STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of its Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK). The global publisher launched this online resource at Elsevier Editors' Conference in Singapore.
PERK is an online resource which contains links to Elsevier and non-Elsevier policy and procedures documents, decision trees and flow charts for dealing with different forms of publishing ethics abuse with the recommended action that can be followed, as well as COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) charts for a second opinion. It also contains examples of appropriate letters for various situations and a large resource of useful information structured in the form of Questions and Answers.
In the past months, Elsevier has been the first major scientific publisher to commit to full membership for all its publications in COPE. Also, it is one of six scientific publishers participating in the CrossRef Association's pilot plagiarism software called CrossCheck. By launching the Publishing Ethics Resource Kit, the publisher seeks to improve its efforts even more to meet this responsibility.
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