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Dear Digest Readers,
The last week in September was a very busy one for COPE. We began our week of meetings in Leiden with the European Seminar and had 84 members in attendance. The theme on daily realities and future challenges was just that. We focused on a number of daily realities for our members.
Highlights included an excellent presentation on text recycling by Cary Moskovitz, David Hansen and Michael Pemberton, a session on retractions which included an update on COPE’s newly revised retraction guidelines from Council member Howard Browman, a presentation on the Scientometrics of retractions from Thed van Leeuwen, and a presentation from a publisher’s perspective on retraction by Catriona Fennell. I did a presentation on predatory publishing. I want to thank everyone for their feedback on my session and have sent out my powerpoint to everyone who requested the slides. Deborah Kahn presented an overview of the study we completed this past year on our members in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. An unusual treat for attendees was a presentation by Frank van Koffschooten, a journalist, who shared his 25 year experience as a journalist working on publication ethics violations.
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COPE Chair Deborah Poff
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DATA FABRICATION IN A REJECTED MANUSCRIPT
A journal rejected two manuscripts because of data fabrication, as confirmed by an inspection of the original patient data. Without the lead author knowing, the co-authors had fabricated the dataset after recruiting only a few patients. The lead author was cleared of misconduct in an institutional investigation but later published one of the manuscripts and other suspicious manuscripts in other journals.
In this case discussion Trevor Lane shares advice given by the COPE Forum, adds to the discussion with further analysis and links to guidance relevant to all disciplines.
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UPDATED AUTHORSHIP DISCUSSION DOCUMENT
COPE's Authorship Discussion Document provides practical advice on addressing the most common issues around authorship with specific guidance where there seems to be consensus and asking for further comments from COPE members in some areas.
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THANK YOU AND FAREWELL
We say a fond farewell to six of our Council Members who have reached the end of their term with COPE and thank them for all the work they have done over the years.
Thank you Vivienne Bachelet, Mirjam Curno, Jason Hu, Iria del Río, Behrooz Astaneh and Alison Taylor.
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A new training programme to help researchers avoid predatory publishers, mixed levels of tolerance to text recycling amongst editors in North America, and a portable peer review platform due to launch this winter.
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Predatory Publishing
The US National Science Foundation has awarded researchers at Texas Tech University a grant to develop a training program for researchers to learn to identify and avoid predatory publishers. The goal is for the program to be free and online.
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Research Misconduct
Interviews with journal editors in North America show a wide-range of tolerance for Text Recycling, from tolerance to absolute intolerance. The authors surmise in the abstract that the editors at times have trouble aligning their beliefs and practices.
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Peer Review
In December 2019, Review Commons will be launched where authors can post their work prior to submission to a traditional journal and it will undergo "high-quality and in-depth peer review". The reviews, through bioRxiv, can be transferred to participating journals. www.reviewcommons.org
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NOVEMBER FORUM: SUBMIT A CASE
MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019: WEBINAR
4 - 5.30pm GMT
(COPE Members Only)
The November Forum will follow the usual format where we have a discussion topic, followed by members' cases presented for discussion and advice from all those participating in the Forum. The discussion topic for the Forum in November: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in decision making.
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COPE WORKSHOP CHILE
COPE hosted a workshop at the IV Scientific Editor’s Forum at the Universidad de Los Lagos, in Santiago, Chile, facilitated by Vivienne C. Bachelet (editor-in-chief of Medwave and Associate professor of Universidad de Santiago de Chile) and Iria del Río (editor of Revista Española de Cardiología).
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COPE WORKSHOP NORWAY
26 NOVEMBER 2019
In the run up to the Munin conference on scholarly publishing, COPE is holding a pre-conference workshop on peer review for editors, expertly run by COPE Council members Howard Browman and Mirjam Curno. The workshop is at University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, campus Breivika.
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JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (JST) and INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STM PUBLISHERS
21 October 2019
TOKYO, JAPAN
Trevor Lane, COPE Council, will speak on behalf of COPE at this event themed, "The transformation in scholarly publishing: Research integrity and publication ethics."
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CHARLESTON CONFERENCE
4 - 8 November 2019
CHARLESTON, USA
COPE will be speaking about publication ethics challenges in arts, humanities, and social sciences and what this means for librarians. Also in this session, giving different perspectives on the issues, are Jennie McMillan, Taylor and Francis, and Claire Sewell, Cambridge University Library.
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MEDICAL JOURNAL EDITORS SHORT COURSE
13 - 15 November 2019
OXFORD, UK
This international workshop is designed to help editors ensure their journals achieve the maximum impact with the best research.
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COPE Digest Editors:
Deborah Kahn, Publishing Director, Taylor & Francis
Nancy C Chescheir, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Obstetrics and Gynecology
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