The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the international trade association for scholarly and professional publishers, has announced that it is conducting a one day workshop on Ethical Publishing - a guide for biomedical journal publishers & editors. The event, scheduled for October 22 at Mayfair Conference Centre, London, is organised by ALPSP in association with COPE.
The workshop will provide a 'how to..' guide to ethical publishing. Speakers will highlight the key ethical issues that biological, biomedical, and clinical journals should consider. They will address the process of implementing such policies, including how to decide if adopting a specific policy is right for your journal, how to do it, what the implications are, and how to communicate your policies to your authors and readers. This workshop will not be covering issues of breaches of publication ethics, as these are addressed by COPE.
The workshop is aimed at the academic editors of peer-reviewed scientific journals and managing editors (journal editors, executive editors) and editorial directors of such journals or groups of journals at publishing houses. Key speakers include Sabine Kleinert, Senior Executive Editor, The Lancet; Jeremy Theobald, Executive Editor, Health Threats Forum; Ginny Barbour, PLoS Medicine; Mandy Hill, Oxford University Press; and Doug Altman, Equator.
The ALPSP has over 350 organisational members in 37 countries who collectively publish over 10,000 journals as well as books, databases and other products. The association seeks to connect, train and inform the scholarly and professional publishing community and to be an advocate on behalf of the non-profit publishing sector.
