2016 SSP 38th Annual Meeting
Concurrent 5F: Publishing Ethics in Challenging Times…
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Concurrent 5F: Publishing Ethics in Challenging Times: An Overview of Issues and Strategies to Address Complex Integrity and Ethics issues
This session will focus on the increasingly complex ethical issues being faced in scholarly publishing and give an overview of how the field of publication ethics has changed over the past decade.Topics covered will include: ramifications of unethical conduct, emergent issues, complex allegations, vigilance by third parties in alleging wrong-doing, retroactive post-publication reviews by third parties, and more. The ethical requirement to keep the scientific record as objective and sound, an honorable goal for all scholars and academic publishers, will be discussed along with what accountability and responsibility means in ethical publishing today.
Moderator: Adam Etkin, President, Etkin Consulting
Twitter Handle: @adametkin
Speakers
Jason Roberts, Origin Editorial
Jason Roberts is a Senior Partner at Origin Editorial, an editorial office services and peer review management company that has grown to include a staff of over 50 Managing Editors and Editorial Assistants, dispersed globally. He is also the Executive Editor of the journal, Headache as well as a past president of the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors, an organization dedicated to advancing professionalism in editorial offices. Dr. Roberts is committed to educating all publishing stakeholders on publication ethics and the implementation of robust ethics policies. He is also working closely with the EQUATOR Network to provide resources for journals, editors and publishers to implement policies that encourage improved reporting standards in an effort to ensure journals more rigorously validate papers and provide readers with the information they need to potentially replicate a study.
Twitter Handle: @robertsjasonl
Twitter Handle: @robertsjasonl
Deborah Poff, Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences
Dr. Deborah Poff is Executive Vice-President and Provost at Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences in British Columbia. Previously she was President and Vice-Chancellor of Brandon University. From 1994 to 2004, she was Vice-President Academic and Provost at the University of Northern British Columbia. In 2004, she was a Fellow in Public Policy at the Sheldon Chumir Foundation in Ethical Leadership. She is Co-founder and founding Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Academic Ethics. She is Editor of Business Ethics in Canada, and Section editor on Business and Economic Ethics of the Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, (Elsevier). In 2013, she co-edited Citation Classics from the Journal of Business Ethics: Celebrating the First Thirty Years of Publication (Springer). She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics, forthcoming, (Springer). She serves as a Trustee on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).