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What Can Journalists do to Uncover Scientific Misconduct?

On June 25th 2012, 250 science journalists and press officers gathered at the Royal Society, London for the bi-annual UK Conference of Science Journalists (UKCSJ). These regular global and UK science journalist conferences provide a good forum for Wiley’s publicity team to meet the journalists we correspond with, to build relationships with them, and to…

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Our Voices in Our Industry

Well over 100 Wiley employees are active in publishing industry organizations, working on everything from technical issues and copyright enforcement to environmental concerns, publishing ethics, and serving the handicapped and the economically disadvantaged. “Our involvement brings multiple benefits,” says Emily Gillingham, Director, Library and Institutional Marketing, Wiley-Blackwell, who has participated in such activity and tracked…

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Chris Graf joins COPE Council

The council of the Committee on Publication Ethics appointed Chris Graf as a new council member. Chris joins the COPE team, which has just launched its new presence online at http://publicationethics.org/, to support the editors and journals that are COPE members. COPE’s membership exploded to more than 5000 journals in recent months thanks, in part,…

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Addressing Conflict of Interest Issues

Annette Flanagin, Managing Deputy Editor of JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), gave a presentation on conflicts of interest, sponsorship of research to be published in biomedical journals, and policies to help journals maintain their integrity during the Blackwell Executive Seminar last summer. Parts of her presentation are excerpted and summarized below, According to…

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