COPE provides leadership in thinking on publication ethics and practical resources to educate and support members, and offers a professional voice in current debates.
What are the next steps that COPE, or other industry organisations, might consider as a response to the continued flourishing and growth of predatory journals, conferences, and publishers?
Our core practices
Core practices are the policies and practices journals and publishers need, to reach the highest standards in publication ethics. We include cases with advice, guidance for day-to-day practice, education modules and events on topical issues, to support journals and publishers fulfil their policies.
COPE news
What are the next steps that COPE, or other industry organisations, might consider as a response to the continued flourishing and growth of predatory journals, conferences, and publishers? Join us for this discussion at the COPE Forum, with guest speaker Dr Kelly Cobey.
We have corrected an inaccurate statement that appeared in our December Digest letter, regarding policy changes of some preprint servers.
Read the latest publication ethics new, gathered by COPE, with articles on diversity and inclusion, predatory publishing, research integrity, peer review, and more.
Matt Hodgkinson was invited to speak at the the ISMTE European Virtual Event, to explore the ethics of citations.
Guidance & discussion
We invited speakers from the Text Recycling Research Project (TRRP) to our August webinar, to hear about their latest findings, and the ethical and practical issues involved in establishing good practice and effective policy. The recording is now available, plus questions we couldn't get to during the webinar which have since been answered by the TRRP team.
An update on predatory publishing developments in 2020 is the topic of discussion in this issue of Digest.
"A journal’s duty is to maintain the quality of its published content". Read more about how to maintain this principle while a reader continues to raise concerns after the journal has extensively investigated.
We bring together support and guidance on issues that have come about during this crisis. The posts include articles on how authors, editors and reviewers are handling their work during this period and guidelines developed in response to the changing environment and workflow.