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Welcome to the February issue of COPE Digest.
Dear Readers,
We begin this issue with a warm welcome to our new Council Members. They are: Sarah Eaton, Kim Eggleton, Paul Graham Fisher, Stephanie Kinnan and Siri Lunde Strømme. They individually and collectively bring diverse strengths and interdisciplinary expertise to COPE’s Council. Welcome on board!
As we move into the second month of 2021, COPE has reconfigured our many services to meet our membership deliverables through the second year of the covid-19 pandemic. At the end of 2020, we reviewed the year’s activities in terms of our strategic goals and a synopsis of those activities is included in this month’s Digest. In particular, while we hope to have face to face meetings at the end of 2021, we have committed to online delivery of increased interactive events, including workshops, webinars and a virtual seminar. We also plan to discuss emerging areas of publication ethics at our quarterly forums. Please review our strategic report summary to see the work we are providing and hope to provide in the year ahead to facilitate the goals and needs of our members.
COPE has contracted with Cambridge University Press (CUP) to develop our first online learning resource for universities and research institutes. This product will be an online course on publication ethics, targeted to the needs of research integrity officers (or equivalent). More on this to follow.
On 10 February, we delivered an online authorship cases workshop. This workshop will be repeated for different time zones on 24 February at 17.00-18.30pm (AWST)/9.00-10.30am (GMT).
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In this issue we give some background on COPE’s work on data sharing and describe the goals of the FORCE11 Research Data Publishing Ethics Working Group...
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COPE Chair Deborah Poff
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COPE COLLABORATION WITH FORCE11 WORKING GROUP
Developing resources for research data publishing ethics
As data sharing with publications has gained momentum, we have seen an increase in the number and variety of ethical cases that editors are facing in relation to the deposition, sharing and publication of research data. There is therefore a growing need to develop resources and guidelines that support editors and publishers as they develop or refine their policies, and to help editors handle individual situations they encounter. In line with our goal to support our members by providing practical resources, COPE is collaborating with the newly formed FORCE11 Research Data Publishing Ethics Working Group (WG) to lead the development of standards for research data in publications.
COPE has sought to facilitate discussions and debate among its members in relation to data sharing and journal data policies, referenced under COPE’s Core Practice Data and Reproducibility.
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COPE STRATEGIC REPORT 2020
COPE's 2020 strategic report highlights some of the work undertaken in 2020 towards COPE's strategic objectives.
We thank our Trustees and 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 to achieve this work for COPE under difficult circumstances.
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LATEST PUBLICATION ETHICS NEWS
This month the news includes articles on data sharing, peer review, paper mills and more.
- An evaluation of data sharing after implementation of the ICMJE data sharing requirement, shows there is a gap between declared data sharing by journals and actual data sharing.
- The Royal Society of Chemistry conducted extensive investigations of papers thought to have come from paper mills, resulting in the retraction of 70 scientific studies.
- BMJ have new guidance for authors about obtaining consent for publication for research and articles involving human participants.
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AUTHORSHIP CASES WORKSHOP
Wednesday 24 February
20.00-21.30pm (AEDT)
09:00-10.30am (GMT)
Join us on Zoom for the workshop where we create an online environment for attendees to share ideas, experience, and suggest next steps for each case.
REGISTER TODAY >
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COPE FORUM
Tuesday 23 March, 2.00pm-3.30pm (GMT)
(COPE members only)
COPE Members: if you have a publication ethics issue you're currently dealing with and need advice from other COPE members, you can submit your case for discussion and advice at our next COPE Forum.
The Forum will follow the usual format where we have a discussion topic, followed by cases presented for discussion and advice from members participating in the Forum.
Discussion topic:
The discussion topic will be on the subject of ethical considerations around book publishing..
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NEW COPE COUNCIL MEMBERS
We're pleased to welcome five new Council Members to the COPE team. We asked each Council Member a few questions to get to know them a little better:
- Siri Lunde Strømme, Scientific Editor of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association.
- Sarah Eaton, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Educational Integrity and the book series editor for Ethics and Integrity in Educational Contexts
- Paul Graham Fisher, Associate Editor for The Journal of Pediatrics
- Kim Eggleton, Research Integrity & Inclusion Manager for Institute of Physics Publishing
- Stephanie Kinnan, Managing Editor of Clinical Publications for the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
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Visit our events page to read more about upcoming events which include discussions on publication ethics issues.
- Simon Linacre, COPE Trustee, is presenting at the European University Institute online workshop for early stage researchers: 'the Ethics of Publishing, dissemination and communication of research'. 5 March 2021.
- ISMPP Annual Meeting'. 12-14 April 2021.
- STM Spring Conference, 27-29 April 2021.
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COPE Digest Editor:
Nancy C Chescheir, MD, Emeritus Editor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
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