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Election of COPE Trustees 2019: Your vote counts!
COPE's new Trustees will help shape the organisation for the benefit of our members. Vote for the candidates that best reflect your ambitions for COPE. Following our recent notice regarding vacancies on the COPE Trustee Board, we are delighted to announce the shortlist for the two vacancies. Read - Event
COPE European Seminar 2014
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Managing the relationships between society owned journals, their society, and publishers
…Guidelines are formal COPE policy and are intended to advise editors and publishers on expected publication ethics practice. Managing relationships between society-owned journals, their society and publishers … - News
COPE Forum Meetings 2016
The quarterly COPE Forum meetings, where we discuss cases submitted by members, will take place in Februray, May, August and November. The Forums will be by webinar, except for the August Forum, which will be a face to face meeting in London during the INANE conference. 3-4.30pm (GMT) Friday 12 February 2016 by Webinar8-9.30am (BST) Friday 6 May 2016 by Webinar2-3.30pm… - News
February Forum: agenda and discussion topic
The first COPE Forum of the year will take place on 26 February from 4-5.30pm (GMT). We begin with a discussion on Expressions of Concern, followed by an update on existing cases. The cases and discussion document are now available with the Forum agenda. You are invited to make comment on the discussion document whether or not you are attending the Forum. - Event
Association of Research Integrity Officers 2018
…Charon will also be part of the panel in the afternoon's plenary session "Collaborations #1: Publication Best Practices - Transparency, Confidentiality and Cooperation Session to discuss journal editor interactions with institutions in handling research misconduct and CLUE guidelines". More information… COPE sanctions process flowchart
The COPE sanctions process defines when COPE might instigate sanctions against COPE members, the process followed, and what those sanctions might be. Key points when the process could be invoked how the process works who is involved possible actions that could be implemented- 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 ( - News
Data Sharing Policies in Scholarly Publications: Interdisciplinary Comparisons
…to be ready by early next year. Data sharing policies in scholarly publications: interdisciplinary comparisons … COPE strategic report 2020
…Council Members for their commitment as volunteers, the members and partners who support COPE, many of who also commit their time to undertaking COPE activities, and our employed team at COPE, all of who have worked hard for COPE under difficult circumstances during the past year. COPE strategic report 2020 (PDF, 4.4MB)…- News
Publication ethics issues in education
In 2019 COPE conducted research to gain more understanding of publication ethics issues in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. COPE undertook this research with the support of Routledge and commissioned primary research with Shift Learning. The results from Education journals show which are the most serious, most widespread, most frequent issues, and those editors are least… - Research
No study’s perfect: a cross-disciplinary analysis of published errata 2011
…of the literature and its preservation. They will point out strengths and weaknesses in the current publication system, and will draw attention to areas that might need improvement, hopefully stimulating new approaches to ensuring best editorial and research practices. The project will be conducted by Dr Daniele Fanelli of the University of Edinburgh, with the help of a research… International standards for editors and authors
…href="http://www.worldscibooks.com/socialsci/8102.html">here). We encourage editors to publish the statements in their own journals and reference them or incorporate them into their editorial policies and instructions for authors. (*Permission for republication is not required but the original source should be acknowledged.)- Event
APAME 2013 Tokyo
…Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;">The conference is free, although numbers are limited to 100. To register for the congress, please see here: FORUM DISCUSSION TOPIC: comments please
…template would meet the pre-requisites for the COPE retraction guidelines[3] using very simple tick boxes: who is retracting the article, the reason for the retraction and history of errata/ expressions of concern. Then, a free text box would allow the editor to add any information they consider useful. A copy of the form can be- Event
15th EASE General Assembly and Conference
The next EASE Conference will be the 15th EASE General Assembly and Conference to be held online from Wednesday to Friday, 23-25 June 2021 on the theme: Promoting sustainability in scholarly publishing: the role of editors The - News
New Journal Members October-December 2018
COPE is pleased to welcome journals who became members between October and December 2018. The new members have been assessed against criteria outlined in the Principles of Transparency and signing up to COPE shows that they intend to follow the highest standards of publication ethics and to apply COPE principles of publication ethics… - Event
CSE Annual Meeting
The theme of this year's meeting is 'Publishing in the changing climate of the research ecosystem'. COPE Council member Daniel Kulp will run a session on "What to do if you suspect…