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COPE Digest
December 2025

Videos: Publication Integrity Week

Welcome to the December issue of COPE Digest

This month’s letter from COPE Chair, Nancy Chescheir, looks back on a demanding year for everyone working in research and scholarly communication, and highlights how COPE has been supporting its community:

"As COPE comes to the end of its year, we traditionally take the time to enjoy the holiday season and reflect on the year. And I want to reflect on the accomplishments that COPE Council, Trustees, and staff have achieved in the service of you, our community. The pressures faced by all people and organisations involved in research and dissemination of scholarly work are increasing, due to many forces. These include financial threats; the complexity and scale of challenges to scholarly publication; funding pressures; geopolitical forces; and artificial intelligence, to name only a few.

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Nancy Chescheir, COPE Chair


** VIDEOS: NOW AVAILABLE
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Videos, summaries, and transcripts from day 1 of Publication Integrity Week: Evolving landscape of publication ethics are now available, featuring five sessions exploring challenges and developments in publishing integrity. If you missed a session on the day, or would like to revisit a discussion in your own time, you can now catch up on demand.


** DAY 1: EVOLVING LANDSCAPE OF PUBLICATION ETHICS
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Session recordings now available:
* Why ethics matters in scholarly publication: a conversation with the early leaders of COPE
* How is AI changing scholarly publishing?
* Commercialising research integrity as an emerging global challenge
* Changing scholarly publishing as we know it
* How technology is being used to support publication of research

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WEB REFERENCES AND THE ISSUE OF CONTENT FIXITY

As online references multiply in scholarly publishing, the risk of link rot and content drift threatens research integrity.

In this guest contribution, Benjamin Lemaire, Medical Communication Service Center Enovalife, explores how disappearing or changing web pages undermine reproducibility and calls for stronger publisher policies, such as archiving cited webpages, to preserve the reliability of the scientific record.

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** NEW ROLES OPEN
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COPE Members Only
Do you want to play a more active role in the publication ethics community?
We have new roles open to COPE Members interested in serving as a COPE Trustee or as a COPE Council Member. Applicants from all regions and backgrounds are welcome to apply.

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** ELEARNING: TEN MODULES
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COPE Members Only

Each module includes case studies and questions so that you can review your knowledge. For COPE Members, there are ten modules to choose from. They can be completed in any order:

- Introduction to publication ethics* - Authorship - Conflicts of interest - Corrections, retractions, and expressions of concern - Fabrication - FalsifIcation - Plagiarism - Redundant publication - Reviewer misconduct - Selective reporting
*Introduction to publication ethics module is free for non-members

ELEARNING FOR MEMBERS ([link removed])


** YOUR PUBLICATION ETHICS CASES
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COPE Members Only

COPE Members: if you have a publication ethics issue you are currently dealing with and need advice from other COPE members, submit your case ([link removed]) for discussion and advice at the Forum or from COPE Council Members.

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** INTRODUCTION TO PUBLICATION ETHICS
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Introducción a la Ética de la Publicación
出版伦理介绍

Take this Introduction to publication ethics module, available in three languages, to understand the principles of publication ethics. This module is free for editors and editorial staff who are not yet COPE Members.

ELEARNING ([link removed])


** EXPECTATIONS FOR WORKING WITH RESEARCH INTEGRITY OFFICERS
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COPE Chair, Nancy Chescheir, was invited to speak at the Association of Research Integrity Officers on 12 November 2025. Nancy spoke about expectations for working with Research Integrity Officers (RIOs).

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** BUILT ON INTEGRITY: CSE FALL SYMPOSIUM
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Dan Kulp was invited to speak at the CSE Fall Symposium "Built on integrity: Advancing ethics, promoting transparency, and navigating bias across scholarly publishing" on 20 November 2025. Dan spoke on the topic of editorial integrity under pressure.

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** STM INTEGRITY DAY
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LONDON, UK

COPE Council Member Jason Hu was invited to speak on behalf of COPE at the STM Integrity Day on 10 December 2025. Jason gave an update on the new and updated guidance released by COPE in 2025.

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** COPE OFFICE HOLIDAY PERIOD
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The COPE office will be operating at reduced capacity over the holiday period from Monday 22 December 2025 through to Monday 5 January 2026. It may take slightly longer to respond to your query during this time.


** Submitting a guest editorial or opinion piece to COPE
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We welcome guest editorials and opinion articles regarding research and publication ethics from COPE members. Please read the COPE guest editorial policy ([link removed]) before submitting your article.


** COPE Digest edtiors
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Mark Hooper, COPE Council Member
Managing Editor, Sarah Gillmore, COPE Engagement & Outreach Officer

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