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What happens when there is no local ethics committee?
A paper from Taiwan was reviewed and accepted for publication. However, one of the reviewers raised the question of ethics committee approval. When the editors checked with the authors, they responded that there is no ethics committee at their university and they were therefore not able to seek ethical approval. What is COPE’s view on this? The study was fairly straightforward involving… - News
Presentations from COPE 2013 Asia-Pacific Seminar now online
The presentations, posters and meeting report from the 2013 COPE Asia-Pacific seminar are now available online. The theme of the semianr was 'Correcting the LIterature' and includes presentations from Helen McLean, legal counsel for John Wiley & Sons; John Loadsman, Editor of - 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.… - Event
How to publish better content
Developed from the medical editors' workshop (now it it's 21st year),this online course and resource is aimed at new EiCs. It covers how toattract better content, spot problems, improve peer review anddecisions, and how to make good use of the editorial board. More… - Webform
Registration for the 2023 COPE seminar, Publication Integrity Week
The 2023 COPE seminar, Publication Integrity Week will take place online from 2 to 6 October 2023. There is no restriction on the number of sessions that COPE members can attend. Non-members may only attend the ‘Introduction to publication ethics’ session. Publication Integrity Week programme The seminar… - News
COPE Officers 2019-2021
…Welcome In May 2019, the current COPE Officers came to the end of their terms. We welcome the new officers and those officers moving to new roles, and look forward to working together for the next three years. Following two years as Vice-Chair and Chair-elect, - Event
COPE Mini UK Seminar 2014
COPE is delighted to announce a half-day mini UK Seminar, which will be held in collaboration with ISMTE (International Society of Managing and Technical Editors), on Monday 13 October 2014 at Charles Darwin House, 12 Rogers Street, London WC1N 2JU, 1–4.30pm. For more details and to register, - Seminars and webinars
North American Seminar 2014: How editors share information about misconduct
…Download presentation: How editors share information about misconduct [PDF, 512KB]… - News
New book on competing interests published by the Esteve Foundation
The Esteve Foundation has recently published the latest volume of the Esteve Foundation Notebooks series titled “Competing interests in biomedical publications. Main guidelines and selected articles”, coordinated by Ana Marusic and Harvey Marcovitch. COPE guidelines are referenced in the book. The notebook is available through their website here… - News
COPE Forum 24 April 2017
…Register for 24 April Forum Taking part in the Forum allows members to contribute to, as well as learn from, the cases being discussed. We present the same cases at both forum to allow more of our membership to attend. Register as soon as possible as the webinar is limited to 100 attendees. - Event
ISMPP webinar: Coronavirus (COVID-19), its impact on publication planning
…pandemic is having on medical publication planning. We are requesting a few minutes of your time to complete the survey, so your feedback can inform webinar faculty of the challenges we are facing as medical publication professionals.… - News
Nature Publishing Group wins libel case
Nature Publishing Group has won the libel case brought against them by Mohamed El Naschie, former editor of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (CSF) regarding an article published in 2008: ‘Self-publishing editor set to retire’. Read more on the judgement - News
COPE council members re-elected
COPE is very pleased to announce the re-election of two COPE council members following our recent elections: Behrooz Astaneh (http://publicationethics.org/about/council/behrooz-astaneh) and Geraldine Pearson ( - News
Vote for COPE Council members
Voting for the 2 vacancies on COPE council is now open. Following our recent call for nominations, we are delighted to have received so much interest from members. The Nominations Subcommittee has carefully and thoroughly reviewed all the applications against the criteria in our call, and has produced a shortlist of 7 candidates to put forward for election. - Event
Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting 2021
…Charting a New Course from Chaos to Innovation The SSP virtual meeting will: 'reflect our changed world. What new insights and strategies have been discovered and implemented? What are the possibilities that have yet to be realized? As we move from reacting to adapting, how will our responses change the future of scholarly communications? And how should our responsibility to the… - Case
Russian scientific misconduct
A letter was sent to an editor, claiming that scientific misconduct had taken place in Russia. The editor did not want to ignore the issue, which was not related to submitted papers and could not be published as a letter. But s/he was unsure what action to take. … This would be best pursued as an investigative news story.… - News
Letter from the COPE co-Chairs: September 2018
…target="_blank">recognition for review” in 2016, where our community explored “all aspects of how those participating in review should be recognized for their contribution”. In 2017, PRW focused on an important theme for all members of COPE, “transparency.” That theme is more relevant now than ever. This month… - Event
COPE Forum: Monday 5 November 2018
…18-11 Increased number of casual submissions 18-12 A pre-submission inquiry with a bribe 18-13 Self-plagiarism and suspected salami publishing 18-14 Authorship conflict 18-15 Peer reviewer contacted by author 18-16 Data fabrication in a rejected manuscript 18-17 Possible plagiarism 18-18 Victim of article theft wants correction to list… - Event
COPE Forum: Tuesday 15 December 2020
…Chair 2. Forum discussion Predatory publishing: next steps and where do we go from here? 3. New cases unable to contact authors simultaneous submission without aiming at duplicate publication authors requesting removal of verbatim text from published… - Webform
COPE authorship workshop 10 February 2021
…format The authorship workshop event page has details of the workshop format and Cases that will be covered. Alternative date This authorship workshop is also being held on 24 February 2021, 09:00 - 10:30 AM (GMT). You…