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…href="http://publicationethics.org/contact-us">feedback on them. We encourage authors and anyone else who is unfamiliar with a journal to use these criteria in assessing a journal.- Case
Ethical approval requirements for case study reports
…should pay equal attention even if it is decided that informed consent for research does not apply to case reports or case series. COPE has guidelines regarding patient consent in case reports. It should be noted that these stipulate that journals… - News
In the news: June 2021
Each month, COPE Council members find and share publication ethics news. This month the news includes articles on intellectual property, preprints, peer review, and more. Data and reproducibility The Food and Drug Administration in the USA informed Accleron Pharma that… - Case
Request for a retraction from a pharmaceutical company
The Forum praised the journal for following previous COPE advice in contacting the author with a view to encouraging an exchange of peer-reviewed letters. The case was felt to be straightforward to deal with… - Case
Dual submission
_ Around one in five published papers are republished in substantial form. _ A study in the 80s found that over 10 per cent did not mention previous publication, but a second study at the end of the 90s suggested this figure was around 1%. _ It takes considerable time and effort to look at all the referenced papers to see if there is any overlap and then those are the published ones, not those… COPE webinar: Understanding text recycling
…date—including surveys and interviews with editors and researchers, copyright and contract law, and analyses of published papers. They will then discuss the ethical and practical issues involved in establishing effective policy. Speakers Cary Moskovitz (Lead PI), Duke University. Associate Professor of…- News
Case Discussion: Possible plagiarism
…sloppiness. The practice of citing with either quoting or paraphrasing is also the etiquette expected when copyright permission is not required, including use of material that is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence and material in the public domain (CC 0). The need for sound infrastructure and clear policies and processes in the editorial office is covered in the COPE - News
Letter from COPE: June 2020
…="https://publicationethics.org/resources/discussion-documents/cope-forum-6-march-2020-editing-reviewer-comments">website. Stay healthy and stay safe. Nancy Chescheir & Caroline… Rights and permissions policy
…href="#photo">Photography and copyright Reproducing or translating COPE materials Our COPE materials are available to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This means that you are free to copy…- Seminars and webinars
COPE webinar 2018: Creating and implementing data research policies
…(80%) or required a data availability statement (80%). Fewer had encountered mandatory data sharing (62%), data citation (40%), or peer review of data (38%). Related resources - News
In the news: May 2020
…the pandemic. https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/shut-in-scientists-are-spending-more-time-on-research-papers - Forum discussion topics
Predatory publishing: next steps and where do we go from here?
…alt="" src="/files/u7140/kelly_cobey_-_1.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 1px 3px; max-width: 100%; width: 120px; height: 81px;" /> Presentation by Kelly Cobey, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Developing a digital authenticator tool… - News
In the news: March Digest
…contact you in March to discuss next steps. www.ohri.ca/journalology India’s University Grants Commission has new guidelines requiring universities to train PhD students on research and… - News
Post-publication discussions and corrections focus
…--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read November Digest: Post-Publication Discussions and Corrections. This issue of Digest announces new resources What to do if you Suspect Image Manipulation in a Published… - Case
Removing a retracted article from a third party site
…original article was published under a CC-BY license with the authors as the copyright holders. The article is available in full as a pdf on website Z. This is not one of journal A's indexing partners and we believe it may have been downloaded from journal A's website before retraction and uploaded to website Z. Numerous email takedown notices from the publisher to website Z have not been… - News
WCRI 2019: Responsible authorship panel
…Summary of Responsible authorship panel at WCRI2019 Our session on the first day of the conference was a panel discussion describing the preliminary analysis of 134 authorship cases presented to the COPE Forum between 1997 and 2018, followed by… - News
Case discussion: Editing peer review comments
…href="https://publicationethics.org/events/cope-forum-friday-6-march-2020">COPE Forum on 6 March. With this in mind, we highlight two cases from the COPE archive: Case 97-08 likely predated the online editorial management systems that allow confidential comments for the editor to be separated from their comments for the author. The submitter of the case… - News
In the news: February 2022
…conference with >1300 attendees from >80 countries in December, free of charge, that explored DEI issues, discoverability of research from areas outside Europe and North America, Research Integrity among other topics. Recorded content will be made available. DORA listed their own, and other organisations' progress in 2021 toward the Please, play a game with us!
…src="/files/u7140/Digest_University_Image.png" style="width: 560px; height: 215px;" /> In January… As a new RIO, Jo is faced with a dispute between authors. A senior member in the office, who is aware of COPE and the institution’s COPE membership, directs Jo to the COPE website to find out how this type of issue would be handled by journals. Jo reads the COPE guidelines How to Handle Authorship Disputes, A Guide for New…