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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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Jennifer Beal By
Communications Project Manager

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Societies Research

Retractions are Increasing, but are they really “Skyrocketing”?

According to a headline in International Business Times, “Fraud and errors in scientific studies skyrocket”. That’s an attention-grabbing verb, but it isn’t borne out by the facts. The headline refers to an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Mistakes in scientific studies surge”*. The WSJ based its article on a report that it commissioned…

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Director of Planning & Development

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CrossCheck / iThenticate – An Update

iThenticate’s CrossCheck service, a CrossRef initiative, is an online indexed database, currently consisting of 24 million articles from over 40,000 journals from more than 60 publishers.  It provides a powerful tool for Editorial Offices in both detecting and preventing instances of plagiarism by authors. Users can upload manuscripts to check content against CrossCheck’s database and…

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Project Manager, Content Management Services

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Piracy, Fraud, and Other Challenges for Publishers

Piracy and subscription fraud pose significant challenges to the publishing industry, especially in the digital world, where the illegitimate use of copyrighted materials is pervasive.  One-off illegitimate copies of copyrighted material can be found all over the internet, but the greatest challenge comes from systematic piracy facilitated by file-sharing sites. These sites come in a…

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Legal Advisor

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CrossCheck Implementation Supports Detection of Plagiarism

CrossCheck, a CrossRef initiative, is an online indexed database consisting of millions of articles from over 60 publishers, providing a powerful tool for Editorial Offices in both detecting and preventing instances of plagiarism by authors.  Users can upload manuscripts to check content against CrossCheck’s database and results are displayed in an easy-to-read color coded format.…

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Project Manager, Content Management Services

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Retractions in Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Article retractions are apparently on the increase, as indicated by a report late last year in the Times Higher Education (THES).  To retract an article in a journal is a policy of last resort, once all other possible avenues have been explored.  As stated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the main purpose of…

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Allen Stevens By
Editorial Director, Health Sciences

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ALPSP Seminar on Plagiarism Detection and Management

A recent one-day seminar organized by ALPSP (the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) focused on a very topical issue: plagiarism detection and management. It was an interesting and very full day, so it’s only possible here to give a brief overview. Audio files of the presentations and the slides are available on the…

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Managing Editor, The Plant Journal

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Maintaining the Version of Record: Wiley-Blackwell Retraction Policy

Background Fuelled by some recent high-profile cases (see http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;303/5664/1669), much media attention has been focused on the issue of plagiarism and other cases of infringement. The widespread availability of academic articles on the Internet has made identification easier; while products such as CrossCheck (see http://wwwjp.blackwellpublishing.com/bw/journalnews/newsitem.asp?release=2348) have been developed to assist editors identify potential infringements. Wiley-Blackwell…

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Edward Wates By
Vice President & Director, Global Journals Content Management

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Wiley-Blackwell: CrossCheck for Journal Titles

CrossCheck is a CrossRef initiative to provide tools for the prevention of scholarly and professional plagiarism. There are two elements to CrossCheck: the database and the originality (plagiarism) detection tool (iThenticate software provided by iParadigm): The database contains indexed published content from CrossCheck members. (For a full list of members see: http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck_members.html) The originality detection…

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Project Manager, Social Science & Humanitites

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Policy on Retraction of Articles and Post-publication Changes to the Online Record

IntroductionIt is not uncommon to receive requests from authors or editors to alter the content of an article once it has been published online, either as a result of an infringement or as a result of changes that have been identified after proof correction has been carried out. The following notes outline Blackwell Publishing’s policy…

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Edward Wates By
Vice President & Director, Global Journals Content Management

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