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ISMPP European Meeting 2018: COPE member discount
ISMPP will hold its 2018 European Meeting, Advancing Medical Publications in a Complex Evidence Ecosystem, on 23-24 January, in London, and is offering a 10% discount on the registration fee to COPE members. Access the registration page at, and enter EU18COPE10 in the “Discount Code” field. The 10% discount is available… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: June 2022
…src="/files/council/dan-kulp-90x90.png" style="margin: 3px 9px; float: left; width: 90px; height: 90px;" />Dan Kulp, COPE Chair Read COPE Digest newsletter, June 2022, in which we launch the paper mills research report with STM and invite you to join the discussion on Dealing with complaints about the integrity of… - News
FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
The Forum discussion topic, on Wednesday 10 June, is “Prior publication and theses”. Click below to learn more and please do leave your comments.http://publicationethics.org/forum-discussion-topic-comments-please-3… - Seminars and webinars
Legal issues in corrections, retractions and expressions of concern — Mark Seeley, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Elsevier
…Download presentation: Legal issues in corrections, retractions and expressions of concern [PDF, 100KB]… - Event
COPE Forum: Thursday 3 March 2022
…Forum agenda On 3 March 2022 the COPE Forum will be held at 11:00-12:30pm (GMT / UTC) 1. Update on COPE activities by the Chair. 2. Forum discussion topic. We begin the COPE Forum with a discussion on the topic of Editorial conflicts of interest. 3. New… - News
Letter from the COPE Chair: September 2022
…href="https://mailchi.mp/publicationethics/cope-digest-june-2022">Read COPE Digest newsletter, June 2022, in which we launch the paper mills research report with STM and invite you to join the discussion on Dealing with complaints about the integrity of published research.-->… - News
In the news: November Digest
…publishing choices. https://thinkchecksubmit.org/2019/10/17/think-check-submit-looks-forward-to-collaboration-on-new-research-programme/ Allegations of misconduct An investigation by King’s College London has found 26 of… COPE team
…employee of COPE. Alysa Levene Operations Manager Alysa joined COPE in 2022 and is responsible for the operational side of the organisation. Previously she worked as an academic historian and has published on the history of…- News
DOIs for COPE guidance
…bibliographic information about the resource. For example, the DOI https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.7 will take you the latest version of the COPE guideline Sharing of Information Among Editors-in-Chief Regarding Possible Misconduct. To find further information about DOIs visit - Flowcharts
Arabic: all flowcharts
…This is all of COPE's flowcharts in Arabic. For the latest version (English language) of this guidance visit https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.2.26. Other languages: Chinese | 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…- Event
ISTME European virtual event
The International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) are exploring 'Evolving trends in scholarly publishing' during this two day event. COPE Council member, Matt Hodgkinson is speaking at this virtual event on Friday 20 November 10:00-10:30am (GMT). Matt will be exploring the ethics of… - Webform
COPE authorship workshop 24 February 2021
…Online cases workshop for COPE members Wednesday 24 February 2021 9:00-10.30am (GMT); 17.00-18.30pm (AWST); 20.00-21.30pm (AEDT) The authorship workshop is free for COPE members but spaces are limited to the first 50 applicants. Only those registered will be able to attend the workshop. You will… - Event
ISMTE webinar: Responding to world events
15 September 2022, 16:00 (BST), 11:00 (EDT), 15:00 (UTC) When it is appropriate to respond to world events, and how to be effective in their response. COPE is represented at this ISMTE webinar by panellists Caroline Porter (COPE Trustee, and Associate VP Research Publishing SAGE Publishing) and Simon Linacre (COPE Trustee, and Head of Content, Brand & Press… - Research
CrossCheck guidance: an analysis of typical cases of plagiarism in different disciplines 2010
…detect plagiarism, and their attitude to potential plagiarism once discovered. The following publication has arisen from this project: Helen Zhang, Xiaoyan JIA (2012). A survey on the use of CrossCheck for detecting plagiarism in journal articles. Learned Publishing 25:292–307 (doi:10.1087/20120408). Several English papers arising from this project are listed below and can be downloaded from… - News
COPE North American Seminar August 10, 2016 'Ethics in peer review'
COPE is delighted to announce its 7th North American Seminar, which will be held in collaboration with ISMTE (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), on Wednesday August 10, 2016, at the Hilton Philadelphia City… FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…clinical trial data—A proposal from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. New England Journal of Medicine, January 20. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1515172 Vickers A J. (2006). Whose data set is it anyway? Sharing raw data from randomized trials. Trials 7; 15. DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-7-15 Wager, E. (2016). Sharing data is a good thing. But we need to consider the…- News
Letter from the COPE Chair: October 2020
…href="https://publicationethics.org/publishers-perspective-paper-mills">publisher perspective that describes collective actions required to help address these issues. Finally, my congratulations to Michal Tal-Socher and Adrian Ziderman, authors of a paper funded by a COPE research grant. Their paper, Data sharing policies in scholarly publications: interdisciplinary comparisons, has been… - Event
Update on publication guidelines and insights from AMWA, EMWA and ISMPP
The International Society of Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) invites members of COPE to a special educational webinar focused on medical publication guidelines, on Wednesday, January 28th, 11:00am – 12:30pm EST. The webinar will feature representatives from ISMPP, the American Medical Writers Association (