge;
Jessica Polka, Director of ASAPbio
Samantha Hindle, ASAPbio Ambassador
Elizabeth Moylan, Senior Editor Research Integrity, Biomed Central and COPE Council Member

The webinar was recorded: 

Download presentation: Identifying authorship: how hard can it be? [PDF, 2,109 KB]

No seminar was held this year

COPE's first webinar for information, shared discussion and practical advice on common authorship issues faced by COPE members, was held in June 2017.

Guest speakers:
Deborah Poff, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Academic Ethics 
Kelly Cobey, Senior Clinical Research Associate, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Liz Allen, Director of Strategic Initiatives, F1000

For COPE's 20th Anniversary, the 2017 COPE European Seminar invited Liz Wager to look back at the last twenty years of publication ethics.