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New! Discussion document on Consent for Publishing Medical Case Reports
…="http://publicationethics.org/files/u7141/Discussion_document_on_Best_Practice_for_Consent_for_Publishing_Medical_Case_Reports%20%283%29.pdf">Discussion document on Best Practice for Consent for Publishing Medical Case Reports As with all of the COPE discussion documents, we welcome feedback, and we encourage journal editors and publishers to comment (whether or not they are COPE members). We are particularly keen to gather… - News
Core Practices
…and, most importantly, continually revised library. Within COPE’s core practices is a suite of documents including over 500 cases, 20 flowcharts (in multiple languages), 11 guidance documents, and much more. The ten core practices are: - Seminars and webinars
China Seminar 2017: Promoting awareness of good authorship practice
Download the presentation to view it Download presentation: Promoting awareness of good authorship practice [PDF, 1,290KB]… - News
New: COPE Audit
Now updated to correspond with COPE's Core Practices! As a COPE Member benefit, the COPE Journal Audit is designed to support and encourage editors to identify areas of their journal's policies and processes… - Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2011: Ghosts, Guests and other Distortions of Authorship
…Download presentation: Ghosts, Guests and other Distortions of Authorship [PDF, 1240 KB]… - Event
Neicon 7th International Scientific and Practical Conference
Behrooz Astaneh, COPE Council member, is speaking at this conference titled "2018: Editorial Policy, Open Access, Scientific Communications". - Event
APAME and CASE Annual Meeting 2018
Trevor Lane, COPE Council Member, is speaking at the Joint Annual Meeting of Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME) and Council of Asian Science Editors (CASE). Students and staff of local and ASEAN research institutions, members of APAME and CASE (journal and manuscript editors) will be attending the meeting. The topic is principles of transparency and best practice in… - News
New: Chinese resources
…programme_2017_final_2_rev3_website.pdf">English programme Session 1 Ethical Authorship. Best Practice for Avoiding Authorship Disputes Chaired by: Deborah Poff and Helena Wang Promoting awareness of good authorship practice Siu-wai Leung, University of Macau Promoting awareness of good… - News
COPE's eLearning course now live
An eLearning course for editors, developed by COPE, is now live on the website. Available to members only, the course aims to give editors a deeper understanding of publication ethics and provides practical guidance on how to detect, prevent and handle misconduct. A press release with more information is available - News
APAME and CASE Joint Convention 2018: Report
…(CASE) in Bogor, Indonesia. The theme of the two-day conference was “Digital Standards and Editors’ Associations of Asia-Pacific Scientific Journals”. On 18 July, he introduced COPE and its resources, the joint COPE/DOAJ/OASPA/WAME Principles of Transparency and Best… - Seminars and webinars
European Seminar 2011: Systematic review of authorship research across research disciplines
…Download presentation: Systematic review of authorship research across research disciplines [PDF, 800KB]… - News
New flowchart
…href="https://publicationethics.org/files/COPE%20PR_Manipulation_Process.pdf">New flowchart to help editors spot potential manipulation of the peer review process. The chart describes recognised patterns of behaviour, best practice to minimise peer review manipulation and cases that have been brought to COPE for advice from the Forum.… - Guidelines
Journals’ Best Practices for ensuring consent for publishing medical case reports: guidance from COPE
General principles around consent and consent forms for editors to use when developing forms for their journals' purposes. Journals’ Best Practices for ensuring consent for publishing medical case reports: guidance from COPE - News
Comments please: framework for editors when requesting patient consent for publication in small cohort studies
…the study. Please send any comments to Shehnaz Ahmed. Deadline for comments: 24 February 2017 COPE guidance: Journals' best practices for ensuring consent for publishing medical case reports: For more guidance on the general… Why the Code of Conduct for Journal Editors was replaced with the Core Practices
…developments. COPE reviewed the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Editors and consolidated them into one, much shorter, document entitled 'Core Practices'. The choice of the name is deliberate. The phrase “Code of Conduct” was misinterpreted as being quasi legal, which is inappropriate given COPE’s role as- Event
COPE webinar: Diversity, equity and inclusion
Join us for our webinar on diversity, equity and inclusion. Learn more about the impact of discriminatory practices, recommendations for the promotion of equality, best practices around identity and name changes, and dealing with historical offensive content. More information … - News
New: Spanish resources
…COPE peer review resources: Spanish Spanish translations of COPE resources: flowcharts, ethical guidelines for peer reviewers, How to Spot Manipulation of the Peer Review Process, What to Consider when asked to Peer Review a Manuscript, What Constitutes Authorship? discussion document and our Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. For Peer Review… - Webform
Journal membership application form
…/guidelines-new/principles-transparency-and-best-practice-scholarly-publishing">Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing form part of the criteria we use to evaluate publishers and journals, expecting publishers to adhere to them and follow the spirit of the principles in all aspects of their publishing operation In addition to the Principles of… - Seminars and webinars
North America Seminar 2014: Persistent identifiers in the authoring process
…Download presentation: Persistent identifiers in the authoring process [PDF, 7400KB]… Become a member
…ethics, and providing advice for editors and publishers. Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing COPE is just one of a number of organisations that is seeing a large rise in applications for membership from new journals. Although we very much want to encourage and support legitimate new journals, we are also mindful that many new journals are not currently…