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In the News: July Digest
…more articles, means that the country does not have enough journals to publish the 150,000 papers per year.http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/06/10/wanted-6000-new-journals-to-publish-150000-papers.html Peer review process eLife is conducting… - News
Global standards for authors and editors tackle thorny issues such as research bias and misleading publicity
…href="http://www.worldscibooks.com/socialsci/8102.html">here). COPE Chair, Liz Wager, writes: “COPE already helps editors from many of the world’s major publishers to deal with publication misconduct and the standards for editors complement the COPE Code of Conduct followed by our members. We also welcomed the chance to get involved in the first universal global guidelines for authors from all areas of scholarly publishing, including research scientists,… - Event
CSE's 2014 Annual Conference
COPE will hold a joint session with the Council of Science Editors (CSE) at their next conference, to be held in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Click here for more information. … - Event
APE 2017 (Academic Publishing in Europe)
The theme is Publishing ethics: doing the right thing—doing things right Join the ongoing international debate about the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. This is APE number 12. Full details and to register… - News
SpotOn London 2012: Q&A with Dr Ginny Barbour
Leading up to the session on academic misconduct and fraud at SpotOn London, on 11-12 November, COPE chair Ginny Barbour did a Q&A for Nature. See here:… - News
CSE/COPE Joint Webinar on Authorship: recordings now online
The recordings and presentations from the Council of Science Editors/COPE Joint Webinar on Authorship held on October 22, 2012 are now available to download from the CSE website.… - Event
8th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
As with previous Congresses, the aim is to improve the quality and credibility of biomedical information and to help advance the efficiency, effectiveness, and equitability of scientific information dissemination throughout the world. See here for more details… - Event
Research Cluster in Applied Research Ethics & Integrity
Chris Graf, COPE co-Chair is giving the keynote speech at this conference to formally launch the Cluster to University of Kent students and academics. More information… - Event
Medical Communications Forum: Trust & Transparency
…href="http://www.medcommsforum.com/">http://www.medcommsforum.com/ … - Seminars and webinars
WCRI 2019: Preprints and their place in the publication ethics landscape
…href="https://publicationethics.org/about/council/chris-graf">COPE and Wiley) led a panel to discuss the intricacies of preprints and the relevant ethical issues. John Inglis (bioRxiv and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) spoke first and gave a history and background of preprints. Heather Tierney… - Event
American Chemical Society (ACS) Webinars. Catching Errors: Peer Review and Retractions in Publishing
COPE council member Charon Pierson is one of the speakers at this ACS webinar on Thursday 16 April, 2–3pm (ET). Joining is free. Click here for more details and to register.… - News
Wiley launch new ethics guidelines
…href="http://dmmsclick.wiley.com/view.asp?m=v9vyzrfes6yld5ex56dh&u=9348661&f=h">here and the Guidelines found here.… - News
In the news: July & August 2022
…href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/06/16/study-retractions-take-too-long-curb-misinformation">new study in PNAS which found that by the time a paper is retracted, public attention is already diminished. Data and reproducibility A study has found that many researchers do not comply with their… - News
Ethical editing - Summer 2010 issue
Download the Summer issue of Ethical Editing, the newsletter from COPE (http://publicationethics.org/newsletters). This issue's theme is Plagiarism, following on from our recent annual seminar. We would very much welcome any feedback or comments you may have.… - News
In the news: May & June 2022
…href="https://ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-promise-and-perils-of-preprint.html">preprint scouts to identify preprints that may be a good fit for a peer-reviewed journal may be a useful method to increase appropriate submissions, but needs to be implemented with care. Predatory publishing In a comment about a global study by InterAcademy Partnership about - Event
NISO Plus Conference 2023
The NISO Plus conference, over two days, will cover topics such as persistent identifier infrastructure, metadata and AI, peer review and metadata, and much more. COPE Council Member, Rachel Safer, will participate in the session on DEIA and NISO standards about COPE's work on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. 16 February 2pm… - News
COPE Competition!
…Please send suggestions by 15 September http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PFN7K68…