Guidelines on good publication practice

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): guidelines on good publication practice.

Committee on Publication Ethics. The COPE Report 1999. Guidelines on good publication practice.

Why the guidelines were developed COPE was founded in 1997 to address breaches of research and publication ethics. A voluntary body providing a discussion forum and advice for scientific editors, it aims to find practical ways of dealing with the issues, and to develop good practice. We thought it essential to attempt to define best practice in the ethics of scientific publishing. These guideli...

Good publication practice for pharmaceutical companies.

Guidelines on Good Publication Practice (GPP) for pharmaceutical companies are presented. The aim of the guidelines is to ensure that clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies are published in a responsible and ethical manner. The guidelines cover companies' responsibility to an endeavour to publish results of all studies, companies' relations with investigators, measures to prevent...

Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics: a Publisher's Perspective

These Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics describe Blackwell Publishing's position on the major ethical principles of academic publishing and review factors that may foster ethical behavior or create problems. The aims are to encourage discussion, to initiate changes where they are needed, and to provide practical guidance, in the form of Best Practice statements, to inform these cha...

Identifying and using good practice guidelines.

Performance measurement and payment are increasingly linked to goals established by practice guidelines. The best guidelines are based on systematic reviews and patient-oriented evidence, use an evidence-rating system such as the Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy, and are prospectively validated. The guidelines also should have a transparent development process, identify potential conflicts o...